International energy services company John Wood Group PLC and international engineering and construction company Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) have announced the formation of Wood Group-CCC, a joint venture to provide operations and maintenance services for the oil and gas and petrochemical industries in Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, Bahrain and Yemen.
Commenting on the development, Les Thomas, board director for Wood Group Production Facilities, said, “The Wood Group–CCC joint venture combines Wood Group’s market-leading engineering, operations and maintenance expertise with CCC’s market-leading engineering and construction capabilities and substantial regional resource base in the Middle East to bring a new highly complementary service to companies operating in the region.”
Over the next 10 years it is estimated there will be $600 billion of investment in oil and gas and petrochemical plants in the region with a need for ongoing operations and maintenance support. Wood Group–CCC is a powerful combination that has the people, equipment, skills and experience to provide that support.
Samer Khoury, executive vice president for operations, CCC, said both companies had put health, safety, environment, people, competence and training at the top of their agendas and the joint venture represented a major step towards providing a broader capability to their Middle East clients.
Wood Group is an international energy services company with $5 billion sales, employing more than 26,000 people worldwide and operating in 46 countries.  The Group has three businesses—Engineering and Production Facilities, Well Support, and Gas Turbine Services—providing a range of engineering, production support, maintenance management and industrial gas turbine overhaul and repair services to the oil and gas, and power generation industries worldwide.
CCC is the largest engineering and construction company in the Middle East region employing 180,000 people in 40 countries.  It provides project management, engineering, procurement and construction services to clients in the oil and gas and petrochemical industries.  CCC is a pioneer in executing plant construction on a partnership basis with international engineering companies, including EPC contracts for upstream oil and gas, water and oil and gas pipelines; EPC contracts for high quality buildings, industrial buildings, infrastructures and networks; complete construction of petrochemical plants and refineries, oil loading and offloading terminals and storage facilities, heavy and light industrial plants, plus the heavy civil construction of power and desalination plants, water treatment plants and distribution systems, sewage treatment plants, dams and reservoirs, harbours and docks, airports, bridges and highway interchanges, roads and highways. 
The company is certified by BVQI to ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001.