Sparrows lands five-year deal with ‘major operator’

Engineering and maintenance services specialist Sparrows Group has secured a new five-year contract with a ‘major oil and gas operator’ to deliver crane services for seven of its onshore and offshore assets in North America.

The seven-figure deal will see Sparrows’ Houston team deliver crane inspection, maintenance, testing and repair services at two onshore facilities and a platform in the Gulf of Mexico, the services provider said on Wednesday.

In addition, the contract encompasses an onshore processing facility project and three offshore assets in California.

As detailed by Sparrows, it will deliver services across a wide range of crane types including pedestal, kingpost, mobile, overhead, davit, monorail, and gantry cranes.

Sparrows has not revealed the name of the operator nor the value of the five-year contract.

However, the company did emphasise that the project marks another milestone in its long history with the operator, which saw the company most recently deliver a rental crane to support the operator’s three-year decommissioning operation in the Gulf of Mexico.

Stewart Mitchell, Sparrows CEO, said: “The US has been a key focus for us as our robust growth strategy incorporates the oil and gas market as well as industrial and renewables.

“Safety-critical equipment is essential to the ongoing safe operation of any asset and as the US begins to ramp up activity across the energy and industrial sectors, we recognise the importance of maintaining continuous operations”.