Wood Group establishes new center of excellence in data analytics

GALWAY, Ireland -- Wood Group has established a new data analytics center of excellence at its office in Galway, Ireland.

Enhancing Wood Group’s digital solutions capabilities, a key focus of the center will be the innovative application to the energy industry, of data analytics technologies developed and deployed across other industries.

Wood Group is looking to grow the data analytics team to ten people by year-end, with the intention of developing further employment opportunities next year.

Bob MacDonald, CEO, Specialist Technical Solutions, Wood Group, said, “We recognize the power of data analytics to enable our energy industry clients to optimize their exploration and drilling activities, enhance efficiencies and maximize the productivity of their assets.

“This new center, made possible through the support of the IDA, greatly enhances our specialist technical capabilities, enabling us to handle large quantities of data effectively and embrace and explore new innovations and technologies for the oil & gas, industrial, utility and power sectors. This broadening of our capability in data analytics, married with our strong expertise and heritage in engineering will create exciting new opportunities for efficiencies that will directly benefit our clients.”