INDUSTRY NEWS
Oil & Gas Product Design Company Going For Growth
A2E, one of the country’s leading product design companies, has taken additional space at its Livingston headquarters to cope with increasing demand for its services.
The company which has 18 employees has taken an extra 600 sq ft of floor at the Alba Innovation Centre.
The 50% increase in office space has come about as a result of a strong pipeline of new business and recruitment of more personnel.
Managing Director, David Ross said: “A number of major new projects have come in over the past few months and we have had to ramp up recruitment
including the appointment of several new engineers. We have acquired additional office space at Alba to ensure we have ample room to grow as we recruit more engineers and project managers.”
A2E celebrates 20 years in business this year. To date the company has worked on 400 projects for 120 customers. The company works across a number of industry sectors but has specialist expertise in the oil and gas sector; in particular developing devices which are intrinsically safe. In 2019 the company became part of Kansas-based Pivot International offering access to an additional 105 development engineers worldwide as well as Pivot’s global manufacturing capabilities. This means the company can provide a complete end-to-end
David Ross – Managing Director, A2E
product development solution from concept and prototyping to full commercialisation and manufacture.
Glasgow-based product design company Wideblue is also part of the Pivot group. Together with A2E they represent Scotland’s largest independent product design group.
Major Contract Award for Mermaid Subsea UK
Just months after the completion of its inaugural vessel-based well plugging and abandonment (P&A) campaign, Mermaid Subsea Services UK has announced the award of a major multi-well contract, to be carried out on behalf of a North Sea operator.
Accounting for the creation of up to 12 new roles at Mermaid’s Aberdeen headquarters, the two-year contract will comprise the decommissioning of 22 wells and represents the integrated subsea provider’s largest contract to date.
With activity already underway, Mermaid Regional Director, Scott Cormack comments: “We are delighted to announce the award of this contract,
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which follows hot on the heels of our well P&A activity during Q4 2022 with collaborative partner, Exceed.
“This project serves to underline the reputation we have so quickly gained for safe, efficient and cost-effective vessel-based well P&A, which draws upon our core team’s combined track record across the decommissioning sector.
“Well P&A has been highlighted time and again as an important lever in the reduction of what accounts for approximately 50% of all costs within the decom sector. The vessel- based P&A approach provided by Mermaid results in significant agility and flexibility across the whole work scope, which plays a critical role in the drive to reduce the North Sea’s decommissioning bill.”
Scott Cormack, Regional Director, Mermaid Subsea Services UK
Mermaid Offshore COO, Paul Whiley added: “Congratulations to Scott and the Aberdeen team for what’s been achieved here, as Mermaid continues to focus on this sunrise space for our offshore energy activities. Our strategy remains to provide quality to the proponent and returns to our stakeholders in equal measure.”
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