Unity has secured more than £6 million in new contracts, led by a multi-million-pound North Sea well decommissioning project with a global operator, as the Aberdeen-based well integrity specialist invests in technology and international growth.
Under the North Sea agreement, Unity will deliver plugging and abandonment services, including the supply of required equipment, with inspection activity already underway. The award comes alongside three contract extensions and two Master Service Agreements with major oilfield service companies, strengthening the company’s position in late-life well integrity and decommissioning.
A separate 15-well thru-tubing services scope builds on Unity’s investment in well intervention tools, which allow operators and service companies to draw on integrated well integrity support from a single supplier. In mature and late-life fields, that approach can reduce the operational burden of coordinating inspection, intervention, isolation, plugging, and abandonment activity across several vendors.
Unity is committing £1.8 million to expand its specialist technology portfolio, with the investment focused on support across production, late-life, and abandonment phases. Its technology base covers surface and thru-tubing intervention, Phase 0 well integrity verification, Phase 1 plugging and isolation, and wellhead decommissioning and removal.
North Sea operators continue to manage ageing assets, rising intervention complexity, and tightening decommissioning schedules, creating steady demand for suppliers with proven well integrity capability. Unity says its experience spans more than 1,000 wells maintained and 300 well abandonment projects completed.
Gary Smart, CEO of Unity, said: “This has been a landmark phase of progression and uplift for Unity and I’m exceptionally proud of the results our team have delivered. We have made significant investment in our technology portfolio to ensure we can provide operators with assurance of well integrity from production to abandonment, and we are now turning our attention firmly to international growth.
“We have spent decades building specialist knowledge in well integrity in the UK with more than 1,000 wells maintained and 300 well abandonment wells completed. We recognised the opportunity to take that expertise global. APAC is a key market and we are already seeing strong early traction, with plans to expand our in-country capability over the coming year. We have a great team and with the addition of Gillian, Catherine, Aimée and Francis, and Stuart’s relocation, we are well-positioned to build on this momentum and accelerate our performance across our target markets.”
Senior appointments are being made to support the expansion, with Gillian King joining as Sales Director, Catherine Bain as Finance Director, Aimée Tennant as Head of Marketing, and Francis Newbatt as Technical Sales Manager. Unity also plans to add 17 people to its talent base this year.
Stuart Slater, who has worked with the business in Aberdeen since 2019, has relocated to Perth, Australia, as Region Manager – Asia Pacific. His move supports Unity’s first projects on mature assets in Australia and Malaysia, backed by a new in-country fleet of proprietary technology.
Unity is part of the FrontRow Energy Technology Group and operates from Aberdeen, Great Yarmouth, Esbjerg, Houston, and Perth.
