Kværner and Aker Solutions is awarded a contract for the “hook-up” of the riser platform for the Johan Sverdrup.
the contract value is approximately nok 900 million and will be divided roughly equally between the two companies. Kvaerner estimates its share to around 450 million.
The two companies will work integrated with Statoil in the work, which mainly will consist of planning, management, and pairing of the seven platform-modules on Sverdrup. These are going to Norway in the second quarter of 2018.
” We are very pleased to win this contract in cooperation with Aker Solutions. This is a confirmation that our experience and expertise within the offshore hook-up and commissioning are in demand”, says Terje Johansen in Kværner.
“We are very pleased to continue to support Statoil forward in this gigantutbyggingen, which will be of great importance for Norway in several decades,” says ceo Luis Araujo, Aker Solutions.
Will employ over 1,000 people
the companies will work could employ 100 people in the preparation phase and around 1000 from 2018. It looks however that there will be any immediate new employment in the preparation phase.
It is too early to say whether there will be employment, but together with Aker Solutions, we have a relatively large capacity, and we don’t see immediately great ansettelsesbehov, says Johansen to the E24.
− It may come innleiebehov, but we have to come back to later. This is very early estimates in both volume and size, ” he says.
According to Johansen, it will not take long before the first phase of the work will come in time, and compilation will take place on the west coast.
− the preparation phase will be done from Aker Solutions on their premises in Stavanger where we will have a joint project team between Aker Solutions and Kvaerner, ” says Johansen.
− This work will start immediately and offshore start up in 2018, and will reach out in 2019, he says.
Aibel on the team
In addition, Aibel has been awarded the contract for hook up and commissioning of drilling platform on the Johan Sverdrup field centre in 2018.
the Value of the contract Aibel has been awarded should be at closer to 400 million, writes the company in a press release.
We build the drilling platform to Sverdrup, and think it’s stats to be able to do the job completely done offshore, svp communications, Bjørg Sandal in Aibel to E24.
− There is far between the contracts of a certain size, so this is welcome for us, ” she says.
the Contract also includes an option for the installation and completion of the prosessplattformen and boligplattformen in 2019, writes Statoil in a press release.
“This is an important contract for Aibel, we have been focused and worked hard to improve our competitiveness, and we are pleased to see that we hijacker shares in a tough market,” says president and ceo in Aibel Mads Andersen in the press release.
the Company writes that they will employ up to 600 people up to summer 2019.
despite the new contract does not see the company for themselves that there will be no employment boom of the grun.
− We are not looking for us recruitment, but people who go out of the other finished projects fit well into this project. So there will be no resurgence of recruitment, but there are some people that work here that are secured job in a relatively long time in the future, ” says Sandal.
– Important to ensure the workplace
Also the oil and energy minister Terje Søviknes (Frp) express themselves positively to the new contracts, and the impact it will have on the Norwegian jobs in the years ahead.
– the Current contracts are another example of how important new projects on the Norwegian continental shelf in general and the Sverdrup especially for Norwegian jobs and value creation. Therefore, the government is to ensure that we can maintain the high activity on the Norwegian continental shelf in decades to come. It is the most important thing we can do to ensure jobs, economic growth and welfare, says Søviknes.
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