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Our Story

Since our inception over 70 years ago, our mission has remained the same – improve access to secure and sustainable energy for communities worldwide.

  • FOUNDED IN 1954
  • EMPLOYEES GLOBALLY 1,100
  • PROJECTS DELIVERED 15,000+
  • COUNTRIES WORKED IN 100+
  • YEARS IN THE INDUSTRY 70+
  • GLOBAL OFFICES 12+

About Penspen

Penspen is a leading global energy consultancy company. Our teams design, maintain, and optimise energy infrastructure to improve access to secure and sustainable energy for communities worldwide. We help meet the world’s evolving energy needs by providing consulting, project, and engineering solutions across the entire energy project lifecycle. For 70+ years, Penspen has served energy clients with over 15,000 projects in more than 100 countries across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe, the UK, and the US.

Penspen works with a wide range of clients including many well-known international and national oil companies, utilities and infrastructure owners.  We differentiate ourselves on the technical and operational quality of service which we deliver to our clients and partners.  Also, we have no ownership ties to operators, contractors or suppliers, and therefore provide a truly independent, best practice service.

Sidara – A Group Collaborative

Penspen is a proud member of Sidara, a global collaborative of leading specialist firms that design for people and the planet. Our 19,000 visionaries, thinkers, and innovators from over 300 offices across 60 countries offer clients a broad range of highly specialised services—from architecture and design, engineering, and project management to digital strategy, sustainability consulting, and energy innovation—all under one umbrella. 

As part of Sidara, we can help our clients respond faster to unprecedented change and increased complexity through greater collaboration across the whole portfolio of companies. As a collective, we will be able to shape even better solutions, as well as being the advocate for change that our industry and world needs. 

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Our Values

Working Safely and Responsibly

Safety is our number one priority and we are committed to the goal of zero harm. We work as a team to take care of each other and ensure everyone goes home safely. We pursue success safely and responsibly, ensuring that we operate both sustainably and ethically.

Our People

Our people are our key assets. As a team of insightful people, we are dedicated to delivering value to our clients. We treat people as individuals by rewarding their successes, supporting their aspirations and empowering them to make a difference. 

Technical Excellence

We value and cultivate our technical leadership in order to help our clients. We support each other by sharing knowledge across the business and the industry. Enabling critical knowledge to flow allows us to address our clients’ complex challenges.

Our Commitments

We deliver on our commitments to both our clients and each other. By working together as “One Penspen”, we ensure high-quality work, on time and within budget, every time. 

Commercial Success

We encourage profitable entrepreneurship and actively manage risk to drive sustainable and commercially successful growth of our business. 

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Quality, Health, Safety and Environment (QHSE)

Penspen is a certified member of several internationally recognised organisations across the energy industry, including the British Safety Council, and holds many globally recognised QHSE certificates and accreditations.

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Executive Leadership

Penspen has a world-class reputation for providing independent, best practice advice on developing, managing, and revitalising energy assets across the world. Meet some of our team.

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Our Regions

Wherever you are, we are. Penspen combines global engineering experience with local project capabilities in over 100+ countries worldwide. Explore our key regions.

 

 

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Our Careers

Excellence is at the heart of everything we do and we believe the only way we can achieve this is by working with excellent people who support our values.

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