TUV SUD launches world-leading multiphase flow test facility in Scotland

The company has committed more than £11 million to the project based at its NEL site on East Kilbride’s Scottish Enterprise Technology Park, with the remaining £4.9 million coming from Scottish Enterprise.

The company says the new facility will provide a high pressure multiphase flow test facility, with a test range exceeding “anything currently available anywhere else in the world”.

This could have wide-ranging benefits for the food and drink, renewable and aerospace industries

Keith Brown, economy secretary, Scottish Executive

It will enable NEL to provide world-leading fluid flow technical services to the global oil and gas production market over the next quarter century. There are around 370 subsea companies already based in Scotland, with subsea valued at £50 billion per annum worldwide.

Michael Valente, CEO of TUV SUD UK, said: “This new technology centre will help NEL foster its worldwide reputation as leader in multiphase and wet gas flow measurement testing, operating the only global facility offering full range of flow rates and high pressure capabilities.”

Scotland’s economy secretary Keith Brown, visiting the site, remarked that the implications would be felt in the wider Scottish economy and beyond the oil and gas sector.

"When complete, the centre will place Scotland as a world leader in this exciting field. This will not only help the oil and gas sector to maximise economic recovery, but could have wide-ranging benefits for the food and drink, renewable and aerospace industries, supporting sustainable growth across the Scottish economy.”