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The transition from fossil fuels to clean energy sources has seen the renewable energy sector experience massive growth over the last decade, a significant part of which is accounted for by wind power. With offshore wind arrays mushrooming off the coasts of countries all over the world, around 2.5% of global energy output was being generated from wind farms at the end of 2010, a figure which experts expect to increase ten-fold by 2050.

The rapidly growing wind energy sector has opened up new opportunities for the marine services industry; and make no mistake, the commercial potential within an industry which is already worth hundreds of millions is mind-boggling for the companies with the specialist personnel, equipment and industry knowledge to exploit it. Nordic Offshore Marine is one of those companies.

The birth child of a merger which took place between Nordic Offshore and Marine Offshore earlier in 2012, Nordic Offshore Marine, based in Faaborg, Denmark is a ISO 9001:2008 certified maritime services provider which combines a personnel contracting arm enabling it to source the finest talent in the industry with an offshore projects branch which takes on surveying and marine cable installation & maintenance projects for the telecommunications and more recently, the renewable energy sector.

“Primarily, our main line of work in the past has been in the installation and maintenance of sub-sea cables for the telecommunications sector, not to mention conducting surveys. However whether installing cables for the telecommunications sector or power cables which run from wind farms to the mainland, the principles are the same. It was important to diversify, the renewables market is the future.”

With a single office and no more than 40 permanent staff on its payroll, Nordic Offshore Marine is by no means a large business compared to other larger players in the industry. However let not the size deceive you, as Nordic Offshore Marine’s quality over quantity approach to business has seen it develop a polished reputation and is respectfully thought of in the marine services industry as a business which has been equal to the challenge of every project taken on to date.

“It is as simple as this; what we say is what we do. Between myself and three of the other founding members of the business, we have over 100 years experience in this industry. For example, this emphasis on quality has been our main focus on the personnel contracting side of our business. Our clients know that our database has people from across the world with the right qualifications and experience to do the job, be it in machining, equipment handling or any other area of marine operations.”

Following the successful merger which has seen the two former companies Nordic Offshore and Marine Offshore

In much the same way as everything else these days, the marine services industry is changing quickly; due in large part to the global push towards clean energy sources. Soren Mikkelson, Managing Director of the newly formed Nordic Offshore Marine told Djamil Benmehidi about its successful merger and plans in the face of a changing market.

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pull together harmoniously, Nordic Offshore Marine now possesses full in-house capabilities and owns all of the necessary equipment to enable the company to take on any smaller project independently. In addition to this, Nordic Offshore Marine’s acquisition of the OMS Pollux, a multi-purpose ship which can accommodate a crew of 18 and is capable of serving the offshore industry in a variety of tasks, ranging from conducting surveys via the use of ROV’s to sea bed sampling to simply performing guard duties for example, has given them a global reach and the capability to operate anywhere in the world.

Recently, Nordic Offshore Marine has just successfully completed two UK based projects in the Irish Sea alongside the UK based diving company, Osiris Marine Services whereby the two companies were contracted to fault-find and then repair two major interconnectors linking Ireland to the British mainland. Though on this occasion Nordic Offshore Marine did not use the OMS Pollux, it chartered the DP1 cable and repair vessel ‘Atlantis’ which had been equipped with the Rotech excavation tool, ROV, dive spread and cable handling equipment among other things.

Following completion of this project in mid-October, Nordic Offshore Marine immediately mobilised it’s workforce and equipment in preparation for a major route clearance project off the coast of Brazil, having chartered a local vessel for the job.

“We often charter a local vessel and then send our equipment via container ship to where it is needed. Though we have our own vessel, there are many variables to consider.”

Following a successful 2012 for the fledgling company, Soren believes that Nordic Offshore Marine will continue to take this success into the new year and has set out a future strategy to ensure that the business continues to go from strength to strength.

“Undoubtedly our main goal for next year is to continue growing as a business and to continue increasing our capabilities. We are looking to expand our number of vessels by 1 or 2 so that we can start to build a fleet to accompany our existing ship.

We want to move from being a tier 3 provider which we are currently to a tier 2 or 1 provider instead. This is why in addition to more ships, we are also looking to increase the amount of equipment that we have, as well as our number of staff. After all, you can have all the equipment and ships in the world but without the right numbers and quality of people to man them, it is pointless.

On the contracting side, we are aiming for 100% growth which is very achievable. We will continue to source the right officers and crew who have the right character.”

In relation to the wider industry, Soren also told us how he believes that the marine services industry will to continue to gravitate further towards the renewables sector.

“We think there may be a dip in the telecommunications side of the market because of market trends but we are hopeful that the growing renewables sector will make up for this. We will soon be appointing a new CEO to help lead the company to achieve our goals and he is a well-known man in the industry, it should be a good year.”

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