ABERDEEN company Wood Group has secured a six-year contract with oil giant Shell to provide further services to a gas-to-power project in the Philippines.
Wood said the contract, to provide asset management services to the Malampaya deepwater gas-to-power project, would be supported by its “established local presence” in Manila and its upstream hub in Kuala Lumpur, and would create 60 jobs.
The Aberdeen company will provide maintenance services, modifications and shutdown support as part of the contract, which covers Shell’s onshore facilities in Batangas and offshore assets in the Malampaya field, near Palawan Island.
Wood noted the Malampaya deepwater gas-to-power project represented “one of the largest investments in the history of the Philippines”.
The Aberdeen oil services company added: “It was the start of the country’s natural gas industry supplying clean, natural gas to provide 3,200 megawatts of power to meet about 30 per cent to 50% of the country’s power-generation requirements.”
Wood has provided integrity management of subsea pipelines for the Malampaya project since 2001.
Robin Watson, chief executive of Wood, said: “The contract…grows our operations and maintenance business in the region, expanding our footprint in south-east Asia.”
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