New Renewables Lead Created at Ashtead Technology
Continued Growth Prompts Team Expansion for Salus Technical
Aberdeenshire headquarted process safety firm, Salus Technical, have recently grown their team with the appointment of Andrea Ferdinands as a Process Safety Engineer.
Ashtead Technology has created a new role to head up its increasing activities in renewable energy.
The integrated underwater technology and services company has appointed Scott Stephen to oversee the firm’s growing presence and enhance its service offering to support the global renewables market.
Based at Ashtead’s recently opened Thainstone Technology Centre in Aberdeenshire, UK, Mr Stephen has been promoted to the role after four years with the company latterly as an Asset Integrity Business Development Manager and formerly as NDT Sales Manager.
Following a handful of strategic acquisitions over the past four years, Ashtead Technology has offshore operational bases in key locations including Abu Dhabi, Broussard, Halifax, Houma, Houston, London and Singapore. The company has been servicing the energy sector for 36 years with its bespoke underwater solutions, tools and systems.
The firm has in recent years been diversifying into the renewables market where its equipment fleet and engineering skills developed to support the oil and gas industry are also suited to the requirements of offshore wind developers’ installation and operations and maintenance (O&M) work.
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Andrea’s role will encompass managing customer accounts, supporting the
consulting arm of the business, hosting webinars and contributing to the creation of resources for the firm’s online and social media channels.
Andrea is currently based in Taipei, Taiwan, where she is well placed to support Salus Technical’s growing band of customers in Brazil and New Zealand. Andrea moved from Sri Lanka to the UK to study for a degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Nottingham. Following her graduation, she spent 9 years working as a Process Safety Engineer at Centrica. Working in engineering operations across the multinational group, Andrea led trials into the use of emerging technologies to improve these operations.
Andrea will be supporting the roll-out of the company’s Bowtie Master software. A cloud-based application aimed at enhancing and streamlining the risk assessment process, Bowtie Master facilitates the building and sharing of bowtie diagrams, offering unprecedented capabilities to design, collaborate on and share these diagrams across disciplines and organisations.
Oceaneering Wins Integrated Rig Services Contract for Gulf of Mexico Development
Oceaneering International, Inc. (Oceaneering) announced that its Subsea Robotics (SSR) and Offshore Projects Group (OPG) have been awarded an integrated rig services contract for covering the Khaleesi/Mormont and Samurai fields in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
The work scope includes the provision of remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) with collocated ROV tooling and technicians, remote positioning and metrology survey resources, and installation and workover control system (IWOCS) equipment and technicians. Work is scheduled to begin in 2021 and carry into 2022.
Earl Childress, Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer, said, “The operator’s decision to contract our robotics and IWOCS services is a positive and anticipated response to our realigned segments, which allows us to deliver the integrated processes and products that enable consistent and efficient work scopes.”
This award follows the recently awarded contract for Oceaneering’s Manufactured Products segment to supply 2-inch M5 connectors and chemical throttle valves for the Khaleesi/ Mormont and Samurai tieback project.
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