Hunting plc
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| Public (LSE: HTG) | |
| Industry | Energy |
| Founded | 1874 |
| Headquarters | London, UK and Houston. USA |
Key people |
Richard Hunting, Chairman Dennis Proctor, CEO |
| Revenue | £1,386.5 million (2014)[1] |
| £217.8 million (2014)[1] | |
| £73.2 million (2014)[1] | |
Number of employees | 4,044 (2014)[1] |
| Website | www.huntingplc.com |
Hunting plc is a British-based supplier to the oil and gas industry. Some 27% of the business is owned by the Hunting family.[2] It is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
History
The business was founded in 1874 by Charles Hunting, a veterinary surgeon, as a shipping business.[3] The business, originally known as Hunting & Pattison, was managed by the founder's son, Charles Samuel Hunting, and comprised two sailing ships, the Genii and the Sylvia.[4] In the 1890s the company invested in oil tankers and became a tanker broker.[5]
In the 1930s and 1940s, it diversified into aircraft maintenance and manufacturing as well as air transport, establishing Hunting Aircraft in 1944 by the purchase of Percival Aircraft: this business was absorbed into the British Aircraft Corporation in 1959.[6]
At the end of 1945, Hunting entered the airline business and established Hunting Air Travel Ltd, a business headquartered at Luton Airport.[7] The new airline began commercial operations from Bovingdon Airport at the start of 1946. In 1951, Hunting Air Travel changed its name to Hunting Air Transport. Another change of name occurred in late-1953, when Hunting Air Transport became Hunting-Clan Air Transport. This change of name resulted from the Hunting family's decision to split the group and to transfer their airline business to a new holding company which they had set up together with the Scottish Clan Line, a rival shipping company owned by the Cayzer family.[8]
In June 1998, Hunting Cargo Airlines was sold to a consortium consisting of CMB (Belgium) and Safair (part of the Imperial Group) and rechristened ACL (Air Contractors Limited).[9]
In the 1990s, Hunting became involved in defence contracts, notably, in 1993, being a member of the winning consortium contracted to manage the Atomic Weapons Establishment, a contract that lasted until 2003.[10] More recently, it refocused on its core oil and gas activities.[11]
In December 2008, it completed the disposal of Gibson Energy, its operation transporting and marketing crude oil in Canada, for a total consideration of £517m.[12] On 16 August 2010, Hunting PLC announces the acquisition of Innova-Extel Acquisition Holdings Inc. for a cash consideration of US$125 million.[13] On 5 August 2011 Hunting announced the acquisition of Titan Group for $775 million.[14] On 12 August 2011 Hunting announced the acquisition of Dearborn Precision Tubular Products for US83.5 million.[15]
Current operations
Hunting’s Well Construction Platform provides products and services to the oil and gas industry during the construction phase of the wellbore development. Hunting’s Well Completion platform provides products and services to the Oil and Gas industry that support the completion and re-completion phases of wellbore development. Hunting’s Well Intervention platform provides products and services to the Oil and Gas industry that support the Intervention and Subsea support phases of wellbore production and maintenance.
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Full Year Results 2014" (PDF). Hunting plc. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ↑ "cbcf.com". cbcf.com. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ↑ Hunting says no to Duke Street Daily Telegraph, 15 September 2000
- ↑ "Gibsons". gibsons.co.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ↑ Hunting plc: Heritage
- ↑ "Our Businesses - BAE Systems". baesystems.com. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ↑ Dix, Barry (15 January 2009). "Fly Past: A hunting we will go". The Hounslow Chronicle.
- ↑ "air transport - hunting air - aircraft services - 1954 - 0089 - Flight Archive". flightglobal.com. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ↑ About us - History. ASL Aviation- official website
- ↑ "Relicensing the Atomic". hse.gov.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ↑ What is the point of innovation in pressure regulator design? Energy International, November 2008
- ↑ Hunting sells Gibson Energy unit for £626 million Forbes, 6 August 2008
- ↑ Hunting acquires Innova-Extel for $125m CEOWORLD Magazine, 16 August 2010
- ↑ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-08-05/hunting-buys-titan-for-775m-for-shale-oil
- ↑ Hunting buys Dearborn for $85m Upstream, 15 August 2011
Sources
- "Flight International". Sutton, UK: Reed Business Information. ISSN 0015-3710. (various backdated issues relating to Hunting Air Travel, Hunting Air Transport and Hunting-Clan Air Transport, 1946-1960)
