Rapidly-growing subsea specialist ROVOP has been recognised for its remarkable achievements in offshore renewables by winning the Business Growth award at last night’s Scottish Green Energy Awards. Within just 18 months of its inception, ROVOP has fast become a leading industry player after successfully carving out a niche for itself as an independent company that is 100% focused on specialist, rapid-response remotely-operated vehicle (ROV) solutions for the subsea oil, gas and offshore wind industry.
The company has expanded from two employees and contractors to more than 30 staff and contractors. A total of GBP 3M has already been invested in ROVs and a further commitment of GBP 15M will see the company purchase five hydraulic ROVs over the next 18 months and which is expected to create around 60 jobs.
ROVOP received the Scottish Renewables’ accolade at the awards ceremony held in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. The award is the second that ROVOP has won within the last six months. In June, ROVOP was named Promising New Business at the 2012 Grampian Awards for Business Enterprise while the company was also short listed in Subsea UK’s 2012 business awards for Best New Enterprise.
In October last year, ROVOP announced they had signed contracts worth GBP 7M for work at offshore windfarms at Thornton Bank in Belgium, Anholt in Denmark and Global Tech 1 in Germany, as well as in the UK at London Array, the largest offshore windfarm in the world.
