ASCO manages and operates oil and gas supply bases in Europe and the Americas for most of the world's leading oil and gas companies. Apache, BP, Canadian Superior Energy Inc., Centrica, ConocoPhilips, ExxonMobil, Marathon, Nexen, PetroCanada, Shell, Talisman, Total and Repsol are all current users of ASCO's base management services.

Increasingly, we're also supporting a number of independent operators like ADTI, ATP and Perenco - providing customised supply chain solutions that meet their specific needs.

Most of our bases support offshore operations - no surprise, given our North Sea heritage. But we are now also pioneering the concept of onshore supply bases to support our clients on the burgeoning Alberta oil sands.

To meet the multi-faceted challenges of running successful supply bases, we employ a diverse range of managerial and professional talent. In ASCO, you'll find teams that blend skills in materials, marine, warehouse, inventory, transport, quayside, facilities, IT, environmental and operations management.

You'll also find a comprehensive suite of systems and processes that are tried and tested in the field and have benefited from our experience of working with the world's leading oil and gas companies.

Like our clients, we are aware that we operate in an industry that presents many dangers to life and limb, to assets and to the environment. We take our health and safety responsibilities extremely seriously and invest significant time, effort and money in our health and safety personnel, systems and behavioural programmes.

Our approach to service delivery is highly flexible. You can select a single service, or you can combine a range of services to create a unique package tailored to your needs. Our principal services are:

- Materials management and co-ordination
- Critical spares management
- Warehouse management and operations
- Pipeyard management and operations
- Provision and management of CCU fleets
- Quayside management and operations
- Cargo handling
- Heavy lift management and implementation
- Fuels, lubricants and bulk materials supply
- Environmental services
- Controlled and specialist waste handling
- Tank cleaning and drill cutting remediation
- Base transport management
- Customs and excise liaison and dues collection
- Marine scheduling and planning
- Contract personnel
- Base HSEQ management
- Base security management
- Management of catering and cleaning services
- Base procurement services
- Development and management of base IT systems

Operating Procedures

During nearly four decades of supporting the oil and gas industry, ASCO has developed a comprehensive suite of procedures which support our base management activities.

Systems

Recognising that most of our clients run their supply chain operations on SAP, we have developed a strong corporate capability in this dominant operation system. Throughout ASCO you will find our people accessing and operating our clients SAP systems in a seamless fashion.

In addition to our SAP capability, we utilise a range of systems to support specific parts of our base management operations. Some of these are off the shelf packages adapted to meet our needs and others are unique solutions developed by the ASCO IT team.

Below you will find some of the systems that we operate throughout the world:

Future Developments

ASCO are continually looking to develop the Information systems utilised and to examine innovative ways of introducing sophisticated new technology into our operations, this is done with the sole intention of making our operations more efficient and cost effective for our clients.  Some examples of future developments are below.

• Introduction of IRIS to Southern North Sea Operations
• Introduction/development of web-based heli-freight tracking system (online manifests, certification and delivery notes)
• Electronic proof of delivery system for road transportation
• GPS road transport tracking
• Upgrade of Mepaw to C2C by early 2008