Offshore Group Newcastle
Offshore Group Newcastle or OGN Group are a British company that fabricate steel in North East England, often for oil platforms. It is Tyneside's largest manufacturing yard.
History[]
On 5 February 2016 it appeared in the episode Sea Cities Tyneside of BBC Two series .[1] Also appearing in the programme was the Shields Ferry and the Port of Tyne.[2] It also visited South Shields Marine School, part of South Tyneside College and the oldest marine school in the world, Target of Leif Höegh & Co from Norway, the Great North Run, MS Marina of Oceania Cruises, and the Old Low Light.
Political activity[]
The company donated over £100,000 to the Conservative Party during the 2019 United Kingdom general election[3]
Structure[]
It is an offshore fabrication yard on the north bank of the River Tyne in Wallsend, near Point Pleasant, opposite the former site of Hebburn Colliery.
Products[]
- Gas and oil platforms.
See also[]
- Floating production storage and offloading
- Severfield, of North Yorkshire, who built the Gateshead Millennium Bridge
- Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Company
- Category:Oil platforms off the United Kingdom
References[]
- ^ Sea Cities
- ^ Port of Tyne
- ^ "Donations". The Electoral Commission. Retrieved 29 May 2020.
External links[]
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- Companies based in Newcastle upon Tyne
- Conservative Party (UK) donors
- Engineering companies of England
- North Sea energy
- Offshore engineering
- Petroleum industry in the United Kingdom
- River Tyne
- Steel companies of the United Kingdom
- Structural steel
- Wallsend