Underwater Contracting (UCO), already proprietor of the world’s largest fleet of Saab Seaeye Falcon ROVs, has added to its pool by the acquisition of 5 new machines to provide it a complete of 38 Falcon techniques.
The Aberdeen, Scotland-headquartered firm, a supplier of underwater providers to the offshore vitality, inspection, development, and aquaculture markets, has expanded its fleet in response to main new multi-year contract wins throughout all sectors which can see it present a spread of providers in Europe, North America and the Center East.
As well as, UCO has made important funding in extra gear and now holds a inventory of £250,000 devoted Saab Seaeye Falcon spares and greater than £350,000 price of auxiliary gear starting from manipulators to station holding and the whole lot in between.
UCO has loved year-on-year development since coming into the market in 2017 by growth of its vary of providers and world sphere of operations. Specifically, it specialises within the improvement of progressive options which help the fast development of the aquaculture sector.
They embody the FOOVER mortality restoration system, NetFix, a singular ROV-deployed system to restore small holes in fish farm nets, and the newest improvement – collar cleansing gear for fish farms. These techniques at the moment are deployed world wide.
In 2022, UCO gained what continues to be believed to be one of many largest ROV contracts awarded to the worldwide aquaculture sector. The multi-million-pound contract represented greater than 27,000 ROV days over a five-year interval, breaking down to fifteen ROVs, working twelve months a yr over 5 years in tasks in Europe and North America.
UCO is a part of Ocean Marine Group with sister corporations Pirie & Smith and ETPM.
