Our mission
Providing safe, cost-effective and reliable services to energy operations and logistics worldwide on a sustainable basis, enabling our customers to succeed in the ever-changing business environment.
Operating since 1979, Swire Energy Services has become established as the world’s largest supplier of specialist offshore containers to the energy sector. Today we provide a fully-integrated service package that also encompasses aviation, integrity and chemicals services for customers across the oil & gas, offshore wind and marine sectors.
We’ve invested hundreds of thousands of man hours developing and mastering our skills, with one goal in mind: ensuring every product and every service meets the most exacting standards.
Our knowledge and experience, our HSEQ focus, our global presence – all are applied to help our customers deliver reliable and cost-efficient operations.
And at the core of everything we do is our vision: "To be the easiest company to work with".
Executive Team
Manfred Vonlanthen
Chief Executive Officer View my Linkedin
Manfred joined Swire Energy Services in 2014 as Norwegian General Manager, moving to become Director of North Sea before taking on his current role as CEO. Manfred has a strong technical and commercial background and has held several senior management positions in various industries.
Alan Robson
Chief Financial Officer
Alan joined Swire Energy Services in 2017 as UK Finance Manager, moving to become Group Financial Controller before taking on his current role as interim CFO. Alan is a Chartered Accountant with over 15 years of experience in the Oil & Gas service industry.
Wayne Manning
Vice President Oil & Gas, Aviation +44 1224 872707 View my Linkedin
Wayne joined Swire Energy Services in 2010 as General Manager for Africa, and has held various roles across the organisation and is now Vice President Oil & Gas and Aviation, where he is responsible for the Global Business Units, P&L and Strategic Development, including OpCos around the world and Aviation.
Prior to joining SES, Wayne worked in the media industry for 16 years ultimately being responsible for a global portfolio of Magazines, Awards, Conferences and Websites across the Print and Packaging sectors with products in the UK, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, MENA and Australia. During this period, Wayne also held senior Publishing roles within the PR, Marketing and Travel sectors.
Wayne has an MBA from Liverpool University and has attended the JSS Advanced Leadership Programme at Instead.
Outside of work Wayne is married and lives on the South coast of England and enjoys playing sports including Hockey, Triathlons, Skiing and Surfing.
Michael King
Vice President Operations & HSEQ +44 1224 872707 View my Linkedin
Michael joined Swire Energy Services in 2011 as UK Operations Director and has held many different positions before taking on his current role as Vice President Operations & HSEQ.
He is responsible for central functions to support the Global Business Units in the areas of Safety, Sustainability, Operations, Quality, Rental Fleet, Information Technology, Digitalisation, Engineering & Supply Chain, Marketing, Commercial.
Prior to joining SES, Michael worked with international high volume manufacturing companies for eight years with responsibilities for Engineering, Production, Quality, Logistics, and overall site management. Before this, Michael worked for eight years as an aircraft engineer with the UK military.
Michael is educated to MBA level, specialising in process re-engineering and has attended the John Swire and Son Advanced Leadership Programme at the Insead business school in France.
