Isleburn, the UK’s largest specialist fabricator, today announced it has secured six major contracts, totalling more than £16million, to build oil and gas production hardware for the North Sea.

The majority of the construction work on the projects will be completed at the company’s facilities around the Cromarty Firth and Aberdeen next year.

News of the latest business wins comes at the end of a highly successful year, during which Isleburn  secured a number of large contracts, including a major award to support BP’s Andrew and Devenick fields in the North Sea with fabrication of a caisson, manifold, valve skids and protection structures.
 
The new orders involve fabrication of:  nine towheads for the BP Andrew development; a manifold, protection structures and spools for BG’s Guape field; manifolds for Total’s Islay field; a drilling template, protection structure and spool bridge for Eon’s Huntington field; a manifold for Shell’s Pierce field and a mid water arch for Maersk’s Gryphon floating production, storage and offloading unit.
Isleburn’s chief operating officer, Neil MacArthur, said:  “As we approach the end of what has been a very good year for us, we are delighted to have secured these new contracts which will ensure we will continue to be very busy in 2011.

“The development of our new our assembly facility, beside the excellent quayside facilities at Invergordon Service Base, has been an important  factor in our ability to attract these levels of business and  secure employment in the coming year for local workers.
“Our facilities in the Highlands and around Scotland, along with the experience and expertise of our workforce, have established Isleburn as international leaders in the construction of subsea hardware for the North Sea and oil and gas operations around the world.”
 
Isleburn, which also has facilities in Dunfermline and Rosyth, is part of the Global Energy Group.