UK retains some of Claire

While the majority of the jacket work for BP Amoco's Clair Field will go to Aker Verdal in Norway, some of the topside work will be carried out by UK-based Amec.

AMEC has secured around £50 million of work to provide the main deck fabrication and integration. The scope of work involves fabrication of the deck and flare boom, and integration of pre-fabricated modules within the deck. It will take place at AMEC's Wallsend facility on Tyneside and will provide continuity of employment for several hundred AMEC employees currently working on a major project for offshore Nigeria.
Work will begin late September 2002 with the deck scheduled for completion, following commissioning, in April 2004.

The future of the KBR Caledonia yard at Nigg, in Scotland may now be in doubt after it pinned hopes for its survival on winning the £60m order. It is reported that the yard now employs around 60 personnel.

The Clair Field was given the go-ahead by the UK Government towards the end of last year with the hope of creating up to 1,000 jobs. It now seems that many, if not most, of these will not be in the UK.

The Claire field is the largest undeveloped oil and gas field on the UK continental shelf in the North Sea and lies 45 miles west of the Shetland Isles.

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