ESS nets seven figure Beatrice windfarm contract
Banchory-based engineering firm Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has clinched a contract worth £1million-plus for the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm project.
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New MD appointed to drive growth at Ecosse Subsea Systems
North-east firm Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) said yesterday it had hired oil and gas industry veteran Mark Gillespie as managing director to drive “significant” growth over the next five years.
Former Shell projects boss joins Ecosse Subsea Systems
Engineering firm Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has hired a former supply chain manager at Shell as its first ever commercial manager.
ESS ties up new funding package to support growth plans
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS), based in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, said yesterday it had secured a new multimillion-pound finance package to support its ambitious growth plans.
North and north-east projects shine at Scottish Green Energy Awards
An Aberdeen renewable-energy project funded and organised by a community group bagged two top awards at a ceremony attended by more than 1,200 guests in Edinburgh last night.
Ecosse wraps up work on £5m seabed clearance project
Banchory-based engineering firm Ecosse Subsea Systems said yesterday it had finished work on a £5million contract to clear the seabed for an offshore wind farm.
Ecosse Subsea Systems doubles workload on Baltic wind farm project
Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) has doubled its workload on a Baltic Sea wind farm project, the Banchory-based engineering firm said today. Italian company Prysmian Group last year subcontracted ESS to carry out pre-cut seabed trenching for Wikinger, a planned 70-turbune wind farm off Germany. ESS has now agreed to take on the route clearance and seabed preparation work on the Wikinger development, which has been led by Spain’s Iberdrola since 2010.
Aberdeenshire engineering firm reaping benefits of renewables switch
A Banchory-based engineering firm is making its work in the renewable energy industry pay after diversifying from the oil and gas sector. Ecosse Subsea Systems (ESS) said more than half of its projects are now in renewables. Yesterday it confirmed that the decision to branch out into the sector has played a big part in tripling the firm’s profits. ESS, which performs seabed clearance, trenching and cable laying work, said revenues hit £15million for the year ending March 2014, an 88% increase, while operating profits went up to £3.4million from £1million.