Sparrows Group has secured an initial five-year contract to deliver cranes and maintenance services for Statoil’s Mariner development in the North Sea.
The Aberdeen-based firm will supply crane operator personnel to support drilling, operations, maintenance and logistics, and will deliver maintenance and engineering services to the Mariner A platform’s two pedestal cranes.
Options to extend the contract mean it could potentially run for nine years. The value of the contract has not been disclosed.
Stewart Mitchell, chief executive officer at Sparrows Group, said: “The platform will be subject to high levels of lifting activity with both the north and south cranes working to support the drilling operations.”
Sparrows Group’s engineering team is working with Statoil with the integration of the cranes’ and mechanical handling equipment during the platform’s construction phase which is currently ongoing in South Korea.
Mariner A will be equipped with A-frame, lattice boom cranes mounted on fixed pedestals. The two crane capacities are 50 tonne capacity at 40 metre radius and 17 tonne capacity at maximum radius of 60m.
Mariner is scheduled to begin operation in 2018, it is expected that the field will contribute more than 250 mmbbls reserves with average plateau production of around 55,000 barrels per day.
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