BG Group’s Europe business has signed contracts with Wood Group PSN and Stork Technical Services (RBG) to provide a range of specialist support over the next five years to its Armada, Everest and Lomond assets in the central North Sea. The…
Wood Group Mustang Canada has been awarded the detailed engineering and design of an integrated topsides facility as part of the White Rose Extension Project (WREP), offshore Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada. Subject to partner, company and regulatory approvals…
ABTechnology Ltd. and partner Enegi have signed an option agreement with energy services firm Wood Group PSN to increase its participation in the ABT Oil and Gas project. ABT Oil and Gas is a joint project by Enegi and ABTechnology to…
Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) has secured a 1-year contract extension from Chevron North Sea Limited to deliver engineering and construction services to its assets in the Alba and Captain fields in the UK North Sea. Effective immediately, the…
Properly implemented, structural integrity management can provide structural integrity assurance from design to decommissioning, explains Mohammad Nabavian of Wood Group PSN. The concept of structural integrity management (SIM) for offshore installations is maturing…
Two projects aiming to develop small unmanned production facilities for use on marginal fields have been given a boost. Unmanned Production Buoy (UPB), based in Banchory, near Aberdeen, has signed a memorandum of understanding with engineering firm AMEC to provide engineering…
Black Elk Energy has released a new, third-party investigative report concerning the fire and explosion on the West 32-E platform that killed three contract workers. The findings take a hard look at the contractors involved in maintenance operations prior to the incident…
ConocoPhillips (UK) extended one of its longest running projects in the North Sea under a US$60 million (£40 million) one-year contract extension with Wood Group PSN. WGPSN will continue to provide operations and maintenance services, and…
Engineering services firm Wood Group PSN has been contracted to carry out engineering studies on a plan to deploy a production buoy facility design in the UK North Sea. Under the contract with ABTechnology (ABT), the firm behind the production buoy design…
Wood Group PSN was awarded a contract by Esso Highlands Ltd., a subsidiary of Exxon Mobil Corp., to provide engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance services to support its Papua New Guinea (PNG) liquefied natural gas (LNG) operations…
ABB appointed Ulrich Spiesshofer, the head of its Discrete Automation and Motion (DM) division, to succeed Joe Hogan as CEO, effective September 15. Marcio Rocha Mello, founder and CEO of Brazilian E&P firm HRT, has resigned his position…
Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) has secured its second North Sea duty-holder contract extension this year. Valued at about US$200 million (£140 million), the life-ofield contract from Ithaca Energy will see WGPSN operate and deliver managed services…
Wood Group acquired Pyeroy Group Limited (Pyeroy), a provider of specialist coatings, access and fabric maintenance services to the oil & gas, marine and rail industries. Headquartered in Gateshead, UK, Pyeroy was founded in 1973 and employs approximately 1…
Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) has extended one of its longest running projects in the North Sea under a US$60 million (£40 million) one year contract extension with ConocoPhillips (UK). WGPSN will continue to provide operations and maintenance services…
COLLOQUY: Editor's Column Beginning this month, we recognize the 25th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster. The Piper Alpha production platform was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Ltd. in the UK sector of the North Sea…
