The big question: which new regions are you targeting?

Executive Vice President – Energy at Speedcast

Speedcast is expanding our presence and infrastructure in locations where our customers need critical connectivity and support, including Brazil, Guyana, Saudi Arabia (KSA), offshore West Africa and other regions of growth. In Brazil, we recently scaled up our Macaé facility – the primary hub for our South American energy operations – upgrading our teleport infrastructure and extending office space to support our local footprint.

We will continue to invest in mature and emerging regions and markets of significant growth potential

In KSA, we’re nearing completion of our Newtec Hub build-out, following the successful launch of a new data room and office to serve regional customers. With both a general class Internet Service Provider licence and a non-terrestrial network licence, our Saudi company can provide very small aperture terminal services inside KSA.

Leveraging our SIGMA™ network management platform, along with the integration of Starlink into our connectivity toolkit, we will continue to invest in mature and emerging regions and markets of significant growth potential. Whether it’s an energy rig in the Persian Gulf or a floating production storage and offloading unit in the North Sea, we ensure a seamless, fully managed service that customers can rely upon.

About Speedcast

Speedcast delivers communications and IT services across sectors including maritime, energy and mining. It leverages its global network platform to provide fully connected systems that harness technologies and applications to transform what remote operations can achieve.

Business Development Director at TRS Workforce Solutions

TRS Workforce Solutions is targeting Asia and Australasia with its ONEMSP model to build on its success in the UK, Europe, the US and Canada. In preparation for this move, we conducted extensive market research to shape a tailored entry strategy – one that understands the regions’ unique demands and recognises renewable energy projects in the area.          

Asia is seeing a renewable energy boom, expecting to account for 50% of global renewable capacity by 2030, with more than 10m sector-specific jobs in the same period. Australasia will see its workforce double to achieve 82% renewable generation by 2029; New Zealand, 100% generation by 2035.

Government support for the Australia Renewable Energy Target is backing local talent acquisition initiatives and providing specialised training to ensure a skilled workforce is ready to meet complex project requirements. These large-scale projects require a diverse range of skills, from engineering to project management, necessitating a robust recruitment strategy that integrates with our capabilities, leveraging TRS Staffing Solutions’ local expertise in Asia and Australia.

Asia is seeing a renewable energy boom

The expansion of the ONEMSP Model is set to drive the region’s renewable energy ambitions by providing access to a skilled workforce, ensuring successful project delivery with enhanced visibility and control over workforce resource planning.

About TRS Workforce Solutions

TRS Workforce Solutions, a division of TRS Staffing Solutions, provides cost-efficient, compliant workforce solutions. Launched in January 2022, it developed and delivered the ONEMSP project model, expanding capability to optimise broader skills engagement.

Chief Commercial Officer at Unger Steel Fabrication

Unger Steel Fabrication serves the Gulf Coast liquefied natural gas (LNG) market through our partner Bechtel. This will continue with the LNG export terminal boom driven by US government support and approvals for its Department of Energy to issue LNG export licences. As a result, many projects have reached a final investment decision and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval.

We are pushing to expand our offering across our global business units. For example, we are visiting Australia to gain exposure to the metals, mining and infrastructure markets.

We are visiting Australia to gain exposure to the metals, mining and infrastructure markets

Our low-cost UAE centre helps us to seek out opportunities, with Dubai’s Jebel Ali port being a logistics hub. We are also leveraging Unger’s European business, with European projects including data centre and semiconductor plants. Using Austrian and German fabrication facilities, we can offer domestic production supplemented by competitive rates from our UAE business.

This approach makes us attractive to projects where quick lead-in items and changes can be accommodated, at competitive prices. The UAE business is accredited by the Canadian Welding Bureau; on the back of this, we will review mining and manufacturing opportunities. We see this diversification as key to our long-term success and expansion plans.

About Unger Steel Fabrication

Unger Steel Fabrication FZE is a joint venture between the Unger Group and the Bechtel Group. Located in the UAE, it specialises in pipe racks and plant structures across multiple sectors, exporting to US projects through engineering, procurement and construction contractors.