The firm took on a six-year lease of the 27,682sq ft building. This is double the space it previously occupied at Helix House, which it shared with sister company Canyon Offshore which remains there.
Well Ops currently employs 115 staff onshore and a further 350 offshore onboard its well intervention vessels MSV Seawell, Well Enhancer and the chartered Skandi Constructor which joined the fleet in 2013.
The addition of Skandi Constructor provides Well Ops’ clients with a vessel equipped to work in both harsh environments and deepwater subsea well locations, such as West Africa and waters West of Shetland.
Steve Nairn, Well Ops’ regional vice president of Europe and Africa, said: “In the past five years Well Ops has invested heavily in our operations in Scotland, adding two mono-hull well intervention vessels to our fleet; Well Enhancer in 2009 and the chartered Skandi Constructor in 2013.”
Upcoming projects planned for offshore Canada and West of Shetland, as well as a recently completed second well intervention campaign in offshore Equatorial Guinea – following a project in 2011, illustrates the diversity of environments in which Well Ops’ vessels and project teams operate.