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10/07/2024

Wood Announces Six-Year Contract With Shell

Aberdeen's Wood Group has been awarded a six-year contract to provide brownfield engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCm) solutions for Shell's Prelude Floating Liquified Natural Gas (FLNG) facility in Western Australia.

Welcoming the announcement of the contract, Ken Gilmartin, CEO at Wood said: "LNG is a key transition fuel as industry balances the need for global energy security with the importance of urgent reduction in carbon emissions. We are delighted to build on our 70-year global relationship with Shell to deliver integrated brownfield engineering solutions for Prelude, the world's largest floating offshore gas facility.

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"The contract will draw on our global LNG expertise and underlines our position as a market leader for brownfield engineering across Australia."

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