An Aberdeen company has grown its workforce by nearly 20% in a year in response to growing demand from the oil and gas industry for its specialist equipment and services.
RMSpumptools, based at Dyce, now employs more than 80 people, and the expansion has also seen it set up a new subsea division.
The growth comes in the wake of a merger between two companies, Pumptools and Remote Marine Systems (RMS), by their parent, James Fisher and Sons, a year ago.
Fisher, which acquired Pumptools for £7.7million in 2007, kept the headquarters for the enlarged RMSpumptools business in Aberdeen and manufacturing is at Malton in North Yorkshire.
The new jobs created during the past year mean the workforce at Dyce has swelled to about 30.
RMSpumptools has also expanded its Malton facility, creating an extra 4,000sqft of office space to allow room for future growth. The company said its investment, for an undisclosed sum, would enable it to provide a broader range of products and services to its oil and gas sector clients.
RMSpumptools also has new vice-presidents for its western and eastern hemisphere operations – Doug Harwell and Eddie Moore.
Managing director Stan Foster-Rooke said the company’s expansion was timely despite the difficult economic climate and “a great deal of uncertainty and hesitancy” by industry in terms of growth and investment.
RMSPumptools had continued to grow its business and prepare the way for further expansion, he added.
Mr Foster-Rooke said the recruitment drive and other actions over the past year underpinned a commitment to making sure the firm was “in the best possible position to fully develop the global reach of the company going forward.”
RMSpumptools specialises in artificial lift electrical submersible pump applications.
It has representative offices throughout the world at locations including Thailand, Oman, Ecuador, Colombia, the US and Australia.
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