Wood Group Engineering has secured three more years of work operating and maintaining the floating production, storage and offloading vessel Triton for an estimated $120 million, it was learned Tuesday.

Oil-company Hess’s decision extends employment for 100 Wood Group employees and subcontractors on shore and off.

The Triton FPSO might well remain afloat serving the Bittern and Greater Guillemot area until 2020, suggesting yet more potential work for Wood Group crews 300 kilometres offshore Aberdeen.

Wood Group’s Triton onshore team also supports Hess operations offshore Equatorial Guinea, so the contract ensures stable operations off West Africa.