Subsea training and safety specialist, the National Hyperbaric Centre, is opening an office in Singapore amid plans to target business growth in the Asia Pacific region.
The Aberdeen-based firm, which offers subsea training, consultancy and testing services, says it is striving to become the centre of excellence for subsea safety.
The new Singapore office is set to open in Q2 this year, and follows the launch of subsea-related training courses in the Middle East and South Africa last year.
“The Asia Pacific and going as far as Australia and New Zealand really seems to be an area that is growing and expanding,” said commercial manager Laura Stewart.
“The North Sea remains the home market, and the Middle East is somewhere we are trying to expand into.”
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She said the primary focus of the Singapore base would be delivering training and consultancy services in the region.
“It will be a small office initially with a managing director and a small team, but we will fly contractors in,” said Ms Stewart.
“We want to build up a local group of people and by the end of the year I would like to think we are established there.”
She said the hunt for oil in deeper waters was unlikely to remove the need for subsea divers – a key component of work at the firm is diver training.
“The challenge is that we are diving deeper and therefore we have to have the capacity to test equipment at further depths than five years ago,” said Ms Stewart.
She said the firm is set to invest around £2million in new facilities to allow it to test kit at deeper depths.
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