Oil and gas consultant Xodus Group said yesterday it had won a contract with Maersk Oil North Sea UK worth up to £6million over three years.
The deal comes as the Aberdeen-based firm moves to increase its Granite City workforce.
The Maersk contract, which has the option for two one-year extensions, will see Xodus provide a range of engineering services to support the oil company’s UK North Sea operations.
Alistair Porter, process and facilities manager at Xodus, said: “The award of this primary contract underlines our ability to provide an integrated suite of engineering services to North Sea operators.
“We have assembled a core team of five Xodus senior personnel who will be committed to this contract for the next three years.
“We are also gearing up to expand our process and facilities division in Aberdeen with at least 10 new appointments in the next month. This is designed to support our existing and projected growth and means we will have a stable of more than 85 staff working in this division in the UK.”
Xodus, which also has offices in London, Orkney and Perth Australia, employs more than 200 people.
Subsea 7, the subsea engineering and construction company, said yesterday it had been awarded a pipeline engineering, construction and installation contract offshore Angola, west Africa.
It said that the project, for an unnamed oil company, was valued at more than £90million and engineering work would begin immediately, with the offshore phase starting next year and completing in 2011.
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