Amec is to create more than 100 new jobs after securing a major North Sea deal which could give it work for up to a decade.
The international engineering and project management company has secured a multimillion-pound deal with Nexen Petroleum to provide engineering, procurement and construction services for its North Sea platforms.
The contract – which comes just weeks after Amec signed a major deal with GDF Suez – will run for six years, with the option of two extensions, each for a further two years.
It is estimated that up to 150 jobs will be created onshore and offshore, and the work will cover operational modifications and brownfield projects.
“I am delighted we’ve been awarded this contract by Nexen,” said Alan Johnstone, managing director for Amec’s brownfield and asset management business, Europe.
“This is a great opportunity to demonstrate our strength in delivering engineering, procurement and construction services, which complements our leading brownfield capability. We look forward to building on our long-term relationship with Nexen and working with them to achieve safe and reliable operations in the North Sea.”
Nexen Petroleum is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CNOOC Limited.
The deal comes just weeks after Amec was awarded a contract to provide hook-up and commissioning (HUC) support for GDF Suez’s Cygnus gas field.
Amec will be responsible for HUC on the four Cygnus platforms at the field, thought to be the southern North Sea’s largest gas discovery in the past 25 years. The contract follows on from front-end engineering design work for the Cygnus project carried out by Amec from its London offices.
It will support 140 jobs and be delivered by Amec’s Aberdeen offshore North Sea team, which includes the company’s completions and commissioning specialists.
The Cygnus field is expected to produce enough gas to meet the demand of nearly 1.5million UK homes at peak production, and represent 5% of total UK gas production by 2016. Located on the Dogger Bank in the southern North Sea, the field will be connected to the UK mainland via a gas export pipeline to the Esmond Transportation System pipeline export, which terminates at north Norfolk.