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Ashington engineering firm completes £2.4 million project

Ashington based oil and gas engineering firm FES International has completed a £2.4 million project to design and manufacture 19 diverless bend stiffener connectors (DBSCs) for NOV/Subsea 7.

The DBSCs are to be installed on the CLOV floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit, off the west coast of Africa.

The project formed part of the preparations for drilling which began in 2012, with oil production commencing earlier this year.

Managing director of FES International, Rob Anderson said: “We’ve a long-standing relationship with NOV and this is a great example of us delivering another smooth and successful project.

“Usually DBSCs are designed with what’s called ‘female’ latching. For this project we had to amend the design and manufacture the industry’s first ‘male’ latch DBSC. We have got an excellent and experienced team at our North East headquarters that is able to innovate and find solutions. That is the key to our success on projects such as this.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ellen Forster .