Multimillion-dollar job across Shell’s assets keeps Wood busy in UK

The UK-based engineering and consulting company Wood is staying for two more years on duty with Shell, thanks to a contract extension, which covers the British oil major’s onshore and offshore portfolio in the United Kingdom.

This extension, worth $120 million, will enable Wood to provide brownfield engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) services, supported by around 240 of its employees, to Shell’s onshore and offshore assets across the UK. A new addition to the original contract scope, secured in 2021, will see Wood provide EPC services on the FPSO Penguins.

This unit, which was put into work mode at the start of February 2025, represents the UK-based oil major’s first new North Sea FPSO in nearly three decades, resuming oil and gas production from a field in UK waters that has been offline since 2021.

Ken Gilmartin, CEO at Wood, commented: “We are proud to continue our decades-long relationship with Shell in the UK, focusing on the continued delivery of safe, reliable energy supply. The extension is recognition of our people and their commitment to deliver best-in-class outcomes for our clients.”

According to the company, this two-year, cost-reimbursable contract extension centers on providing brownfield EPC services, as well as subsea and integrity management, at the Shell UK-operated St Fergus and Mossmorran onshore terminals and the Nelson, Gannet, and Shearwater offshore assets.

This extension comes shortly after Wood won an assignment for onshore and offshore assets in the Gippsland Basin, Victoria, with Esso Australia, an Australian affiliate of ExxonMobil.

Before this, Shell also picked Wood for a long-term engineering assignment related to its floating liquified natural gas (FLNG) facility offshore Western Australia.