Balmoral Comtec
Aberdeen manufacturer of subsea buoyancy, cable and riser protection and thermal insulation for offshore oil and gas and offshore wind, with an in-house subsea test centre.
Aberdeen, Scotland · Company
About
Balmoral Comtec was founded in 1980 by Sir Jim Milne in Aberdeen, growing out of the city's offshore sector. Early contracts from BP and Shell were for GRP spar buoys. Over the following decades the company supplied buoyancy, insulation and drill riser modules to deepwater projects worldwide, opened the Balmoral Subsea Test Centre in 2018 and launched HexDefence scour protection in 2023.
In May 2026 the business was acquired by the Freudenberg Flow Technologies Business Group and joined its Connectors and Sealing Solutions unit; at that time it employed 400 people at three UK locations. The company reports 23 patented solutions, six SPE Offshore Achievement Awards and three Queen's Awards for International Trade.
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- Cable buoyancy
- Umbilical, flexible and riser distributed buoyancy modules
- Drill riser buoyancy
- Mooring and installation buoyancy
- Anchor pendant buoys (APB)
- Bespoke buoyancy: midwater arches and riser tower buoyancy
- Balmoral T-CLAMP
- J-tube seals
- Bend restrictors, bend stiffeners and bend stiffener connector
- DURAGUARD impact and abrasion protection
- Balmoral HexDefence
- Balmoral COPPERCLAD
- GRP and composite subsea structures
- Balmoral ELASTOTHERM
- Balmoral Subsea Test Centre
- OCEANUS floats
- Cable protection system (CPS)
- DURAMAT
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