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    Herald Scotland: Wood Group Highlights Scale of Challenge in North Sea

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Oil services firm Wood Group has said that a cut in personnel and maintenance in the UK North Sea is already having negative consequences

by: Erica Mills

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Herald Scotland: Wood Group Highlights Scale of Challenge in North Sea

Wood Group has highlighted challenging conditions in the North Sea but signalled confidence in the longer term prospects for work in the area.

The Aberdeen-based oil services giant provided further evidence that moves by oil and gas firms to cut spending in response to the crude price slump are hitting the North Sea supply chain in an update on trading.

"We are seeing the impact of reduced project work and in certain cases non-essential maintenance work," said Wood Group, which is braced for a sharp fall in profits this year.

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