Picture: TAQA Oil and Gas WOOD has won more work in the UK North Sea amid hopes the recent crude piece rally will boost activity in the area. The Aberdeen-based engineering giant has won a contract to provide support services across Taqa’s North Sea production assets. The five-year award covers work on a range of platforms. Wood has been working on some of them under a previous contract with Abu Dhabi-owned Taqa. The new contract also covers work on the Brae Alpha and East Brae platforms. The award provides a fillip for Wood at a time when oil services businesses working in the North Sea face big challenges. Oil and gas firms slashed spending in the area in response to the slump in demand triggered by the coronavirus crisis.
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Oil and gas firms have slashed investment in the North Sea in recent months Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire AS the crude price traded at nine-month highs last month Scottish energy giant SSE poured a bucket of ice-cold water on hopes of recovery in the North Sea. The 40 per cent rise in the crude price since early November, to around $53 per barrel, has been fuelled by hopes that effective coronavirus vaccines will be made available around the world by spring. While the surge in infection rates caused by the new variant has concerned traders, moves by Saudi Arabia to ease fears that Opec + members would ease production curbs too quickly have helped calm nerves.