INDUSTRY FOCUS: ENGINEERING

UK,” explains MD Olivier Renaud.

Renaud, moved with his family from France to Scotland after 18 years with the company managing projects cross Africa, responsible for project Zinia in Angola.

He details more about a key job where PBS by Ponticelli’s service portfolio has proved invaluable.

“We recently completed a specific project to change a compressor where we engineered the internal mechanism to change the process of exporting gas.

“This project was completed at the Shetland Gas Plant (SGP), operated by TotalEnergies, where the PBS by Ponticelli consortium successfully executed a £5m+ engineering, procurement, and construction project to allow the plant’s operating mode to be switched from High-Pressure to Low-Pressure.”

Uncompromising Expertise

“All Ponticelli Freres Group operations are fully aligned in terms of corporate strategy, and whilst Ponticelli UK welcomes uncompromising expertise and competencies from the Group’s global headquarters in France, it enjoys the autonomy to make its own decisions based on local market forces and requirements in line with the energy transition. If we identify opportunities that bring value to the Group then there is no reason we cannot pursue them,” says Renaud.

“Expansion beyond oil and gas will likely come in the booming UK offshore wind energy sector, where turbines are being erected weekly and feeding into the grid as part of a renewable and green policy which hopes to produce 50GW by 2030. With multiple construction and engineering projects underway, this is an attractive market for Ponticelli UK.

“In the floating offshore wind sector, we plan to be involved in construction and this is a very similar skillset to that which we already offer in terms of engineering and construction. Whilst there are some differences in maintenance requirements in the wind industry, we are members of the ECITB (Engineering Construction Industry Training Board), which helps us to stay abreast of the necessary competencies as we transfer our skills from oil and gas,” says Renaud.

“We are targeting offshore wind projects, bringing Ponticelli Freres Group experience in offshore wind farm pilot schemes to the UK. We will draw on the knowledge gained from

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