Claxton Engineering Ltd

Claxton Engineering
Private limited (Non-trading)
Industry Oil and gas engineering services
Founded Great Yarmouth, England (1985)
Headquarters Great Yarmouth, England, United Kingdom
Area served
Global
Key people
Laura Claxton, Managing Director
Revenue £33,000,000[1] (2009)
Number of employees
135 (2016)
Website http://www.claxtonengineering.com/

Claxton Engineering Services Ltd is an engineering and service company registered in the United Kingdom and has its headquarters in Great Yarmouth, UK, with offices also in Norway, Singapore and the UAE.

Claxton, an Acteon company, leads the way in jack up engineering and services across the life of the asset – from pre-drilling to drilling, production and decommissioning. All services are backed up by a world class in-house projects team and design-led engineering capability.

The company is an accredited and registered organisation with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.[2]

History

Claxton was founded in Great Yarmouth in 1985[3] and in addition to its headquarters has operations bases in Aberdeen, UK and in Dubai, UAE. In 1999 Claxton became part of Acteon Group Ltd.

Claxton has supplied drilling risers for many major projects around the world [4][5][6] and has achieved safety milestones for its operations.[7] Some of the company’s projects involve developing new components for the oil and gas industry, for example, technical innovations for drilling risers.[8]

Claxton has received several industry awards, including the Queen's Award for Export Achievement (1998) and the Spirit of Enterprise Great Engineering Company Award (2009).[9][10]

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