Wood arrives at Gastech with a new name beneath its own
Wood’s stand at Gastech poses a simple question: “Where do you stand on the future of energy?” It is the sort of line designed to start a conference conversation, but this year it carries extra weight for the engineering group itself.
Beneath the Wood logo now sits another: “a Sidara company”. It is a small visual change on a large stand, yet it marks a new chapter for a business with more than 160 years of engineering history and a presence across many of the energy industry’s most difficult projects.
The work has not become simpler
Ownership may change, but the problems clients bring to Wood remain stubbornly practical. Existing oil and gas assets still need to operate safely and efficiently. LNG capacity is expanding. Industrial facilities need to cut emissions. Hydrogen, carbon capture, power and renewables all need engineering that can move them from ambition into operation.
Wood works across that entire spread, from consulting and front-end design to project delivery, maintenance and asset optimisation. The company says it supports operations responsible for around 30 per cent of global LNG production and has worked on more than 30 per cent of the world’s carbon-capture projects.
“Our energy supporting your energy”
That is the other line displayed prominently on the stand. It works because Wood is not selling a single turbine, vessel or process package. It is selling the engineering judgement needed to connect thousands of decisions across the life of an asset.
The company’s current portfolio reflects an industry trying to do several things at once. Wood continues to support conventional energy security while building capabilities in hydrogen, carbon capture, electrification, renewable power and industrial decarbonisation. These are not separate worlds. More often, they meet inside the same project.
A test for the next chapter
The Sidara name brings a new corporate backdrop, but the test will be operational. Clients will want continuity in expertise, confidence that complex projects can still be delivered, and evidence that the enlarged group can turn broader capability into better outcomes rather than extra layers.
That makes Wood one of the more interesting stands at Gastech this year. The story is not simply a change of ownership or a new logo treatment. It is whether one of the industry’s best-known engineering names can use that change to sharpen its role in an energy system that is becoming more complicated, not less.
The Stratawire is reporting from Gastech 2026 in Bangkok.