Babcock International Group said today that its facility at Rosyth had landed a £30million-plus contract for a major project west of Shetland.
The company will use 100 workers to make 74 steel modules for the subsea system for BP’s Quad 204 redevelopment project. Fabrication of the first structure is to start in March, with the final one completed in 2015.
The Quad 204 project will cost £3billion and involves redevelopment of the Schiehallion and Loyal fields.
The scheme includes replacement of existing Schiehallion floating production vessel with a new vessel, which is scheduled to be installed in 2015.
The fields have produced nearly 400million barrels of oil since production started in 1998 and an estimated 450million barrels are still in place.
Mike Pettigrew, Babcock’s managing director, future business, said: “We are delighted to have secured the contract to deliver this technically-complex project, enabling us to demonstrate our capability and experience, and our facilities and resources at Rosyth.
“Utilising our advanced understanding of high integrity, complex fabrication and project management across the Babcock organisation we will develop a fully-integrated team with BP to ensure the project is delivered to the highest-quality standards, aligned to BP’s overall field requirements and supporting future field developments.
“The project will secure and sustain over 100 positions and also involves the wider supply chain in Scotland with a number of subcontracts to be awarded, as well as providing training and development opportunities in specialist skills and offshore expertise at Rosyth.”
Andrew Train, BP Quad 204 offshore programme director, added: “The Quad 204 project is a major investment in the North Sea for BP and its partners and this is a key contract for the delivery of the subsea production system.
“We are looking forward to working collaboratively with Babcock and safely delivering high quality and reliable subsea structures which will help to extend the field life of the Schiehallion and Loyal fields.”
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