ECONOMIC REPORT 2013
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Oil & Gas UK has categorised into five different
types for fabrication purposes:
• Subsea
• Floating Production Storage and Offloading
vessels (FPSOs)
• Steel structures within three main weight
ranges:
o
Under 4,000 tonnes
o
Between4,000tonnesand20,000tonnes
o
Greater than 20,000 tonnes
The number of projects in each category
over this five-year period can be seen in
figure 39 (overleaf) and, as mentioned above,
the majority in this time-frame are subsea
tie-backs. For this type of development, the
survey results show that most of the structures
are fabricated in the UK. Larger platform
structures are being built in both the UK and
overseas, but fabrication of FPSOs is invariably
contracted to ship yards located in Korea and
China for commercial and capacity reasons.
Harland and Wolff
Sembmarine SLP
Global Energy Group (Nigg Energy Park)
Burntisland Fabrications, Burntisland
Burntisland Fabrications, Arnish
Burntisland Fabrications, Methil
Babcock, Rosyth
OGN Tyneside
Hereema Hartlepool
Able Seaton Port (Hartlepool)
Hertel
Wilton Engineering
TAG Energy Solutions
Rigmar Group (Dundee)
Babcock, Appledore
OGN Lowestoft
Able Middlesbrough Port
Ledwood
A&P
ZE1 Global
Pallion Engineering
Global Energy Group (Aberdeen)
Global Energy Group (Dunfermline)
Global Energy Group (Invergordon/Evanton Cluster)
Global Energy Group (Muir of Ord)
Figure 38: Distribution of Fabrication Companies in the UK
