AN engineering company has completed a project worth more than £1m and creating eight jobs.

A team of 20 specialists from the Stockton-based MCE Group have spent 18 months designing, constructing and testing three offshore generators for a new Floating Production Storage Offloading (FPSO) facility.

The work, carried out for Total, enabled MCE Group to create eight posts within its design team.

Ken Hayward, managing director of MCE Group, said: “This has been a very successful project for the group, which we hope will lead to a stronger relationship with Total.

“They have had a representative based with us for the duration of the project and we worked very closely together to meet their requirements.

“Winning this contract also allowed us to increase capacity within our core design team, which will also allow us to tender for equally large design and build projects in the near future.”

Following the design element of the project, the generators were constructed at Able UK’s facility, in Middlesbrough, due to their huge dimensions.

Each measuring 14m long by 5m high and 5m wide, the generators were tested at Able UK before being transported to Korea where they will be installed on the vessel.

Once housed inside the FPSO, the units will be used to generate emergency power when necessary, to support the day-to-day activities of the facility, including operating the umbilical systems from the well heads to the FPSO, as well as crane operation and lighting.

The FPSO will be located in the Deep Water Usan Oilfield, 100km off the coast of Nigeria.

MCE Group employs 40 permanent staff and up to 57 contract staff at its UK headquarters and workshops in Stockton, which houses its design and build division and valve services division.