Business Weekly - Cambridge, UK

Petrofac already employs 50 offshore staff and 85 onshore employees from its current base in Bacton and continues to invest and recruit in the region.

In October 2003, Petrofac officially took over responsibility for the management of Tullow Oil UK Ltd’s Hewett facility in the Southern North Sea and its Bacton Gas Terminal in Norfolk.

The landmark agreement marked the first time that a facilities management company had assumed management of an onshore gas terminal in the UK.

The company is also the service operator and duty holder for UK offshore assets including Schooner, Ketch, Horne and Wren.

Petrofac works closely with Tullow to enhance performance of the Bacton terminal by increasing operational uptime and optimising costs to ensure a long-term future in the Southern North Sea.

This successful relationship has been possible due to continued improvement in production efficiency, the optimisation of production costs and an enhanced safety performance that is better than the industry average. Health and safety is extremely important to Petrofac and is implemented across the company through Horizon Zero, its ongoing safety campaign.

During 2006, Petrofac also took over duty holder responsibilities for the gas-producing Camelot platform, following the transfer of ownership from Mobil North Sea Limited, an affiliate of Exxon Mobil Corporation, to Energy Resources Technology (UK) Ltd (ERT).

Operating out of four strategically placed international centres in Sharjah, UAE; Aberdeen, Scotland; Mumbai, India; and Woking, England, the group has a further network of 14 offices worldwide.

It currently has around 8,000 employees worldwide.