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Acergy was founded in 1970 as Stolt Nielsen Seaway, a division of the Norwegian Stolt-Nielsen Group offering divers for the exploration of the North Sea. After a series of acquisitions, including Comex Services of France in 1992 and Houston , Texas –based Ceanic Corporation in 1998, the company changed its name to Stolt Offshore in 2000.
Stolt-Nielsen leveraged his invention into his work as a ship broker, [3] and in 1959 Stolt-Nielsen officially became a ship owner with his purchase of the Stolt Avance. [ 4 ] 1959-2000
The company was part of the Stolt-Nielsen Group. In 1989 the company expanded to Aberdeen and in 1992 it acquired the French diving company Comex Services . In 1997 the company won its first ultra-deepwater contract off West Africa , resulting in the acquisition of Houston -based Ceanic Corporation , Danish NKT Flexibles and ETPM of France.
Niels G. Stolt-Nielsen (born January 23, 1965) is a Norwegian business leader. Since 1996 he has served as director of Stolt-Nielsen Limited (SNL), [ 2 ] a company with principal operations in parcel tankers, bulk-liquid storage, tank containers and aquaculture.
Fortune 500 companies based in Houston [1]: Rank Company name 12: ExxonMobil: 48: Phillips 66: 60: Sysco: 105: Enterprise Products Partners: 106: Hewlett Packard Enterprise: 127: Plains GP Holdings
Lynn Cook of the Houston Business Journal described this as "an astonishing number for the size of Andersen Consulting's lease." [2] In 1999, realty firm Cushman & Wakefield moved its Houston office into the America Tower from the Wells Fargo Tower of Four Oaks Place in Uptown Houston. As of 1999 the building was 99% leased. [13]
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The building was the former headquarters of Enron, one of America's largest commodities trading companies during the 1990s and later infamous for its financial scandal in 2001. 1400 Smith Street was originally known as Four Allen Center prior to Enron relocating to Houston in 1985. [4]