Chelmsford, Thursday 31 August 2017. The Global Marine Group (GMG), a market leader in offshore engineering services to the renewables, telecommunications and oil & gas industries, announced today that it has expanded its operations base in the United Kingdom to include the Port of Blyth, Northumberland. Blyth, a modern, well-specified port, has emerged as a major support base for UK offshore energy projects. Operating from the Port of Blyth, both of GMG’s two business units, CWind, which provides services to the offshore wind industry, and Global Marine, which provides fibre optic cable solutions to multiple sectors, will be able to offer regionally-focused support, resulting in faster mobilisation, greater flexibility and enhanced response times for customers.

The expansion to the Port of Blyth is the latest step in GMG’s plan for continued growth and the development of a suite of local operational hubs situated where customers need support. Beginning in August, Blyth will serve as a regional base for strategic asset management and modular equipment storage, as well as a mobilisation and deployment site for the GMG fleet, complementing the Group’s existing operational UK bases at Grimsby, Lincolnshire and Portland, Dorset. A number of GMG assets, including C.S. Sovereign and CS Recorder, two highly capable, multi-role DP2 vessels with excellent track records in both power and fibre optic cable installation and repair, will operate out of Blyth, utilising local engineering skills and regional business support networks.

Recently, CS Recorder and Q1000, a jet-trenching remotely operated vehicle (ROV), mobilised from Blyth to undertake a cable reburial contract for the Prinses Amaliawindpark, located off the West Coast of the Netherlands. Subsequently, the port will serve to mobilise future telecommunications and power projects for the GMG.

Portland will continue to provide services to GMG’s power, renewable energy, oil & gas and telecommunications cable maintenance agreement customers, while Grimsby will predominantly deliver regional support for the offshore wind sector. Blyth will enable GMG access to a wider market in the Greater North Sea, as well as further afield in Europe, where a large offshore wind customer base already exists.

“It has been a pleasure to work with the Port of Blyth, which has been extremely supportive throughout our integration period,” said Ian Douglas, Chief Executive Officer of Global Marine Group. “We expect that by operating in close physical proximity to our customers, suppliers and trusted partners, we will further strengthen our relationships with key market players and continue to reinforce our reputation for delivering projects safely, on time and to a high level of quality. The combination of being in the right physical location, having a team of highly-capable onshore and offshore staff and access to Group assets, enables us to offer cohesive installation and maintenance services to our customers in multiple sectors.”

“We are very pleased to have attracted a company with the profile of Global Marine Group to operate from the Port of Blyth,” said Martin Lawlor, Chief Executive of the Port of Blyth. “We view this as another critical step forward in our development as an offshore energy base. We believe building infrastructure and partnerships in a single location is the formula for growth and innovation in the sector.”

Chelmsford, Wednesday, 2 August 2017. Employees of the Global Marine Group (GMG), a market leader in offshore engineering, will cycle more than 200 miles in two days fundraising for the children’s charity Brainwave through its Pedal Challenge.

On Friday 4^th August, a group of 18 GMG employees will don their lycra and leave sunny Essex behind as they cycle over 200 miles in two days to Portland, Dorset. The team of amateur and enthusiastic riders will set off at 6:00am from the Company’s Head Office in Boreham, Essex, before travelling through London and stopping off in Winchester overnight. The cyclists will resume in the morning, finishing the ride in Portland the following evening at one of GMG’s regional UK depots, a facility that provides strategic asset management and storage to support customers in the telecoms, offshore renewables and oil & gas markets.

The Pedal 2017 is not only a personal challenge for the riders but more importantly an excellent opportunity to raise vital funds for Brainwave (brainwave.org.uk), a national children’s charity that aims to improve mobility, communication skills and learning potential through a range of therapies for children with physical, sensory, learning, cognitive and behavioural difficulties. Last year GMG raised almost £16,000 for Brainwave, more than half of which was generated by the bike ride.

GMG would like to thank suppliers, partners and friends who have kindly sponsored the event: Animmersion, KAMBridge Associates, Osbit Ltd, Seafair UK, Wartsila, Hydraulics Online, Amphibia, Quadrant, IG Subsea Ltd and Simplex Turbulo. The team has already raised more than £2,500 and are still fundraising. For information about becoming a sponsor click here: justgiving.com/thepedal2017.

Heading into the summer months with resources engaged around the globe

Chelmsford, 25 April 2017,Chelmsford, 25 April 2017,Chelmsford, 25 April 2017,Chelmsford, Monday 5 June 2017. The Global Marine Group (GMG), a market leader in offshore engineering, is reporting a successful first five months of 2017 and what we expect will be a strong outlook for the rest of the year. All key assets from the GMG fleet are currently mobilised, either supporting maintenance zone agreements around the world, or on installation, maintenance or repair contracts.

“As we head into the summer months, we are extremely pleased about our robust activity level, which we feel is a reflection of our high performance standards, reputation and strong relationships across the industry,” said Ian Douglas, CEO of the Global Marine Group. “We are consistently mobilising quickly to deliver high-quality, on-time and on-budget solutions to all our customers’ which demands experience, proven know-how and the resources to get things right first time. We believe we have the personnel, vessels and technology to meet these demands.”

CWind, the group’s offshore power focused business, has its 18-strong fleet of Crew Transfer Vessels (CTVs) and another eight chartered vessels, busy supporting clients on key wind farms across the UK and Europe with a variety of subsea and topside solutions. In February of this year it was announced that CWind would incorporate the resources and power cable capabilities of its parent company, GMG, to expand the breadth of services it offers to wind farm owners and developers.

In addition to completing major scopes of work at the Godewind Offshore Wind Farm using a DPS-2 vessel, CWind has also recently utilised a key asset in the GMG fleet, C.S. Sovereign, to complete back-to-back power cable repairs. First, CWind finished the successful repair of a vital power cable that reconnected the Isles of Scilly to mainland electricity, and then another repair commissioned in the North Sea.

CS Recorder, a recent addition to the group’s fleet, has just completed remedial burial work on the CIEG (Channel Islands Electricity Grid) power cable between Guernsey and Jersey. The project benefitted from the mobilisation and deployment of another of the group’s assets, the Q1000 jet-trenching Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV), which offers 1000hp of total installed and variable jetting power. The Q1000 is ideal for trenching pipelines, umbilicals and cables to a burial depth of 3m at a speed of up to 400m per hour. CS Recorder will shortly begin work on another installation project.

Further afield, the group’s telecoms focused business, Global Marine, who have installed over 300,000km or 21% of all subsea cable across the world, has the Networker and her crew currently primed for a fibre optic cable installation project between Karimun and Batam in Indonesia. The Networker is the first purpose-built cable-working barge in South East Asia, and one of the largest vessels of her kind, ideally designed to deliver projects in shallow waters and narrow corridors.