A new £273.5million contract won by energy service giant Subsea 7 for work in the UK North Sea is expected to secure about 50 jobs.
It involves work for Premier Oil on the Catcher development, about 110 miles east of Aberdeen.
“Offshore activities utilising a number of Subsea 7 vessels will commence in 2015,” Norway-based Subsea 7 said in a statement.
The new contract adds to a record £7billion backlog of orders at Subsea 7, which said a “wide range of functions” would be required to work on the project.
It is estimated that the work will be supported by more than 50 onshore staff over the period of the contract, at Subsea 7’s offices at Westhill, near Aberdeen, as well as its Wick fabrication site and Leith spoolbase.
Catcher lies in the central North Sea block 28/9.
Premier is waiting for Department of Energy and Climate Change approval of its field development plan for the discovery, where first oil is expected in mid-2017.
Meanwhile, Westhill-based energy service firm SeaEnergy has announced that its recently-established subsidiary SeaEnergy Ship Management has been awarded the ship management of its first vessel.
The deal involves subsea support vessel the MV Surf Ranger, which was recently acquired by a subsidiary of Singapore company Otto Marine.
The Marshall Islands-flagged ship has recently arrived in the UK North Sea, where it is operating under charter and deployed on subsea support to exploration and production operations.
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