The closurewill affect about 20 employees at the Stavanger-based operation, some of whomhave been given new jobs at the Aker Well Services unit at another location nearNorway’s oil capital.

It will becarried out once current contracts are completed, with the leak metering skidsoperation already transferred to the well service outfit.

Explaingthe reason for the move, an Aker Solutions spokesman informed Upstream: “Wehave been unable to make the Norwegian process services operation a robust andprofitable business.

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