Wireline Issue 25 Autumn 2013

FABRICATION

PROFILE

Mike Wood is only nine months into his career in oil and gas and he loves it. As project manager at Heerema’s Hartlepool yard, he is overseeing fabrication work for the Cygnus gas field in the southern North Sea

At the cutting edge MikeWood’s career has taken him from one landmark project to another. A late recruit to the oil and gas industry, he now faces the most exciting challenge of his career as project manager at Heerema Fabrication Group’s Hartlepool yard. His enthusiasm for the sector is an inspiration. Wireline catches up with Mike to find out more.

I t has been 15 years since Mike Wood was responsible for overseeing the completion of ‘Angel of the North’, the 200 tonne landmark in Gateshead, Newcastle. Now, he is project manager at Heerema Fabrication Group’s Hartlepool yard, working

pieces of public art; on the other, is one of the UK’s most important economic developments. The £1.4 billion gas project is the largest in the southern North Sea for a quarter of a century, and with more than 80 per cent of the investment to be spent with UK-based contractors,

on the manufacture of topsides for the Cygnus gas field on the UK Continental Shelf. It is clear why the two projects, as different as they are, are the highlights of Mike’s career. On the one hand, you have one of the UK’s best-loved

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