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Aker Verdal AS

Type	Subsidiary
Founded	1970
Headquarters	Verdal, Norway
Key people	Helge Støre Rosenlund (CEO)
Industry	Shipyard
Products	Jackets
Revenue	▲ NOK 1,016 million (2005)
Employees	700 (2006)
Parent	Aker Kværner
Website	www.akerverdal.no

Aker Verdal AS formerly known as Aker Kværner Verdal is a construction yard for large steel constructions and substructures for offshore oil platforms. A subsidiary, in business matters is an entity that is controlled by a bigger and more powerful entity Verdal is a municipality in the county of Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" Shipyards and dockyards are places which repair and build ships These can be Yachts military In Marketing, a product is anything that can be offered to a Market that might satisfy a want or need In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services The krone ( sign: kr; code: NOK) is the Currency of Norway. The plural form is kroner. Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. A holding company is a company that owns part all or a majority of other companies' outstanding Stock. Aker Solutions ASA ( is a Norwegian multinational provider of services related to Engineering, Construction, maintenance, A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Aksjeselskap is the Norwegian term for a Stock -based Company. Shipyards and dockyards are places which repair and build ships These can be Yachts military Steel is an Alloy consisting mostly of Iron, with a Carbon content between 0 In Universal algebra, an (induced substructure or (induced subalgebra is a structure whose domain is a subset of that of a bigger structure and An oil platform or oil rig is a large structure used to house workers and machinery needed to drill and/or extract oil and Natural gas through wells The yard is owned by Aker Solutions and is located in Verdal in Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Aker Solutions ASA ( is a Norwegian multinational provider of services related to Engineering, Construction, maintenance, Verdal is a municipality in the county of Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. is a county in the central Norwegian region called Trøndelag. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional

The yard was opened in 1970 and was owned by the Aker Group until the offshore section was demerged to Aker Martime. After the merge between Kværner and Aker Martime in 2005 the yard changed its name to Aker Kværner Verdal when it was taken over by Aker Kværner, but changed its name back to Aker Verdal in 2008 with the corporate name change to Aker Solutions. Kværner was a Norway -based Engineering and Construction services company in existence between 1853 and 2005 when it was merged Aker Solutions ASA ( is a Norwegian multinational provider of services related to Engineering, Construction, maintenance, Since 1975 Aker Verdal has delivered 33 jackets as well as bridges, flare towers, loading bouys, modules and decks as well as subsea templates have been delivered. A bridge is a Structure built to span a Gorge, Valley, Road, railroad track, River, Body of water gas flare or flare stack is an elevated vertical stack or Chimney found on Oil wells or oil rigs, and in refineries The yard has Europe's largest fleet of cranes. A crane is a lifting machine equipped with a Winder, Wire ropes or Chains and sheaves that can be used both to lift and lower materials and to

The company has five wholly owned subsidiaries: Aker Cold Bending, Aker Jacket Technology, Aker FDV, Aker Industributikk and Aker Sakkyndig Virksomhet. The company has ventured into fields including cold bending and construction of offshore mounts for wind mills. A windmill is a machine that is powered by the energy of the wind The company is cooperating with Nord-Trøndelag Elektrisitetsverk and ScanWind to construct land-based wind mills. Nord-Trøndelag Elektrisitetsverk or NTE is a Power company serving Nord-Trøndelag in Norway and owned by Nord-Trøndelag county ScanWind is a Norwegian manufacturing company that produces Windmills The company has its head office in Trondheim and production facilities in Verdal

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