GL Today
Today Germanischer Lloyd serves from a global network of 176 offices in 80 countries, employing some 7000 people. 124 flag states have authorized GL to perform statutory duties. According to annually published Port State Control statistics, Germanischer Lloyd has been ranking amongst the top classification societies.
Since the acquisition of GL by Günter Herz, the group has expanded its activities in the energy markets. The acquisitions of Advantica (UK) in 2007 and Trident (Malaysia) in 2008 has broadened the service scope to consultancy services in the oil and gas sectors. The merger with Noble Denton(UK) in 2009 further expanded its activities in offshore technical services and the acquisitions of PVI(Canada) in 2007, MCS (US) in 2008 and IRS (Singapore) in 2009 grew its inspection business.
In the oil & gas business segment Germanischer Lloyd's range of services now covers all major asset types including oil and gas exploration and production assets like rigs, drill ships or FPSOs, storage facilities, sub sea technology, LNG terminals, pipelines as well as gas, electricity and water distribution networks. The Group offers certification, inspection and consulting services as well as software solutions for the installation, operation and decommissioning phase. Typical project are owners engineering services, marine warranty services, due diligence studies, risk & safety work, integrity management, flow assurance studies, front end engineering services or third party certification work. As of 1.1.2010 the oil & gas business operates under the brand GL Noble Denton.
In the renewables segment, GL acquired Helimax (Canada) in 2007, Windtest (Germany) in 2008 and merged with Garrad Hassan (UK) in 2009 making it the world's largest renewable energy consultancy with more than 600 dedicated engineers providing technical consulting services to the onshore and offshore wind, wave, tidal and solar industries. It is active in 18 countries with the major bases in the UK, US, Canada, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Italy, India and China.
Its services include wind turbine type certification, design consultancy, energy yield assessments, project management, site assessments, permitting, front end engineering, due diligence, software solutions for wind parks, solar plants and turbine design, wind and solar forecasting and renewable plant operations improvement services.
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