Wood Group PSN has secured two contract extensions worth £152million and established a new joint venture in Africa.
The Aberdeen firm has secured a five-year contract extension to provide operations, maintenance and construction management services for asset facilities in the central Africa region which includes Chad, Cameroon, Gabon and Nigeria.
The deal with the unnamed operator extends a contract first awarded in 2006. It is worth more than £85million and employs 580 people.
An additional contract extension, thought to be with Marathon Oil, will see the firm deliver operations and maintenance services to assets in Equatorial Guinea. The three year contract extension is worth more than £67million and secures employment for around 130 people both onshore and offshore.
The contract was first awarded to WGPSN in 2003.
Wood Group has also recently established a new joint venture (JV) in West Africa with Kwaku Boafo Nyantekyi-Owusu, an agent with Natural Resources Development and Marketing Company International (Nardemco).
The tie up with the boutique project development and finance company based in Accra enables the group to bring technical support services to the sector in Ghana and marks its first move into the West African republic.
Wood Group is a 49% shareholder in the venture with Mr Nyanteki-Owusu as president and majority shareholder.
James Crawford, WGPSN managing director for Africa, said: “We are extremely proud of our performance in Africa.
“These contract renewals and our new joint venture are testament to the standards of the services we provide and our commitment to expansion and investment in Africa.
“We are focused on the continued development of our people, especially our local management teams in Africa. Today, nearly 90% of our maintenance contract personnel across the region are nationals.”
In Africa, WGPSN employs more than 3,000 people working onshore and offshore.
The company currently operates in Algeria, Angola, Cameroon, Chad, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunisia and Uganda.