Hydra Offshore Ltd. and Wood Group Ghana Ltd. cement a long-term relationship for subsea engineering services in Ghana.
Ghanaian company Hydra Offshore has signed a two-year contract to provide local engineering support to Wood Group Ghana, providing subsea engineering services in Ghanaian waters. The contract announced last week follows the initial memorandum of understanding between Hydra and Wood Group in December 2013 regarding a partnership agreement to deliver services to the Ghana oil & gas industry.
Hydra Offshore will initially second engineers through WG Ghana into Wood Group Kenny (WGK), which was awarded an engineering services contract earlier this month by Tullow Ghana Ltd. WGK will support Tullow Ghana and its partners as they execute the TEN project offshore.
The TEN fields are located in the Deepwater Tano contract area about 60km off the coast of Ghana and approximately 30km west of the Tullow-operated Jubilee field. The reservoirs are spread over 800sq km, and lie in water depths of between 1000m and 1800m.
Tullow Oil and partners submitted the Plan of Development to the Minister of Energy in early November 2012 and the plan was officially approved in May 2013. The first oil is scheduled to be delivered in 2016.
WGK says it will provide Tullow Ghana with project engineering resources, specialist technical support and technical assurance services for subsea, umbilical, risers, and flowlines (SURF) implementation work until first oil.
Delali Otchi, CEO of Hydra Offshore (pictured at right), said: “The TEN Project is Ghana’s next big offshore field development and we are proud to be working alongside WGK to provide engineering assurance service to achieve first oil mid-2016. Our Ghanaian subsea engineers will be seconded within WGK experienced teams, working internationally to ensure the quality and technical integrity of subsea engineering and fabrication for this hugely important project for Ghana. We pride ourselves in being a home grown company focused on developing our local engineering capabilities over this period and we applaud Wood Group for their commitment in supporting the development of local content in Ghana and specifically the development of our Ghanaian engineers.”
Otchi spoke at the at the 5th Ghana Oil and Gas Summit in Accra in April, about "Local Content" and the challenges faced by local companies in the Ghanaian oil and gas sector.
The regional business unit director for Wood Group Ghana, Ian McKay commented: “This agreement affirms the readiness of WG Ghana to engage local companies in every aspect of their contract with Tullow Ghana and to work with them to train, coach develop their resources to a level of competence where they can compete internationally in the oil & gas sector. It will also ensure that, over time, Hydra Offshore develops a subsea engineering competence recognized internationally and a sustainable Ghanaian capability to support local field developments in the offshore oil & gas sector. The WGK program of development, coaching and the technology and experience transfer opportunities which will be afforded the Hydra Offshore team are second to none and is an incredible opportunity for the development of Hydra Offshore as a competent subsea engineering enterprise.”
WGK is the world's largest independent specialist subsea, pipeline and riser engineering and management contractor employing more than 2900 people worldwide and a part of international energy services company, Wood Group.
Related OE coverage:
Tullow discusses offshore Ghana developments, 1 July 2014 [video]
Tullow selects WGK for TEN work, 1 July 2014
US$1.23bn TEN contracts awarded, 31 October 2014
2H Offshore contract for TEN, 30 September 2013
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