Our Sectors

Brimmond has a long history of working with clients within the Marine & Defence sectors. Work we have undertaken includes installing, maintaining and servicing lifting, mechanical and hydraulic systems.

Some key Marine and Defence projects Brimmond have been involved in include:

• Refurbishment of 80 Tonne Meter Marine Knuckle Boom Cranes for a Naval Client. Brimmond have completely stripped and refurbished a number marine cranes. The cranes are stripped to component form, inspected, repainted to a NORSOK M501 paint specification, reassembled and fully function tested on our in-house test bed prior to installation on the vessel. Once installed Brimmond also carry out routine maintenance and load tests on the cranes to ensure they are kept in perfect working order.
• Rental of 45 Tonne Meter Marine Cranes to a Marine client with Workboats. Workboats on the West Coast of Scotland are subjected to exceptionally harsh environmental conditions. Brimmond offer a unique service that prevents any downtime. We can rent you a crane, whilst refurbishing your existing cranes. Typically the removal of the existing crane and installation of the new asset is less than 24 hours, with Brimmond handling everything, from interfacing wit the vessels existing pedestal to craneage.
• Commissioning of new crane: As the exclusive, approved partner for Heila Marine Cranes within the UK, Brimmond are the only UK based company approved to install Heila Cranes. Recently installing and commissioning an HLRM140-4SL onto a clients Workboat.
• Urgent maintenance on a clients tug vessel: During a routine maintenance call to a clients vessel, it was noted that the crane required maintenance to the main cylinders and slew motors. Our Mobile Hydraulic Technicians removed the crane and it was brought to our workshop in Aberdeen. Within a matter of weeks the essential maintenance was carried out, and the crane was delivered back to our client, with our Mobile Hydraulic Technician reinstalling, commissioning and load testing the crane.

Brimmond has grown and adapted with the renewables sector, establishing itself as a provider of equipment and services to the renewable marketplace.

To ensure Brimmond is aligning with the energy transition, we recently took part in the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s Fit For Offshore Renewables (F4OR) Programme, funded by the Energy Transition Zone (ETZ) Ltd.

Some key Renewables projects Brimmond have been involved in include:

• Manufacture, Assembly and Testing of a Remotely Operated Subsea Anchoring Tool. The Subsea Anchoring ROV is used to install subsea anchors for tethering floating tidal turbines to.
• Design, Manufacture and Rental of Subsea Dredging Equipment. For decades Brimmond have manufactured and rented equipment to support Controlled Flow Excavation (CFE). CFE is used widely for cable burial for offshore windfarms. The equipment includes: Electric or Diesel Hydraulic Power Units, Umbilical Spoolers and Jetting Pumps.
• Design and Manufacture of a 110kW EHPU to power a monopile upending tool. The power unit will be installed on a windfarm installation vessel.

We engineer equipment in our Aberdeenshire workshop that is used in a vast range of environments, and our decades of experience within the oil and gas sector enabled us to adapt and tailor our services and equipment to align with the decommissioning sector.

With older assets becoming more economically viable to decommission, Brimmond modified its rental fleet and bespoke engineering solution to support this sector. 

Some key Decommissioning projects Brimmond have been involved in include:

• Design and manufacture of zone 1 and safe area electric hydraulic power units and hydraulic control units for powering and operating a diamond wire cutting machine with a cut of up to 240’’.
• Attic oil recovery – pneumatically powered, zone 1, filtration, pumping and metering skid for the recovery of attic oil from a gravity-based production platform.
• High capacity knuckle boom cranes – rental, installation and commissioning of an Effer 175000-6S onto various aging production platforms to assist with the Plugging and Abandonment campaign.
• Jacking tower / well recovery system – hydraulic system design and installation. Brimmond provided the hydraulic control system for a 300-metric tonne jacking tower/ well recovery system. Our hydraulic circuit design allowed the system to be controlled through one central control unit, which also provided real time load monitoring. Brimmond also supplied, installed and commissioned two 27.5 Tonne Meter knuckle boom cranes.