WGK awarded £36 million subsea contract

Wood Group Kenny (WGK) has been awarded a £36 million call-off contract, for 2014, with BP Azerbaijan under their 2007 Global Agreement. The contract will cover engineering and project management services for the Shah Deniz 2 Subsea Execute phase.

WGK has worked with BP on the Shah Deniz project since 2008 to provide engineering support through the Appraise, Select and Define phases of this major project.

The award of this contract is in addition to the subsea engineering work currently being carried out under the BP Global Agreement covering engineering and project management services in the North Sea, Angola and Gulf of Mexico.

Wood Group Kenny Chief Executive Officer, Steve Wayman said: “We have worked with BP Azerbaijan for a number of years and the award of this contract enables us to extend and reinforce that long-standing relationship. We are proud to continue our work with BP in this key region and look forward to using the knowledge we have built up in the previous project phases, and applying it to BP Azerbaijan’s benefit during the production phase.”

Adapted from press release by Hannah Priestley-Eaton

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