Leask Marine Wins Prestigious Award
Published on September 20 2014
The Fourth annual Energy North Awards held in Inverness on Thursday night (4th September 2014), saw Leask Marine collect the top award for the Best Renewable Energy Service Supplier.
Organised by Energy North the event recognises the important contribution companies from across the region make to the success of the renewable energy and supply chain industries. Leask Marine, the vessel charter and diving services provider, collected the prize for Best Renewable Energy Service Supplier against stiff competition from many respected and established businesses.
Over 250 people from across the region attended the glittering ceremony to celebrate energy’s finest at the new conference suite at the Kingsmills Hotel, Inverness. Hosted by Nicky Marr, with featured special guest, former Minister of State for Energy, Charles Hendry.
Douglas Leask commented: “We are delighted for the recognition and honour of becoming the Best Renewable Energy Service Supplier 2014 and thank Energy North for this award. We pride ourselves in providing our clients with uniquely developed processes and equipment. This award is a testament to the dedication and the hard work of the entire Leask Marine team”.
The award was presented in recognition that, since it was established in 1985, Leask Marine Limited has grown to become a world leader in wave and tidal marine technology supply chain service, successfully completing projects for many of the world’s leading marine energy converters. Leask Marine Ltd provide an unprecedented range of uniquely developed processes and equipment to support the mobilisation, deployment, installation, commissioning, service and maintenance, inspection and de-commissioning of the world’s foremost marine energy developers devices.
Leask Marine’s known experience and flexibility provides each client with a turnkey solution for their devices, and its unparalleled depth of expertise and experience offers a complete supply chain solution for marine equipment procurement and logistics.
Leask Marine operate from bespoke facilities, through a wide range of specialised vessels including multi-cats, multi-purpose workboats, landing craft, and fast crew transfer vessels. This range of flexible, but often specialised infrastructure has been developed with many years’ experience in supporting marine renewable energy clients, and has involved a major capital investment of over £7m+ in self-funding new fleet and equipment over the past few years as the number of client devices being trialled have increased.