{"id":9529,"date":"2020-12-11T08:26:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T08:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oilnewskenya.com\/?p=9529"},"modified":"2020-12-11T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T09:00:05","slug":"norco-group-lands-a-new-maintenance-contract-with-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/norco-group-lands-a-new-maintenance-contract-with-total\/","title":{"rendered":"ANGOLA: Norco Lands a New Maintenance Contract with Total E&#038;P Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An established energy storage equipment manufacturer and service provider,\u00a0Norco Group\u00a0will support\u00a0Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems and standby battery equipment\u00a0on\u00a0TEP Angola\u2019s assets in offshore Block 17. This includes the\u00a0Dalia, Girassol, Pazflor and CLOV Floating Production, Storage and Offloading facilities (FPSOs).<\/p>\n<p>Running for three years with an optional two-year extension, the contact will see Norco provide preventative maintenance as well as emergency fault response. This latest award comes on the back of similar agreements with major operators in Ghana and Equatorial Guinea, and will run alongside an existing contract with Total E&amp;P UK Ltd.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finbar Kelly (Commercial &amp; Contracts Manager), said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;We\u2019re delighted to be able to put pen to paper on this after some serious work behind the scenes. It\u2019s our biggest strategic step thus far into offshore West Africa, and now we\u2019re all focussed on delivering what we\u2019ve agreed with Total.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Roy (Director), said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;It\u2019s a testament to the work of the International Development team as well as the engineers who have serviced the contract with Total in the UK that we\u2019ve been also now selected to work with them in Angola. I\u2019m sure there will be logistics challenges in the current climate but we\u2019re looking forward to proving we\u2019re up to the task.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An established energy storage equipment manufacturer and service provider,\u00a0Norco Group\u00a0will support\u00a0Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) systems and standby battery equipment\u00a0on\u00a0TEP Angola\u2019s assets in offshore Block 17. This includes the\u00a0Dalia, Girassol, Pazflor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/norco-group-lands-a-new-maintenance-contract-with-total\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":8258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7442,7445,11],"tags":[160,8736,8733,918,8734,8737,8735,2533],"class_list":["post-9529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-southern-africa","category-top-news","tag-angola","tag-clov","tag-dalia","tag-fpso","tag-girassol","tag-norco","tag-pazflor","tag-total","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Angola-terrestrial-bassins.jpg?fit=2322%2C952&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-2tH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11294,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/angola-start-up-of-clov-phase-2-project\/","url_meta":{"origin":9529,"position":0},"title":"ANGOLA: Start-up of CLOV Phase 2 project","author":"","date":"December 3, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"TotalEnergies, operator of Block 17 in Angola, together with the Angolan National Oil, Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANPG) have announced the start of production of CLOV Phase 2, a project connected to the existing CLOV FPSO (Floating Production, Storage and Offloading unit). 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