‘Jacket’ perfect fit for Vulcan SFM
Offshore Group Newcastle (OGN) has secured a £50m deal for the design and fabrication of an oil and gas ‘jacket’, an offshore platform support structure which is fixed to the sea-bed – for operator Talisman Sinopec Energy UK’s MonArb pro- ject.
OGN awarded Vulcan a multi-million pound contract to design and manufacture the jacket castings.
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Hide AdPaul Mockford, a design director of Vulcan SFM, said: “No other company in the world has our experience and knowledge of designing and manufacturing these complex safety-critical cast- ings.
“These castings form an integral part of the structure and will need to function for the life of the structure in extremely harsh operating conditions.”