Guardian is delighted to welcome Adrian Harvey to the team as Training & Commissioning Technician.

Bill joined Guardian in October 2011 as Chairman to further strengthen and expand Guardians Board and the company’s management team.  Bills background is that of investment banking and he has been, and still is, Chairman of a number of companies both in the Banking sector and the Energy sector.

Guardian is delighted to welcome Jim Flood to the team as Sustaining Engineering Manager based in the head office in South Wales.  Jim brings with him many years of  Engineering Management experience in International companies and is a valuable addition to the Engineering team. Jim will mainly focus on the existing products Guardian offers to their clients, ensuring they continue to receive the highest level of quality and support they have become accustomed to.

We are delighted to confirm Aker Solutions'  Well Intervention Services department in Norway  has just placed a record order with Guardian to support their global tractor business expansion.  We would like to thank everyone at AWS for their continued business and look forward to working together for many years to come.

Guardian is delighted to welcome Ammar Rasul to the team as Technical Sales Engineer based at the head office in Wales. Ammar brings with him many years of experience in the Oil and Gas Industry and is a valuable addition to the Sales team. Ammar will mainly focus on the Middle east, North Africa and China markets. He will help ensure that clients receive the best standards of sales and support services in addition to the benefits from Guardians' highest technological levels.

Guardian is delighted to welcome Sahand Behnejad to the team as the Middle East Manager. Sahand brings with him 20 years of management experience of international service companies in the UK, Middle east and Africa. He has a successful track record of setting up and developing businesses in new geographic markets which has always been achieved through his total dedication to client satisfaction. In his new role, Sahand aims to ensure that clients in the Middle East receive the best standards of sales and support services available in the region in addition to the benefits from Guardian's highest technological levels.

Permian Basin Oil Show 2010

From the 19th to the 21st of October 2010, Guardian Global Technologies were exhibiting at the Permian Basin Oil Show in Odessa, Texas.

Adam Green (Training and Commissioning Engineer) and Lawrence Till (Sales Engineer) travelled out to Odessa where they met up with representatives from Titan Specialties with whom they were sharing a stand.

Guardian displayed a number of tools on the stand including an ART-H, MPP-B, IDC-B, PSJ-C and Production Logging Tools including the GCT and CFF.

Over the 3 days of the show, Guardian demonstrated the equipment to clients old and new, gaining a favourable response from interested parties.

When the event was over, the Guardian personnel followed up with interested clients by visiting their facilities in Dallas/Fort Worth and Houston to give more detailed presentations and demonstrations of the equipment, allowing the clients to gain some hands on experience.

Guardian Global Technologies would like to thank all the visitors to our booth and to those who showed an interest in our product range.

Guardian are pleased to announce that they are one of the sponsors at the upcoming 2011 Asia-Pacific Perforating Symposium on April 6-7, 2011  at the Nikko Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Due to the success of the 2010 International Perforating Symposium held in North America, an Asia-Pacific organizing committee has formed to hold a regional symposium early 2011. The two-day Perforating Symposium will focus on innovation and "new" technology and feature forum session presentations with speakers and session chairmen from the operator, service provider, manufacturing and software communities. There will also be a poster session followed by a reception to provide opportunity to network throughout the regional perforating community. The Asia-Pacific region includes (but is not limited to) Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, far-east Russian Federation, Thailand and Vietnam.

Symposium dates -- April 6-7, 2011
Symposium location -- Nikko Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Hotel accommodations can be booked directly with the Nikko Hotel at Tel: +60 3 2161 1111.
Mention the symposium when making your booking.
Room rates with breakfast are: Deluxe - RM 380; Premier - RM 440 and Executive - RM 590. (nett of local taxes (+15.5%))

Symposium Themes
Themes for the two-day symposium will include: Explosive Safety, Productivity Improvement Case Studies, Perforating Dynamics, Perforation Modeling, Perforator Testing and Novel Perforating Concepts. Regional focus will include: carbonates, coal bed methane, production testing, tight gas and through-tubing systems.

Guardian has recently developed a new Voltage Sensing Switch to allow operation of its range of Release Tools, Gun Brake Systems and Powered Swivel Joints with the RF safe perforating system (Dynawell)  available from DynaEnergetics in Germany.

http://www.dynaenergetics.com/en/dynawell/products_rf-safe_systems.html

The product is the VSS-H

As part of our continual drive to offer our clients a better service Guardian can now offer the the option of paying for goods or services via a credit card in our head office in Pyle in the UK. 

23rd March 2010

Guardian have today appointed Mr Fan Chunsheng as their exclusive agent for China.  Mr Chunsheng brings with him many years experience in supplying high quality oilfield products into the Chinese market and a proud history of providing an exceptional after sales service that is critical with high technologies.

Guardian and Mr Chunsheng look forward to meeting and exceeding the expectations of our clients and ensuring that they obtain maximum value out of their Guardian equipment.

7th June 2010

Guardian has completed the development of an additional 5,000 sq ft of office space in their Merlin House facility in Pyle, South Wales.  This was needed to accommodate the growth in sales, design and assembly departments required to support the year on year growth that the company has experienced in the last 36 months.

This expansion is the first phase in a 2 year, 3 phase expansion plan with the next stage being a new design and manufacturing complex which is expected to be completed within the next 9 months.

7th June 2010

Lawrence Till has joined Guardian from Schlumberger as a Sales Engineer based in the head office in Pyle, South Wales.  Lawrence brings with him many years of offshore experience and is a valuable addition to the sales team.  He will help ensure that as Guardian grows clients will still recieve the same high level of service and support that they both deserve and have become accustomed to.

13th October 2009

Guardian and Titan Specialties and Global have signed agreements to distribute and provide maintenance services for each company’s cased hole logging product lines. Titan will be a distributor for Guardian products in North and South America, and Guardian will be a distributor for Titan’s cased hole logging products in the Eastern hemisphere.

Ken Babcock, CEO of Titan, and Iain Maxted, Managing Director of Global Guardian, agreed that this is the beginning of a winning relationship between companies that have complementary product lines.

About Titan Specialties Ltd

Titan designs, manufactures and distributes perforating gun systems, shaped charges and electronic well-logging instrumentation. The company's products are used throughout North America and globally by the oilfield services industry. Titan has approximately 300 employees and has manufacturing facilities in Pampa, TX, Milford, TX and Tyler, TX. Additionally, the company has a network of 26 owned and independent distribution centers throughout the US and Canada. For more information on Titan Specialties, Ltd., see www.titanspecialties.com.

28th June 2010

In order to strengthen our manufacturing capability and maintain short delivery times Guardian has acquired a local machine shop.  This adds a further 6 machines to the existing 14 which include various CNC mills, lathes and spark eroders.

Keeping the manufacturing in house is part of Guardian's key strategy to ensure that we have complete control over quality and that low volume items required by clients can be manufactured promptly.  This is also key in the rapid prototyping and development programs that are required to meet client deadlines.

Guardian is pleased to announce that Mr Fan Chunsheng has joined Guardian as China Area Manager.

Fan has worked as a field engineer for both national and international logging companies during his career while at Schlumberger and Shengli Well Logging Company.  Manufacturing experience was gained while working for ASEP/Elmar as their sole sales and technical support representative. 

We are confident that Fan’s extensive experience will significantly strengthen the support that Guardian can offer it’s Chinese clients.  Hence we are delighted to welcome Fan to the company and look forward to exciting times ahead.

The recent Offshore Europe event in Aberdeen was another very successful show for Guardian with many old and several potential new clients visiting our stand.  The stand staff would like to thank all those who visited us and our sales staff will be following up with all our visitors in teh coming days and weeks.

Our next show is the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans and we look forward to seeing many of you there.

Guardian is delighted to welcome John McGrath to the team as our Director of Sales & Marketing.  John has worked in the logging industry for over 20 years for several major service companies, spending his initial years as a field engineer running the full range of open and cased hole tools.  After working in the field for many years John developed his career in a wide range of management roles including Operations, Marketing and Product Development within a number of service companies as well as Sales & Marketing roles for manufacturing companies.  John will be based primarily in Aberdeen, and his addition to the team will significantly increase our ability to respond rapidly to our clients needs.