Aberdeen-based Wood Group has created a new data analytics centre of excellence in Ireland.

The facility was established at the oil services firm's Galway office and is part of the company's plan to grown its data analytics team to ten people by the end of this year.

The centre will enhance Wood Group's digital solutions capabilities and will focus on applying data analytics technologies developed and deployed across other industries to the energy industry.

Bob MacDonald, Wood Group's CEO Specialist Technical Solutions, said: "Wood Group's commitment is to providing innovative technical solutions that solve our client's challenges. We recognise the power of data analytics to enable our energy industry clients to optimize their exploration and drilling activities, enhance efficiencies and maximize the productivity of their assets.


"This new centre, made possible through the support of the IDA, greatly enhances our specialist technical capabilities, enabling us to handle large quantities of data effectively and embrace and explore new innovations and technologies for the oil & gas, industrial, utility and power sectors. This broadening of our capability in data analytics, married with our strong expertise and heritage in engineering will create exciting new opportunities for efficiencies that will directly benefit our clients."

Minister of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Mary Mitchell O'Connor TD, added: "This company is at the cutting edge of providing services for the oil and gas and power generation industries and will create further high skilled jobs in Galway. It is very gratifying that they are based in a regional location, and their expansion here dovetails with the Government's Regional Action Plan for Jobs process."

(LM)