A Co Tyrone engineering firm has invested £200,000 into a new base near Aberdeen, with improved access to oil and gas clients.
Decom Engineering is a decomissiong solutions specialist business. Established in Cookstown in 2011, it has developed technologies which it says provide greener, faster and safer solutions for decommissioning in the energy sector.
The new investment is anticipated to create up to six new engineering, design and administration posts in Aberdeen, with the facility intended to strengthen the firm's position to win further work.
In the last year, Decom has hosted a number of technology showcases and equipment trials in and around Aberdeenshire, which has led to securing contracts with major energy sector contractors.
It has already completed contracts in mainland Europe and Asia Pacific, and is tendering for new workscopes in Thailand, North America, Brazil and India.
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The company’s Pipe Coating Removal (PCR) equipment can strip and clean decommissioned or surplus pipelines of multiple coatings so they can be repurposed for use on other projects, while its range of cold cutting saws are in demand on international decommissioning projects as oil and gas operators replace or remove ageing infrastructure and redundant assets.
Sean Conway, Chief Executive Officer of Decom said that the business has also "invested more than £700,000 in ongoing research and development as we devise decommissioning technologies which are more environmentally friendly and cost effective."
“Aberdeen is a hotbed of technology companies who support the traditional oil and gas sector - and now the renewable energy industry - by innovating and developing cleaner, greener and safer ways of satisfying global energy demand," he continued.
“My family have close links to the oil and gas sector and Aberdeen, and the early part of my career in the decommissioning sector was spent in the north east of Scotland, so it is an area which has had a strong influence on how we have grown the business.
“Our focus is on the decommissioning sector and with many of the oil and gas majors increasingly focussed on the transition from hydrocarbons to renewable energy, opportunities for us to win new business in the UK Continental Shelf will undoubtedly grow.
“Previously we have rented premises or test facilities to showcase our products and expertise to North Sea clients, but having a local facility and staff is the next logical step, and we have identified a site and hope to be up and running by Q4 of this year.”
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