Corporate

Rotech is a technology-driven group of companies providing innovative products to the energy industry. The company is based in Aberdeen, Scotland.

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We are industry experts in fluid dynamics and turbo-machinery, particularly focussed on downhole and subsea tools.

Current projects include a drilling turbine for the oil and gas industry, and a tool for safely cleaning out contaminated fluids and sediments from off-shore installations during decommissioning.

Our ongoing research and development business has been underpinned by successful licensing of downhole technology to major global service companies, and the recent successful sale to REEF Subsea of the Rotech Subsea excavation business, together with its operating bases in Singapore in Houston and it’s sales facilities in Mexico, Australia and Brazil.

The Rotech Group also includes a high quality fabrication business for the local off-shore market.

Ethos //

The Rotech Group has a duty of care towards the environment, the communities in which it operates and to its employees.

Rotech will endeavour to continuously make a positive impact on the environment and on the communities where we work and we will always strive towards ensuring best practice for the health and safety of our employees.

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The Rotech Group will act with honesty and integrity in all of our business dealings.

We will promote trust, respect and support through open and honest dialogue and we will maintain high ethical standards with each individual and organisation that we are working with.

The Rotech Group is focussed on encouraging the continuous development of our team.

We provide a working environment where each individual can enjoy a challenging and rewarding role and we offer everyone in our team the opportunity to develop skills and realise their full potential.

The Rotech Group is driven to create innovative solutions.

We encourage our professional and experienced team to thrive on innovation. We will always work towards generating creative solutions to meet technical challenges and our customers’ needs. Creativity needs space to develop and we offer our team the freedom to succeed.

The Board //


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Ken Stewart

Managing Director

Ken co-founded and formed Rotech in 1994 with Dr Hector Susman following the purchase of the fabrication business of Volker Stevin Offshore (UK) Ltd.

With Hector, he changed the nature and direction of the business to focus on technology development for the energy industry, with applications in oil and gas, geothermal, offshore wind and tidal energy.

Prior to forming Rotech, Ken worked in private practice with international and local accountancy firms.

He is a Chartered Accountant, a Chartered Tax Adviser and a graduate of Aberdeen University.


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Donald Stewart

Director of Engineering

Don was educated initially at The University of Glasgow, where he was awarded a B.Sc. Honours degree in Computer Science.

This was to be followed some years later by a Ph.D. in Non-linear Dynamics from the Dept of Engineering at Aberdeen University. From University he joined the Royal Air Force as a trainee pilot.

On leaving the Air Force he worked in the printing industry in Glasgow for a short while, before joining Rotech in 1996.

He became the Research and Development Manager in 2000 and Director of Rotech Engineering in 2003. His particular areas of interest are fluid dynamics and turbo-machinery, and he is a named inventor on many Rotech patents.


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George Bell

CFO

George was educated at Perth Academy and the University of Aberdeen, graduating in 1981 with an honours degree in history.

After spending a couple of years working in the character-shaping environment of the operating theatre of Aberdeen Maternity Hospital he returned to university where he gained a postgraduate accountancy qualification. He began as a trainee with one of the larger independent accountancy practices in Aberdeen and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1990.

After a number of years in the role of Audit Manager, he left to take charge of the audit department of a similarly sized practice in 1998.

George continued to monitor the progress of his former client during this time and joined Rotech in 2005 as Chief Financial Officer at a time when the Group was seeking to significantly expand the scale of its operations


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Martin Graham

Engineering Manager

Martin is a Chartered Civil Engineer with nearly 20 years postgraduate experience in the construction and oil and gas industries.

He studied at Glasgow University for five years, where he graduated with a Masters degree in Civil Engineering in 1995.

He worked as a Civil/Structural Engineering Consultant at Fairhurst in Aberdeen for seven years, also gaining experience with contractors Hunter Construction and Balfour Beatty.

Martin gained Chartered status in 2000 following successful completion of his professional review.

In 2002 he moved to Rotech, where he was appointed Engineering Manager in 2005, and was an integral part of the team that grew the Subsea business.

Martin was appointed to the board at the end of 2011.

History //

1994: Dr Hector F.A. v Drentham-Susman and Ken R. Stewart formed Rotech in Aberdeen out of the fabrication business of Volker Stevin Offshore (UK) Limited, with the goal of establishing a group of companies focussed on developing new technologies for the offshore energy industry;

Commenced development of an innovative downhole motor, the MacDrill, for oil, gas and geothermal applications.

1996: First commercial MacDrill field trials in Norwegian Sector of the North Sea for BP and Statoil.

1997: Geothermal work with MacDrill successfully completed at 575oF.

1998: Licensed MacDrill technology to Weatherford International Inc.

First commercial field trial of Rotech “T” subsea excavation equipment successfully completed on the Cardiff Bay Barrage project.

2000: First post-trenching of a 70km 36” pipeline completed in Egypt; Rotech Subsea Ltd formed.

2003: Commenced development of the Rotech Tidal Turbine under the DTI Sustainable Energy Programmes

2004: Rotech Subsea USA LLC formed to services US GOM.

2005: First deepwater excavation completed in 1000 metres water depth.

2006: Opened sales and maintenance facilities at Cunningham Business Park, Houston;

Singapore sales office opened and Rotech Subsea Asia Pacific PTE LTD formed.

2010: Sales office opened in Rio de Janeiro

2011: Rotech sells Rotech Subsea Ltd, including its USA and Singapore subsidiaries, to REEF AS of Norway.

2011: Rotech Group win contract with Shell to design a tool for decontaminating subsea structures prior to decommissioning.