Tyne yard wins oil platform contract from Amec

07-06-02 Tyneside offshore production yard has won a £ 50 mm contract to build part of a new oil platform. The contract will help secure thousands of jobs at North Tyneside-based Amec.
BP, which owns the platform, says the deal with Amec will expand drilling operations off the Shetland Islands. Work by Amec's River Tyne yard is due to be completed on the project by the summer of 2004.

The yard built the giant Shearwater gas platform in 2001. A spokesman for BP said construction of the platform would be shared between Tyneside and Norwegian firm Aker Verdal.
He said: "Amec will make the platform topsides, which will incorporate three decks to accommodate crew, storage and processing facilities." BP says the 540 ft high platform will expand operations in the Clair oil and gas field off the Scottish coast.