John Crane Signs Three-year North Sea Contract

John Crane Asset Management Solutions has secured a three-year £3 million ($3.8 million) contract to provide condition based maintenance services with a major operator in the U.K. North Sea.
 
The work covers rotating equipment across 12 assets and infrastructure sites and includes deployment of a specialist engineer to the operator’s U.K. offices to support reliability improvement.
 
The agreement, which follows a competitive re-tender, extends the contract which John Crane Asset Management Solutions has held for the past eight years.
 
In October 2015, John Crane announced it had acquired XPD8 Solutions, an Aberdeen independent asset management business. All employees from both firms who were based in Aberdeen have now transferred to one site, which includes offices and workshops, at Centurion Court on North Esplanade West.
 
The latest contract, which is for an initial three years plus two one-year options, will enable the strengthened John Crane Asset Management Solutions team to use their expertise to fully meet the customer needs and further increase asset performance.   
 
The contract involves John Crane Asset Management Solutions engineers mentoring their onshore and offshore compatriots with the client. This will include data collection training to minimize costs associated with sending specialists offshore.
 
John Crane Asset Management Solutions is a trading name of XPD8 Solutions Limited, which is part of John Crane, itself a division of the global technology company Smiths Group Plc.