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Sparrows lands £32 million in contract wins

Sparrows, the Aberdeen-based leader in offshore lifting and mechanical handling, signed more than £32 million in offshore crane maintenance contracts in the three months from March to May 2011.

The contracts cover the operation and/or maintenance of 251 cranes working on 144 offshore production installations in four countries; together, these contracts directly protect 121 offshore jobs at Sparrows, plus a similar number of onshore jobs for Sparrows staff working in design engineering, project management, maintenance workshops, finance and other support roles. The contracts have also created 23 new engineering and technical positions at Sparrows, on and offshore, for which the company is currently recruiting additional staff; these posts are in addition to the 143 other ‘new starts’ Sparrows has recruited globally in 2011, 67 of whom are in Aberdeen.

The contract awards represent renewals or extensions of contracts with existing clients including Chevron, Total, ConocoPhillips, Shell, Fairfield Energy and Bluewater Energy Services. The contracts are for work in the UK, Netherlands, Nigeria and Indonesia and range in duration from six months to 2 years.

“Sparrows ability to renew client contracts is the continuous measure of our ability to deliver safety, quality and value to clients; only by delivering on those three promises can we earn the opportunity to secure continuity of work,” says Sparrows CEO, Doug Sedge.

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