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A 24-hour strike of Wood Group oil and gas maintenance workers could disrupt operations at several Royal Dutch Shell platforms in the North Sea where they are employed, labour union Unite said on July 18. The strike action, scheduled for July 26, will be the first by UK North Sea workers in thirty years. ...
THE North Sea oil industry is winding down and politicians and workers must start planning for the future “pretty quickly”, respected oil veteran and government adviser Sir Ian Wood has warned. The Wood Group founder said the North Sea oil industry could lose 15,000 jobs in Scotland and production might fall by 10% as drillers cut back in response to falling oil prices....
Hazard detection specialist Groveley Detection has built a system to monitor methane levels within seven sea bed risers on FPSO Triton in the North Sea. Wood Group engineers approached Groveley to design the unique system, which they based around seven Simtronics GD10 infrared flammable gas detectors, each with a 0-100% vol methane, to be fitted into pipe risers on Triton. ...
John Wood Group and Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC), have announced the formation of Wood Group-CCC, a joint venture to provide operations and maintenance services for the oil and gas and petrochemical industries in Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, Bahrain and Yemen....