1912
- Wood & Davidson, a ship repair and marine engineering firm formed
1955
- John Wood took over as chairman
1964
- Sir Ian Wood, John Wood's son, joined the business, now named John Wood & Son
- Marine base was expanded into fishing, fish processing and general marine engineering
1970s
- Oil and gas reserves discovered in the North Sea
- First UK offshore oil produced
1979
- Wood Group awarded Shell Brent Field contract, the company's first major offshore contract
- Wood Group Gas Turbines established
1980s
- Wood Group split into two businesses: John Wood Group, focused on engineering, and J W Holdings
- US operations established
- Awarded maintenance contract in Middle East
- By 1989 was UK's largest indigenous oil service company and a world leader in the overhaul & repair of gas turbines
1990-95
- Rolls Wood Group joint venture formed with Rolls-Royce plc to extend overhaul and repair capability
- Began to build Well Support business
- J P Kenny acquired to enhance life-of-field capability, based in UK, US, Australia, Malaysia and Norway
1996-99
- Wood Group joint ventures received BP operations & maintenance contract in Colombia and decommissioned Brent Spar
- Wood Group Pratt & Whitney and TransCanada Turbines joint ventures formed to provide gas turbine repair and overhaul
- Well Support operations expanded into Argentina
2000
- Mustang and Alliance Engineering acquired, provided market-leading engineering services for deepwater facilities and lightweight topsides
- Four deepwater facilities, 66,000 tons of topsides, designed simultaneously for BP
- J P Kenny won design of BP's 50-mile Bombax gas pipeline, offshore Trinidad
- Power plant operations & maintenance business established
2001
- Established Energeticos, Wood Group Colombia and Wood Group Production Services
- Engineered 270km Spain-to-Majorca gas connector; West Seno deepwater pipeline, offshore Indonesia; BP Clair platform, UK North Sea
2002
- Successful IPO on London Stock Exchange
- Operations established in Brazil, Trinidad, Indonesia
- Engineered Marathon Alba facilities, Equatorial Guinea; Tangguh subsea pipelines, Indonesia; grassroots gas-to-liquids demonstration plant
- Established turbine controls business
2003
- Engineering work included Beguela-Belize, offshore West Africa and first compliant piled tower outside US; Murphy Kikeh, first deepwater discovery in Malaysia; and Su Tu Den FPSO, Vietnam
- Support began for TOTAL and Talisman, UK North Sea; Marathon, Equatorial Guinea; BP Colombia and Brunei Shell Petroleum
- Neal & Massy Wood Group joint venture established in Trinidad
2004
- Commissioning company DSI and flow assurance consultancy MSi acquired
- Began engineering Independence Hub, clean fuel modifications and refinery upgrades
- LNG expertise demonstrated by LNG Smart Air Vaporization and new storage tank design
- Gas turbine business grew with long-term power plant contracts in New York, Colombia and Thailand
2005
- Technical information and procedural documentation consultancy ODL acquired
- Wood Group Production Facilities Asia Pacific established
- Well Support business expanded via 10-year contract for Esso in Chad
- Contracts for operations & maintenance of Sevan Piranema FPSO and turbine maintenance for Termonorte Energy drive growth in Brazil
2006
- Engineering awards included Cairn Energy's Mangala production facility in India and first commercial application of LNG Smart technology
- Gas Turbine Services awarded fast-track construction of new peaking plants in US for American Electric Power and 16-year gas-turbine contract for Suez in Oman
- Awarded first duty holder contract, for Chestnut field FPSO
2007
- Allister Langlands appointed chief executive
- Awarded topsides engineering and commissioning of world's deepest offshore platform, Shell Perdido; engineering of second compliant piled tower, offshore Angola; maintenance & modification of BP's facilities in Trinidad, UK duty holder contracts
- IMV Projects acquisition increases presence in the Canadian heavy oil market
2008
- Acquired training services provider M&O, deepwater riser specialist group MCS; leading onshore US O&M provider Producers Assistance Corporation (PAC)
- Awarded FEED for Masdar, world's first green city and global engineering agreement for BP's subsea projects
- Appointed duty holder for TAQA's North Sea assets
- Wood Group Pratt & Whitney opened new US overhaul & repair facility
2009
- Became leading provider of O&M services in US Gulf of Mexico via acquisition of Baker Energy
- Eastern Hemisphere power plant EPC services grew via acquisition of Shanahan Engineering
- Mustang Al-Hejailan Engineering established in Saudi Arabia
- Mustang awarded global automation agreement by Chevron, FEED for Jack/St. Malo topsides
2010
- Asia Pacific presence expanded with opening of Perth corporate office and extension of Shell Brunei contract
- Awarded detailed design of Jack/St. Malo export pipeline
- Middle East/Africa focus expanded with long-term PDO contract awarded to CCC joint venture, first subsea FEED in Nigeria completed
- Invested in renewables consultancy SgurrEnergy
2011
- PSN acquired and merged with Production Facilities to create Wood Group PSN, the leading global brownfield production services provider
- Well Support division sold to GE
- Wood Group PSN awarded major North Sea contract with Talisman Energy
- Wood Group Kianda awarded first contract from BP in Angola
- Mustang Al-Hejailain DAR PI formed to support Saudi Aramco GES+ contract
2012
- Wood Group Mustang awarded topsides engineering for world's largest semi-submersible, Ichthys field, Australia
- Wood Group GTS received O&M contract extension from Sacramento Power Authority
- Wood Group PSN won O&M contract for Premier Oil's Balmoral FPV
- Sir Ian Wood retires. Allister Langlands becomes chairman; Bob Keiller becomes CEO
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