Welcome to the second issue of Wood News for 2012

When Statoil needed a new seawater salt and sulphate removal (SSR) package installed onto the FPSO Maersk Peregrino, they turned to Wood Group Mustang. The FPSO, stationed in approximately 100 meters of water in the Peregrino field offshore Brasil, has been operating since early 2011. It is tied back to two wellhead platforms, for which Wood Group Mustang provided detailed engineering design for the decks. In order to meet crude export specifications, the FPSO needed a module that could provide approximately 5,000 m3 per day of desalinated seawater wash water for crude oil washing.

Based in Wood Group Mustang’s Woking office, near London, and with more than 15 years’ experience in engineering for the oil & gas industry, Jim Harker is a project manager with Wood Group Mustang.

Understanding customers’ needs, being flexible and able to react quickly is why Wood Group Kenny is the market leader in subsea operations support and asset management services. Our specialist Subsea Operations Group has a global presence and provides customers around the world with the best combination of experience and innovation to ensure subsea operations are compliant with relevant legislation, assets maintain their technical integrity, production uptime is optimised and operational budgets are reduced. Customers include BP, Gaz de France and Woodside Petroleum.

Simon grew up in Sussex, England, and graduated with a degree in civil engineering from Surrey University in 1991. He started his career in the civil engineering industry, worked on a variety of construction sites around the UK where he learnt a great deal about managing people. Simon moved to Aberdeen, Scotland, and the offshore oil & gas industry in 1998 when he started working for a subsea installation contractor. In 2004, he moved to Singapore to lead an EPCI project in Vietnam, then joined J P Kenny four years ago, working initially in their Stavanger, Norway, office. He and his family moved back to Aberdeen 18 months ago.

Operational Readiness - in simple terms, it says what it does. In Wood Group PSN (WGPSN) terms, operational readiness concerns our ability to assist clients to get their plant, facility, organisation and processes ready for safe and efficient operation. Moreover, it is an important and integral part of the operations and maintenance assurance we deliver to clients around the world.

Like many independent operators in the Gulf of Mexico, Energy XXI acquires and operates mature, producing oil & gas production platforms with aging equipment, with the intent of enhancing future production and ultimate recovery of reserves. When they began examining the viability of re-commissioning mature equipment on three platforms in Grand Isle 22L, the equipment had been out of service for approximately two years and included rotating equipment that required the specialist services of Wood Group GTS.