Aberdeen engineering firm Sigma Offshore is to provide services for a multi-million dollar oil project in the Indian Ocean.
The company will provide Bumi Armada with engineering support for a £40million turret mooring system as part of a floating production, storage and offloading vessel in the Cluster-7 field.
The value of the deal for Sigma, which also has bases in Houston and Singapore alongside its Aberdeen headquarters, has not been disclosed.
The project forms part of the $1.1billion contract for the field, struck as a joint venture between Bumi Armada and Shapoorji Pallonji to provide the FPSO for the field, operated by India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
“We’ve developed an excellent relationship with the Bumi Armada team and we’re looking to build on this with a view to tendering for future opportunities in the region and further afield,” said Sigma chief executive Alistair Dornan.
“With our client based in Malaysia for a field development offshore India, and using engineering support from the UK, it truly shows the international nature of the modern-day upstream sector.”
Most of the work for the project will be carried out by Sigma’s bases in Aberdeen and London.
THe FPSO is due to be delivered in November 2014.