UTEC Strengthens Survey Services With Saudi-Owned Front End Strategic Partnership

UTEC Survey Asia Pte Ltd., a Geo-services brand in Acteon’s Data and Robotics division, has entered a strategic agency agreement with Front End Ltd., a 100% Saudi-owned company providing advanced products and solutions to the offshore energy industry. This partnership strengthens UTEC’s presence in the Saudi Arabian energy and geoscience subsea survey market, with Front End as its trusted partner.

Front End’s companies specialise in renewable energy, oil field services, information and communication technology, building materials, infrastructure, industrial, maritime services and manpower supply for diverse economic sectors in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and neighbouring countries.

Front End will play a pivotal role in UTEC’s growing presence in Saudi Arabia, by promoting survey services across new developments in the Red Sea, helping with logistics and obtaining licences and permits.

“Today marks a significant milestone as we proudly announce the strategic partnership between UTEC and Front End, a distinguished energy addition organisation based in Saudi Arabia,” says Sudhir Pai, Executive Vice President, Data and Robotics Division, Acteon. “The collaboration strategically combines our strengths but also reaffirms UTEC’s cutting-edge advancements in geoscience technology and development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”

As UTEC and Front End join forces, they anticipate numerous opportunities, with plans to welcome technologies and services to the partnership from other Acteon companies. This forward-looking strategy aims to expand both parties’ influence, creating a resilient ecosystem for sustained growth in the energy addition sector.

“Front End has differentiated itself as the most reliable and innovative total solution provider in the main energy hub of the world,” says Majid Alghaslan, Chairman and CEO – Front End. “We are excited about this strategic partnership with UTEC and Acteon as we extend our portfolio as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia embarks on an ambitious economic diversification plan as part of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030.”

About Acteon
Acteon provides specialist engineering, services and technology to companies who develop and own marine infrastructure across the life of their assets. We enable our customers to achieve their operational goals with a more efficient integrated solution: reducing the cost and carbon footprint through value engineering without compromising the quality of delivery.

This is achieved by applying our domain expertise to increase efficiencies and enhance commercial and environmental value for our customers across the renewable, nearshore construction and oil and gas industries.

We specialise in data collection and survey techniques ahead of construction, the installation of key foundation and anchoring technologies, the monitoring and management of assets and the decommissioning of assets. For more information, visit www.acteon.com.

About UTEC
UTEC provides a wide range of global survey, positioning and data management services using the most advanced equipment and techniques on the market. The data generated provides customers with the information they need to make critical, well informed, business decisions, supporting all phases of construction.

Surveys performed by UTEC are designed and deployed to use less equipment and optimise vessel usage to reduce the length and cost per survey, and dedicated teams remain on a project from start to finish to ensure that knowledge is retained through the cycle.

UTEC also specialises in 3D asset management software solutions, land surveying, laser scanning, photogrammetry and telecoms services. Through a turnkey model for telecommunication and broadcast infrastructure site development, maintenance and upgrade UTEC is a pioneer in its approach to the display of laser scanning data via its proprietary, 3D virtual asset management solution iSite. For more inforamtion, visit www.acteon.com/geo-services/utec/.

About Front End
FRONT END, a 100% Saudi-owned company, is a leading service provider of advanced products and solutions. Its divisions, subsidiaries and joint venture companies are focused on oil field services and renewable energy, information and communication technology services, building materials, infrastructure, industrial, maritime services, and manpower supply for the various economic sectors in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and neighboring countries. For more information, visit www.frontend.sa/.