High-technology offshore wind companies, Rovco and Vaarst, have today announced their merger under a new brand: Beam.global. In uniting their industry leading capabilities across research, development, and deployment, Beam provides an unrivalled offering in cutting-edge automation technologies. Through its mission to automate offshore wind, these innovations deliver efficiencies and reduced costs for survey and subsea work across all lifecycle stages.

Rovco, a leader in tech-driven offshore wind solutions, was chosen by Iberdrola to clear unexploded ordnance (UXO) at its Baltic Sea site. This marked Rovco’s first UXO project in Germany. Rovco commenced identification and removal in Q2 2024, paving the way for the construction of Iberdrola’s Windanker offshore wind farm near Rügen Island in the German EEZ.

Rovco has been awarded the site characterisation operations for Green Volt floating offshore wind farm, located 80 km east of Peterhead in Scotland. Scheduled to be fully operational in 2029, Green Volt will become one of the world’s largest offshore floating windfarms. It will consist of up to 35 floating turbines and is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by 1 million tons per year, contributing up to 1.5 TWh of clean energy to the UK annually.

Rovco, a leading UK-based provider of tech-powered offshore wind solutions, has been selected for site characterisation work on the Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind project in the southern North Sea. The project is a joint venture between TotalEnergies, Corio Generation (a portfolio company of Macquarie Asset Management operating on a standalone basis), and Gulf Energy Development. With a planned installed capacity of 1.5GW, it will be one of the UK’s largest offshore wind farms upon completion.

Rovco & Vaarst, leading providers of tech-powered offshore wind solutions, will recruit over 150 specialist roles across Bristol, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh offices in the UK by the end of 2025. The influx of talent will support Rovco & Vaarst’s explosive growth and development of high-tech solutions using AI, automation, and machine learning to help speed the energy transition and keep offshore wind competitive.

Rovco, a leading provider of tech-powered offshore wind solutions, has signed a framework agreement with Ørsted to provide O&M (Operations and Maintenance) work on two of the developer’s US sites, Block Island Wind Farm and South Fork Wind Farm.

Rovco, the leading provider of high-technology offshore wind solutions is now adding a second hull mounted survey vessel to their fleet with the long-term charter of the DP2 vessel Glomar Worker.

Rovco, a global provider of technology-enabled project solutions to the offshore renewable energy sector, have been contracted by Flotation Energy to carry out a geo-environmental survey at its planned Cenos floating offshore windfarm, 200 kilometres off the north-east coast of Scotland.

Rovco, a global provider of technology-enabled project solutions to the offshore renewable energy sector, has launched a new, dedicated marine site characterisation business line, to help address a crucial industry shortfall of companies with the all-round skills and expertise to carry out site consenting surveys prior to the construction of new offshore installations.

Rovco has successfully completed a contract awarded by Well-Safe Solutions to support its well plug and abandonment decommissioning operations in the Southern North Sea. This is the second contract that the leading provider of subsea and hydrographic survey projects has secured with Well-Safe Solutions, having previously performed survey work on an abandoned subsea wellhead in UK waters in 2021.

Rovco has penned an initial three-year charter of the multipurpose support vessel, Glomar Supporter as part of its growth strategy within its site characterisation business unit.

Horizon Ocean Management (HOM) – a subsidiary joint venture between Mitsui and Hokutaku (the leading turbine maintenance company in Japan) – and Rovco, a global provider of subsea robotic and hydrographic survey solutions to the offshore wind industry, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for through-life subsea asset integrity and balance of plant survey solutions for the Japanese offshore wind market.

Rovco, a leading global provider of subsea robotic and hydrographic survey solutions, has been awarded a contract for the provision of offshore rock bag deployment and installation at the Galloper Offshore Wind Farm in the Outer Thames Estuary. The project scope covers the application of an operator engineered solution for the installation of rock bags, which need to be placed at precise locations on and around the Cable Protection Systems (CPS) on the wind farm, located 27km off the Suffolk coast.

Rovco has signed an agreement for the charter of the VOS Star from owners Vroon to support delivery of its offshore wind farm projects. The charter signals a new working relationship between the leading provider of offshore subsea and hydrographic survey projects and the international shipping company.

Rovco, a leading provider of offshore subsea and hydrographic survey projects, has signed a contract with Van Oord to perform subsea investigation works on Dutch offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust Noord.

For the third year running, Rovco, a leading provider of offshore subsea and survey solutions, has been awarded a contract to carry out work on the Beatrice offshore wind farm. Located in the Outer Moray Firth, Beatrice is Scotland’s second largest operational offshore wind farm.

Rovco has further bolstered its fleet to support its growth in offshore wind. The leading provider of offshore subsea and survey solutions has signed a charter party agreement with Glomar Offshore for the Glomar Worker dynamic positioning (DP) vessel.

Rovco has appointed Craig Davis to the new key role of Global Account Director – Survey, as it moves to further accelerate the growth of its core capabilities and portfolio of offshore survey solutions. The leading provider of offshore subsea and survey projects is making a significant investment into its offering across the sector. Alongside ROV/AUV large scale project delivery, Rovco also delivers hydrographic, geophysical, and shallow geotechnical survey services, ranging from site characterisation and cable route surveys to UXO identification and disposal, marine habitat assessment surveys and archaeological investigations.