NorSea Group (UK) has established a new executive team to lead the company’s growth in Scotland.
Walter Robertson has been appointed managing director while Mike Munro becomes the company’s first operations director.
Walter has 30 years’ experience in the logistics sector and was appointed MD following an extensive period of consultancy with the company. Prior to that, he had a 28 year career with the ASCO Group at managing director level.
From 1998 to 2006, as MD of Enviroco, he oversaw the establishment and running of the company which was set up as a joint venture to provide environmentally focused waste management solutions to the UK Oil and Gas industry.
As operations director, Munro will be responsible for all operational activity at NorSea Group (UK)’s logistics bases at Aberdeen, Montrose, Peterhead and Scrabster harbours. He has marine and logistics experience at senior level on projects in the UK and overseas. Prior to joining NorSea Group he spent seven years with Peterson (United Kingdom), as divisional operations manager based in Aberdeen but spent a lot of time developing the company’s overseas business in the international market. Having spent 23 years with Total E&P, Munro spent eight years in the Middle-east with Qatar Petroleum before returning to Aberdeen.
The company will make further announcements about additional appointments to the executive team within the next few weeks.
“Despite the current market conditions, we are excited about the opportunities for growth and development that are being presented to NorSea Group (UK),” said Robertson. “We are principally known as an offshore logistics and base services company, supporting the Oil & Gas and renewables sectors however, we are expanding our areas of activity with a strong focus on the “small piece” decommissioning market. We have already secured a major decommissioning contract, which is being serviced through our deep-water support base at Smith Quay in Peterhead, this being a first for North-East Scotland. We are actively tendering for other opportunities in this growing sector of the market.”
Munro said: “I’m looking forward to working with Walter to develop NorSea Group’s decommissioning activity. From our four principal bases we are well placed to support projects right around the north and east coasts from the area West of Shetland right through the Northern and Central North Sea.”
NorSea Group (UK) was established as the UK wing of its Norwegian parent company NorSea Group in 2013 when it opened its first office in Aberdeen. Since then there has been significant growth in the company’s business activity in the UK. In addition to establishing a presence in Aberdeen, NorSea Group acquired Danbor, a Danish offshore logistics company and its UK assets are now incorporated into NorSea Group (UK).
NorSea has a long term agreement with Scrabster Harbour Trust, a 15-year lease at South Quay in Montrose and in Q3 2014 made a major move into Peterhead by taking operatorship of Smith Quay and Embankment at Peterhead on a 10-year agreement. This is phase 1 of a 3 phase development that will see expansion onto Merchants Quay and provide 400m of deep-water quayside berthing supported by over 50,000sq m of quayside laydown area.
In 2014, the company also moved to new premises at NorSea Group House in Altens, providing the company with its own 4000sq m warehouse, 15,000sq m concreted yard and 800sq m of office space.