Oilfield service group Petrofac has sealed a £375million deal to extend its support for North Sea assets owned by oil firm EnQuest.
The new arrangement covers operations and maintenance and will last for up to 10 years.
It replaces an initial five-year contract awarded to Petrofac last year and already supporting about 300 offshore and onshore jobs.
Petrofac will continue to provide services to EnQuest on the Thistle, Heather and Northern Producer assets.
The newly extended contract also covers a floating production, storage and offloading vessel, EnQuest Producer, which is undergoing finishing and commissioning work ahead of its deployment to the Alma/Galia field.
EnQuest North Sea president Neil McCulloch said: “We are pleased to confirm that Petrofac will continue to provide support services to EnQuest for up to the next 10 years.
“We look forward to working together to ensure we continue to deliver safe results and achieve exceptional performance.”
Bill Dunnett, managing director, Petrofac Offshore Projects and Operations, said: “This is testament both to the continued strength of our relationship with EnQuest and to our understanding of these assets.
“We have succeeded in delivering safe production, asset integrity and performance improvements for almost a decade.
“We’re now looking forward to continuing to work closely with EnQuest to help develop and implement long-term plans for infrastructure management to maximise returns for the next decade and beyond.”
The latest deal comes just a few months after Petrofac said it had secured more than 300 jobs from North Sea contract extensions worth a total of £65million.
A new two-year agreement with France’s Total followed a five-year deal to provide technical services on the Alwyn and Dunbar platforms.
Petrofac also secured a renewal of its duty-holder contract on the Kittiwake platform, now owned by EnQuest, to the end of 2014.
In addition, the international energy service group won a two-year contract renewal from Centrica’s gas storage division, Centrica Storage, for the Rough offshore gas storage facility – the UK’s largest – in the southern North Sea.