Engineering services firm John Wood Group PLC’s joint venture company Massy Wood has secured a five‑year framework agreement with Shell Trinidad and Tobago for the delivery of engineering projects and asset support in Trinidad and Tobago.
Under the agreement, Wood will support Shell’s onshore and offshore assets, “providing a suite of services that includes turnaround support for their mature brownfield assets and supporting new greenfield projects”, Wood said in a news release Tuesday. The financial details were not disclosed.
“This agreement is a strategic achievement for our team in Trinidad, solidifying Massy Wood as the front-runner of asset integrity in the region”, Wood Executive President for Operations Steve Nicol said. “We are dedicated to supporting our clients today through asset management and upgrades delivering energy security to the region”.
“This award is built on our long-standing relationship with Shell where we have a reputation for delivering high quality projects with an excellent safety record”, Shawn Combden, Wood President of Operations for the Americas, said. “This win provides significant opportunities for our local teams to continue their commitment to deliver the future of energy through process and operational improvements as we move closer to net-zero”.
Shell has operations in offshore and onshore blocks in the country, both operated and non-operated, as well as a majority shareholding in Atlantic LNG, the sixth largest liquefaction facility in the world, according to the company’s website. Shell Trinidad and Tobago delivers an integrated gas operation to supply the petrochemical market and Atlantic LNG.
The country’s East Coast Marine Area (CMA) includes two Shell assets: an offshore platform, the Dolphin facility, and an onshore processing facility, the Beachfield facility located in Guayaguayare. The company’s Barracuda project comprises two subsea wells, one in the Endeavour field and the other in the Bounty field. Both are tied back to Shell’s Dolphin platform. Endeavour was drilled to a depth of 20,000 feet (6,096 meters) while Bounty was drilled to a depth of 16,000 feet (4,877 meters).
The Barracuda backfill project, Shell’s first greenfield project in Trinidad and Tobago, has approximately 25,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd) of sustained near-term gas production with peak production expected to be approximately 40,000 boepd.
The country’s North Coast Marine Area (NCMA) includes two Shell offshore facilities, the Hibiscus platform and the Poinsettia platform. In March 2022, Shell Trinidad and Tobago delivered the first gas from its Colibri project. Project Colibri is a backfill project that is expected to add approximately 30,000 boepd of sustained near-term gas production with peak production expected to be approximately 43,000 boepd through a series of four subsea gas wells, tied back to the existing Poinsettia Platform located in the NCMA acreage.
Wood in February secured an $80 million contract extension with Equinor to deliver maintenance and modification solutions to its Peregrino offshore assets, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Wood will continue to provide maintenance solutions to optimize the Peregrino wellhead platforms and floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, delivering engineering, prefabrication and outfitting, offshore installation, commissioning and Turnaround (TAR) support.
The two-year extension builds on a long-term and global partnership with Equinor, where Wood supports operations in the United Kingdom, Norway and Brazil, Wood said in an earlier news release.
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