Wood Group awarded contract extension from Shell

Wood Group has secured a two-year contract extension from Shell UK to deliver integrated services to two gas plants in Scotland, continuing a previous contract awarded in 2007. The deal is the eighth North Sea contract extension awarded to the group in the past year, it said. Wood Group employs around 500 people under this contract and provides project management, engineering, construction, commissioning, maintenance support and supply chain management services. Since the acquisition of Pyeroy Group in July of this year, the company will also be providing fabric maintenance services to the Shell plants, as part of the new contract.Dave Stewart, UK managing director of WGPSN said: "We have been working with Shell for more than two decades and we are delighted to secure this major piece of work. This is the first contract where we have built our new fabric maintenance capability into the work scope."NR