Highland Council planning officers have recommended councillors grant planning permission in principle. View from SE at main entrance, showing Pipe Mill buildings. View from E of Maintenance Shop (? Further Details References MyCanmore Image Contributions Contribute an Image View from W of Shot-blast building, with Pipe Mill buildings beyond. The partners will recycle dredged sand as aggregate for concrete production, recycle steel from decommissioned oil rigs as reinforcement for concrete floating wind foundations and generate energy from waste.
Oil fabrication yard at Ardersier may re-open | HeraldScotland At its height, the yard employed about 4,500 people but it closed in 2001 as demand dropped. It includes more than 400 acres and more than a kilometre of quayside but has been disused for many years. Local Highland councillor Trish Robertson said: Its badly needed.
Port of Ardersier Up for Grabs | Offshore Wind Around two and a half thousand workers were paid off last, spring as work in the yard ran down, and there have been frequent, rumours that the yard's owners, US-based MacDermotts, was ready to pull, Now it has emerged that the yard is in the final stages of being, awarded a relatively small sub-contract for piling work for the Claymore, field, 110 miles north-east of Aberdeen, which is being developed by Elf, Enterprise. At its peak, there were over 3,000 staff employed at Ardersier constructing offshore platforms for the oil industry. But the involvement with SLP could develop into joint bids being, submitted by MacDermotts and SLP for the larger contracts due to be, awarded later this year. The site previously McDermotts employed more than 4000 people in the 1970s and 80s.
New owners have ambitious plans for Ardersier fabrication yard KPMG also said it would not be offering any further comment at the moment.. Ordnance Survey licence number 100057073. Mr Clowes died in February last year, with his son David, a former commercial pilot, taking over as chairman of the group in the same month. Les meilleures offres pour 1903 Glasgow, Stephen, Mitchel & Son, Tabac & Snuff, D Edvii Perfin To Arders sont sur eBay Comparez les prix et les spcificits des produits neufs et d 'occasion Pleins d 'articles en livraison gratuite! Do you know this baby? A spokeswoman for Highland Council said the authority did not know about the CWC Groups plans and the company had not yet been in touch with the planning department. The proposed. With 138 hectares (340 acres) of vacant land and a deep water quay, the purpose-built yard, located on the Moray Firth, 15 miles east of Inverness , is ideally placed to take a slice of the .
Work begins in Ardersier on the first new steelworks to be built in the View from S of Deck Assembly building (centre), with High-level Warehouse (left). CWC Group now lists the. Business partners Tony O'Sullivan and Steve Regan have acquired the former McDermott fabrication site from Clowes Developments for an undisclosed sum. The is located some 75km to the northeast of Fraserburgh on the Aberdeenshire coast. 1974 Those ads you do see are predominantly from local businesses promoting local services.
Derek Parsons - Owner and General Manager - LinkedIn The site comprising 400 acres of port area with access to a 2.2km quay and 350 acres of statutory harbour authority has been identified as one of three sites on the east coast of the UK with the size, scale, shape, and location capable of being an Offshore Renewable Energy Hub Port. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. The company has plans to use it for a range of purposes, including developing platforms for offshore wind turbines and decommissioning North Sea rigs. It will mean good, well paid jobs. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Copyright 2007-2023 STV. Oblique aerial view centred on the Ardersier Oil Rig Construction Yard under construction in 1973, taken from the SE. 2023- Highland News and Media Ltd. All rights reserved.
Elevated distant view of the Pipe Mill buildings from SSE. View of weighbridge at main entrance to yard. Although work fluctuates and the yard changes hands several times, it becomes a major employer in the area over the next 40 years. It all sounds very, very positive. Based in Brailsford, Derbyshire, the CWC Group was founded in 1964 by Charles Clowes, who went on to feature regularly in a London newspapers list of Britains richest people. According to the groups figures, it made pre-tax profits of 18.2million in the year to March 31, 2016, with a turnover of 46.6million for the year. Aerial view of Ardersier, site of former oil rig construction yard, E of Inverness, looking ENE. Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland, Courtesy of HES (James S Bone Collection). What science tells us about the afterlife. Ardersier, 14 miles east of Inverness, opened in the early 1970s and was used for building steel jackets for oil platforms. In the 1970s Ardersier - a vast and currently unused port 14 miles east of Inverness - was one of the largest oil rig fabrication yards in the world, employing up to 4500 workers. Read about our approach to external linking. Image clustering - assigning images labels - is an automated process, based on the image title/description. At its height the yard employed about 4,500 people, but it closed in 2001 as demand dropped. An oblique aerial view of the former Ardersier Oil Rig Construction Yard and Whiteness Head, near Nairn, looking NE. Scotland 4 year apprenticship as mechanic/ welder/ plater.
Thats a huge ambition and Im all in favour of it.. She was predeceased by her parents, her husband, James Connie Andrews, to whom she was married for 60 years, and her brother, Samuel Elzie Williams II.
Ardersier's dormant fabrication yard is set to take on a new life as one of Europe's most important locations for renewable energy and decommissioning, according to its new owners. Nairn West Junction is a proposed new junction on the A96 to the west of Nairn.It is to be constructed as part of the dualling plans for the A96 between Nairn and Inverness.The junction will be built to the south of the existing A96 line, on the site of Blackcastle Quarry, directly opposite the road built to access the Ardersier Fabrication Yard at Whiteness on the coast. Ardersier Port (Scotland) describes the facility as the largest brownfield port in the United Kingdom and say it has been identified as one of just three UK east coast sites with the size, scale, shape, and location capable of being an offshore renewable energy hub port. Ardersier Port has been sold to new owners who have ambitious plans for its future.
Transforming Ardersier Port into energy transition facility Moray Estates Development Company Apr 1973 - Feb 1982 8 years 11 months. CWC Group now lists the 700. CWC Group now lists the 700-acre site, near Nairn, among its nationwide portfolio of 118 properties, but the companys plans for the land are not yet known.
Item 6.5 Ardersier Port Ltd 20/00484/PIP (PLS-059-21) "Using circular economy practices the facility will accommodate multiple complementary work streams from decommissioning of oil and gas assets, recycling of wind turbines, production of sustainable aggregates and concrete, large scale manufacturing, offshore wind logistics and fabrication, sustainable energy production as well as offering its extensive marine facilities for the upgrade and maintenance of existing assets. Opened by US engineering group McDermott in 1972, at its height the Ardersier fabrication yard had some 4500 staff, making it the largest private sector employer in the Highlands. Everything will be re-used. SC045925. Apr 1994 - Sep 1998 4 years 6 months. Ardersier Port was opened by US engineering group McDermott in 1972, at its height the fabrication yard employed as many as 4,500 staff at its peak, making it the largest private sector employer in the Highlands. View from W along the SW side of the Pipe Mill buildings. What sparked a 'ferocious frenzy of bidding' at Dingwall Mart's sheep sale? "We strongly believe that a credible execution and industrialization plan, accurate cost assumptions, a proven and bankable technology, and the option to manufacture our concrete floating foundations locally will contribute to our projects successful execution. A former oil and gas industry fabrication yard at Ardersier near Inverness has been sold. View of the Pipe Mill buildings from SSE. Ash Regan: Breaking up Highland Council I think that's a very good idea, Humza Yousaf: CalMac should be 'decentralised and based in the heart of our community', PICTURES: World Book Day fun at Miller primary PICTURES: World Book Day fun at Miller primary, Kate Forbes: 'Lets start by breaking up Highland Council you heard it here first'. Harper Macleod LLP > Glasgow, Scotland > Firm Profile Harper Macleod LLP Offices View from W within Pipe Mill building, showing pit exposed by removal of large-scale plant. View from E of SE and NE (open) side of Deck Assembly building.
8 images in cluster Barmac Fabrication Yard in NH8057 The potential of this site, if put into productive use, is enormous and if that potential is realised, there is a clear prospect of the creation of a substantial numbers of jobs..
Plan to revive former fabrication site to create 4500 jobs