Songa selects IFS Applications for Offshore Service

IFS, the global enterprise applications company, has announced that Songa Offshore, an international midwater drilling contractor active in the North Atlantic basin, has chosen to deploy IFS Applications™ for Offshore Service to support its onshore and offshore operations.

The contract includes licenses and services worth approximately Nkr 40 million ($6.7 mln USD).

Songa Offshore operates five semi-submersible drilling units with an additional four rigs being delivered in 2014 and 2015. The company chose IFS Applications to support onshore and offshore operations within maintenance, supply chain, project management, and financials. The solution also features support for replication and document management.

“We chose IFS Applications because it offered us a comprehensive and proven industry solution that could standardize our business processes,” CEO Songa Offshore Bjørnar Iversen said. “We are convinced that IFS Applications will support and make our operations even more efficient and robust.”

“This important customer win confirms IFS’s leading position in the oil and gas industry as well as our long track record of delivering integrated industry solutions to offshore drilling contractors,” said Glenn Arnesen, CEO, IFS Scandinavia. “We are pleased to support Songa Offshore’s strategy to become a robust and NCS-focused company and look forward to a long and mutually rewarding relationship.”

IFS expects the customer to go live with the solution at end of 2014.

Press Release, March 10, 2014