Wireline Issue 24 - May 2013

Members of the EPC Offshore team (L-R): Anthony Quick, project management leader; Peter Kirkbride, chief operating officer and Keith Wallace, CEO

From strength to strength Where there’s a will to exploit the full potential of the UK’s oil and gas resources, there’s most certainly a way. The UK subsea services sector plays a key role in this endeavour and has established itself as a burgeoning world class supply chain. Wireline reports on the activities of two companies in the field – GE Oil & Gas and EPC Offshore.

2 012 saw some bold moves by the subsea arm of equipment and services supplier GE Oil & Gas. Celebrating 30 years of its Oil & Gas Centre of Excellence in Montrose, Scotland, the company started work on a £9 million project to double the size of the machining facility, with a view to

creating 40 new jobs in the process. It also announced plans to commission a project management and systems engineering hub in Bristol, creating a further 200 jobs, and its Subsea Production Control Systems Centre of Excellence, in Nailsea, Somerset, saw an investment of £3 million to expand capabilities.

“The decision to expand our capabilities and invest in new facilities in the UK was an easy one.”

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