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Giant Order Shows Vertec’s Global Capability

An Aberdeen firm is looking to develop its international business after completing its largest contract win. Vertec Engineering hopes the experience it has gained in completing a £2.5million contract from Baker Hughes Centrilift (BHC) will put it in good stead to win future module deals.

The two modules – which together weigh more than 350tonnes and house equipment rooms to power 14 electrical submersible pumps placed down oil and gas wells – will be loaded at Aberdeen Harbour later this week bound for Singapore. Once in Asia, they will be fitted on an FPSO to be used on the Santos-operated Mutineer and Exeter fields offshore Australia.

Vertec managing director John McIntosh said: "We see an increasing market world-wide providing topsides for downhole projects. "This (contract) also gives us the potential to go into non oil markets as the same modular concept we have used here could be used in other sectors, in petrochemicals, or any other sector that requires any large pumping activity".

Vertec, which added extra staff to its 74-strong workforce to complete the contract, made the modules, which house variable speed drives, at its base in Dyce. Its associate company, Cooltime Engineering, fitted out the halls with air conditioning and ventilation units. Once built, the modules were transported in sections to the harbour, where they were assembled dockside and fitted with the equipment needed to power the pumps.

BHC said it had used 13 global suppliers to supply the equipment for the contract, worth upwards of £30million. Many of the firms were based in the north-east and BHC said the contract had generated £8million for the local economy.

David Cox, the BHC project manager said: "The halls have been completed ahead of schedule and within budget. This is a milestone in the offshore industry which reflects well on Vertec Engineering, which built and designed the halls, on all of our other sub-vendors and on the Aberdeen oil and gas industry as a whole".

The contract is the largest awarded to BHC for subsea deployed dual submersible pumps. It last year became the first company to supply dual submersible pumps. On his visit to Aberdeen, Scottish Enterprise chief executive Jack Perry viewed the modules at the harbour. He added that Vertec was a great example of expertise gained in Scotland being deployed worldwide.

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