Aberdeen-based Consafe Engineering Services has been awarded contracts worth almost £10 million for the supply of modules for production platforms offshore Australia and in the UK North Sea sector, creating more job opportunities in North-east Scotland.

David Moore, Consafe’s sales and marketing manager, stated, “Winning our first contracts off Australia and another in the North Sea, along with the order book in hand and work in the pipeline, make it a great start to a year which looks like being a very busy period for Consafe.

“The latest successes mean we are undertaking our biggest recruitment drive in a number of years, looking to add around 20 personnel across all engineering disciplines and bringing the workforce to approximately 125.”

Consafe has been awarded a contract by Wood Group Engineering (North Sea) Ltd, on behalf of Total E&P UK, for the design-and-build of a 29 module, four-storey living quarters extension being built in Aberdeen for assembly on the Elgin platform. Providing an additional 1,000 m² of floor space, it will comprise new offices, recreation room, sickbay, heli-lounge, galley and mess facilities and a new muster area.

Two contracts have also been placed by PSN, Melbourne, for 15 modules as part of a major modifications project in the Bass Strait, off Victoria.

The first is for five modules built on two levels, comprising a galley and mess, sickbay and temporary office facilities. All the modules will be H60 fire-rated and blast-rated to 200mbar, and fabricated in carbon steel with a proprietary intumescent fire protection coating. 

The second contract is for Temporary Living Quarters (TLQ), a ten-module facility on two levels with accommodation for 36 persons in four-man cabins, with laundry and a recreation area.  The modules will again be H60 and blast-rated, but with a stainless steel over-cladding. 

The TLQ will be located on the site of the helideck, with the existing helideck removed and a new one installed directly above, using the new TLQ for support. 

With the modules to be delivered from Aberdeen later this year, both contracts also involve detailed logistics and movement of manpower, with Consafe sending members of its Aberdeen workforce to assist and supervise the full trial assembly onshore in Australia, due to time and accommodation constraints offshore.