HOUSTON, August 17, 2010 – Ecopetrol S.A., a worldwide energy and petrochemical company headquartered in Colombia, has awarded Wood Group’s Mustang a two-year Master Service Agreement (MSA) to provide pipeline engineering expertise and related services in order to optimize engineering design and maximize operating efficiencies, with the goal of increasing Colombia’s oil and gas production transmission capacity and safety. Initial efforts will focus on transportation of crude oil from producing fields throughout Colombia to refineries and terminals in country.
Mustang will provide integrated engineering services which include hydraulic system modeling, project management, procurement, environmental permitting, GIS, survey, drafting and construction management/inspection support.
Additional efforts focus on infrastructure development to support existing petrochemical operations and upgrade of pipeline systems to enhance leak detection for increased environmental protection and security. The agreement includes an optional two-year extension and was awarded based on Mustang’s full service, complete capabilities utilizing in-house resources and solid reputation in both greenfield and brownfield pipeline and facilities experience.
“Mustang is very fortunate to be selected by Ecopetrol to assist them in doubling their system crude oil throughput. It shows that they have a great deal of confidence in our ability to not just design, but effectively manage and engineer solutions to their enviable problem while protecting the environment”, said K.C. Yost, Mustang’s Director of Pipeline Engineering.
Mustang previously assisted Ecopetrol in developing Value Improving Practices Programs (VIPs) that have been implemented on numerous projects in Colombia. Mustang is also providing conceptual engineering services to Ecopetrol for its downstream petrochemical operations.
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Mustang provides services to the global oil, gas, chemical and manufacturing industries, specializing in design, engineering, procurement, project management and construction management and offers these services through its five business units: upstream oil and gas, pipeline, automation and control, refining and petrochemicals, and process & industrial. Mustang’s ECO Solutions™ group provides environmentally-oriented engineering and construction services to the LNG, carbon management, renewable fuels and power, and water resources markets. Mustang, a Wood Group company, has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, India, Malaysia and the Middle East. For more information, visit www.mustangeng.com.
Wood Group (John Wood Group PLC) is an international energy services company with $5.0 bn sales, employing more than 28,000 people worldwide and operating in 50 countries. The Group has three businesses—Engineering & Production Facilities, Well Support, and Gas Turbine Services—providing a range of engineering, production support, maintenance management and industrial gas turbine overhaul and repair services to the oil & gas, and power generation industries worldwide.
Ecopetrol is Colombia´s largest integrated oil company and is among the top 40 oil companies in the world and the four largest oil companies in Latin America. Besides Colombia, where it accounts for 60% of total production, the Company is involved in exploration and production activities in Brazil, Peru and the United States (Gulf of Mexico). Ecopetrol has the principal refinery in Colombia, most of the network of oil and multiple purpose pipelines in the country, and it is considerably increasing its participation in biofuels.
For further information contact:
Dena Lee, Manager, Marketing Communications, Mustang
Tel: +1 713 215 8315, email: dena.lee@mustangeng.com