Expro has landed a $100million three-year deal with Tullow Oil.
The oilfield services company has been contracted in for Tullow’s assets in Ghana, including the Jubilee Field and the Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) field projects.
Riccardo Muttoni, Expro’s Sub-Saharan Africa region director, said: “We are delighted to work with Tullow in delivering a range of world class projects, strengthening our existing partnership and delivering value to their Ghanaian business.
“These contracts build on investments Expro has made over the past 5 years including the establishment of our world class operating facility in Takoradi. We are proud that 70% of our workforce in-country, including 20 graduate engineers, is Ghanaian, which we are looking to increase to 85% by 2017.”
Under the terms, Expro will provide subsea completion work in all planned wells.
Charles Darku, Tullow Ghana’s general manager, added: “We look forward to utilising Expro’s expertise in the offshore environment to deliver our key projects in Ghana. Major investments have been undertake nto date by both Tullow and Expro, with emphasis on local content development plans to further create opportunities for local businesses and people.”