Haven Den Helder

With branches in Rotterdam, Lauwersoog and Den Oever, SAM Electronics Nederland is a leading supplier of ship electronics. The company’s products include navigation and communication equipment, energy and automation systems, bridge consoles and cable sealing systems. The company is also active in the maintenance and repair of the devices and systems it provides. To be able to respond rapidly in the event of breakdowns, the company operates a warehouse with a wide range of spare parts. SAM Electronics also supplies simulation systems, electric motors, generators, switchgear, monitoring systems, and oil discharge and measurement systems.

Sandfirden Technics provides its customers with the most reliable equipment, based on long lasting technology. The company represents a number of renowned foreign engine manufacturing companies, like Scania from Sweden (diesel engines), and Sisu Diesel from Finland (diesel engines). Sandfirden Technics also represents Becker-Heracles (flap rudders), Hatlapa (steering gear), Steerprop (azimuth thrusters), Automarine (heavy-oil booster modules) and Omnipure (sewage treatment plant). Furthermore, the company is specialised in manufacturing marine generator sets and gas engines. Customers are the offshore, shipping, fishing and dredging industries and the yacht-building sector.

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The Alkmaar-based Scientific Drilling Controls is the Dutch branch of Scientific Drilling from Houston, Texas, USA. Scientific Drilling is a pioneer in the field of the development of downhole navigation systems. The company has developed cutting-edge systems for survey, production logging and directional drilling. The business operates worldwide and expends considerable effort in research and development, resulting time and again in new, innovative products. In Europe, the company has branches in Aberdeen (Scotland), Bergen (Norway) and Alkmaar (Netherlands).

SeaMar Services and SeaMar Shipping are members of the SeaMar Group of Companies. SeaMar Services has a wide range of experience in agency, logistics and management services and offers an all-round service package for the offshore and shipping industries. The company has locations in Den Helder (head office), Velsen Noord and Norwich (UK) and operates in any other part of the Netherlands.

SeaMar Shipping and SeaMar Services are members of the SeaMar Group of Companies. SeaMar Shipping has been launched in order to conduct a wide range of specialised services for the offshore industry, such as air diving support, survey work, geophysical and geotechnical support and ROV operations. Furthermore, SeaMar Shipping is engaged in crewing, vessel management, vessel brokerage and vessel inspection services.

Serv-all International is a Den Helder-based employment agency that is active primarily for companies in the shipping, offshore and dredging industries. The company ensures that the right specialists are employed. These can be captains, helmsmen, maritime officers (marof''s), seamen and cooks. In addition, Serv-All International provides support services in the area of ship management, personnel management and salary administration. The company is recognised by the Flex-keur foundation and is member of the NBBU, the Dutch Union of Intermediary and Employment agencies.

Smart Gas Pockets Opportunities (SGPO) has set itself the goal to research and promote the development of small gas reservoirs (gas pockets) in an environmentally-sound and cost-efficient manner. SGPO is also a shareholder in Smart Gas Pockets Development BV, in turn shareholder in Smart Energy Solutions BV. The latter company, based in Amsterdam, has been awarded two concessions, one of which is onshore and goes by the name Oosterwolde, and the other is an offshore concession in block Q7 on the Dutch Continental Shelf.

Sierra Instruments BV is the Dutch subsidiary of Sierra Instruments, The Mass Flow Company from Monterey, California, USA, and operates as the European Sales and Service Division. Sierra Instruments has established a reputation with the fabrication of high-quality electronic mass flow meters and mass flow controllers for practically any gas, liquid or steam application. Customers for these products include laboratories and the oil and gas industry. As well as an excellent sales system, Sierra Instruments also has a worldwide-operating service division.

The foundation stones for Sinus Jevi Electric Heating were laid on 1922. The company, that today is part of the Swedish Nibe Group and collaborates closely with the Danish company Jevi A/S, has considerable experience in the design, engineering and manufacture of electric heating systems and elements. Best-known are the explosion-proof heating devices also used in the oil and gas industry. Customers for these products include Aramco, Lukoil, Total, Statoil, Exxon, NAM, Wintershall and platform builders like Heerema Fabricage Group and HSM Steel Structures.

Skyline Aviation, launched in 1992, uses Den Helder Airport as its operating base. The company offers charter, excursion and business flights and special-assignment flights such as air target towing flights for the Netherlands Ministry of Defence for testing air defence systems. Skyline Aviation disposes of experienced pilots and two L39 Albatros jets and a Learjet. In December 2003 Skyline Aviation acquired their Air Operators Certificate (AOC). This certificate enables the company to charge for the transport of passenger and freight throughout Europe. At Den Helder Airport the company also performs maintenance on planes.

Located at Den Helder Airport.

Slot Maritiem Holding is a Den Helder-based ship-owning company providing a wide range of services to the offshore oil and gas industry on the North Sea. The company owns three vessels Jason II, Mary Ann I and Sursum Corda, all specially equipped for doing chase (cable guard) work, survey and safety standby work. The areas served by the ships of Slot Maritiem Holding are the Dutch, British, German and Danish sector of the North Sea. The company has many years of experience in serving the offshore oil and gas and cable laying industries.

Since the end of 2006 Smit Constructie Werkplaats has been based at the Kooypunt industrial park in Den Helder in a modern business premises, which in addition to its offices also has a large construction and repair workshop. The company, which was set up in 1932, is specialised in designing and constructing steel, stainless steel and aluminium products. A great deal of work is carried out for companies in the offshore industry, including oil companies and their suppliers. Other customers of the products are shipping companies, the Netherlands Royal Navy, industrial businesses, government and private individuals. The company also carries out the transport and assembly of the products, for both onshore and offshore.

Smith Bits is a business unit of Smith International Nederland BV, which in turn is part of Smith Technologies based in Houston, USA. Smith Bits is a world leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of drill bits for oil and gas exploration. The headquarters of Smith Bits are located in Houston Texas. The company, like Advanced Materials and SII Neyrfor, is one of the operating units of Smith Technologies. Together they provide an array of products and services to the oil and gas industry, onshore and offshore.

The Southern North Sea (SNS) Pool is a vessel-sharing arrangement of eight operators active on the Dutch Continental Shelf. The SNS Pool started on 1 January 2002 after a merger of the Ymond Pool, a vessel-sharing scheme of five operators operating out of Velsen Noord, and the Northern Pool where two operators shared vessels out of Den Helder. The SNS Pool operates from the Offshore Service & Logistics Centre at the Paleiskade in the seaport of Den Helder. Peterson Supplylink manages the pool operations and is also responsible for the chartering of the platform supply vessels.

Den Helder-headquartered Solids Control Services Environmental is engaged in work mainly pertaining to mud control, solids control, oil-based cuttings cleaning, water treatment, and conveying systems. The company maintains its own fleet of equipment and provides services through its own organisation of technicians. The firm''s operating area includes the entire North Sea region, Europe, Africa and South East Asia.

The transhipment company of Spaansen in Den Helder is part of Spaansen Transportbedrijf BV, which in turn is part of the Spaansen Groep from Winkel. Spaansen Transportbedrijf in the province of North Holland has a complete series of storage and transhipment centres, a large fleet of trucks, trailing suction hopper dredgers for the suction of sand at sea, barges for sand suction in the Wadden Sea and the IJsselmeer and a number of flat-bottom crafts. The transhipment company in Den Helder was acquired in 1976 from a local contractor and since then has been intensively used for the storage and transhipment of sand, gravel and shells.