SKF has been awarded a new five-year condition-based maintenance contract by Total E&P UK. Working globally with Total, SKF will provide condition-based maintenance services covering a wide range of rotating equipment on Total’s North Sea onshore and offshore assets.

The contract covers in-depth vibration data analysis, lubrication oil analysis and equipment process analysis as well as other specialist investigations for Total.

“This type of contract portrays the value-added solutions SKF is able to offer in providing proven condition-based maintenance solutions,” says Vartan Vartanian, president of SKF Service Division. “SKF has the knowledge and the human resources to execute such challenges globally.”

Comments Alan Messié, operations manager for Total E&P UK: “We see our partnership with SKF as an important step in supporting our strategy of improving equipment reliability, thus enabling us to reduce unplanned equipment downtime and helping with Total’s commitment to meet safety, health, environment and quality requirements.”

Total E&P is one of the principal exploration and production subsidiaries of the Total Group, which is the fifth largest publicly traded oil and gas company in the world.