Our Southern UK (SUK) operations are headquartered in Great Yarmouth, supporting clients in various business sectors across England by providing safe, efficient and sustainable services. We employ over 100 skilled professionals within our operational bases in Great Yarmouth and strategically placed facilities, supporting our clients across the UK.
With over 50 years' experience in East Anglia, we are a well-known, community-focused company, providing delivery of safe, efficient, and exceptional service for major clients, primarily within the UK's energy sector.
We deliver fully integrated logistics, materials management, environmental and decommissioning services to support specialist sectors, including UK Energy, Onshore industry, Oil & Gas and Decommissioning.
We support our clients with strategically located infrastructure and highly competent specialist personnel, provided by both ASCO and our selected key partners, ensuring adequate resources are available to meet the changing demands of our clients. These resources include berths across local ports, internal/external storage facilities & materials management, the supply of specialist fuels such as marine gas oil (by road and direct to vessel), access to an extensive network of waste resource management facilities (with a zero waste to landfill policy) and specialist industrial cleaning services (including domestic collections of septic tank emptying).
Our dedicated heavy lift pad, located on a separate berth in Great Yarmouth, can accommodate up to a 500t crane. The crane is utilised to support piece small/piece medium decommissioning activities, offering the operator added value by sharing vessel deck space and other onshore infrastructure to help drive down costs, especially in the Decommissioning sector.
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Logistics | Materials | Bulk Liquids | Marine | Environmental Services | Lifting & Training
We have an unrivalled network of strategically located facilities offering a fully integrated range of services carried out with safety, efficiency, reliability and transparency as our guiding principles. We have utilised our expertise in using data and technology to drive efficiency as we work to deliver the most efficiency supply bases in the industry.
We are continually investing in improving the efficiency of our supply bases, leveraging new best practice, Lean6Sigma process improvement tools and implementing new technology. These improvements will see us stay at the leading edge of supply base operations.
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We have eight fuelling points on four operating berths throughout Great Yarmouth, with our bunkering activity operating 24/7, 365 days per year. We also offer 6300 tonnes of storage capacity across multiple tanks.
As well as storing and marketing Marine Gas Oil (MGO), we offer storage and throughput solutions for a number of blue-chip clients. We offer short and long-term contract options to clients at our CoMAH regulated sites and can provide individual tank solutions with capacities ranging from 160 to 1800 metric tonnes.
Client activity currently encompasses Diesel, 10ppm Gas Oil, Kerosene and MEG, while our truck fleet delivers MGO to various locations on the east and south coast of England, including Lowestoft, Ramsgate, Felixstowe and the Thames.
In 2022, we switched our heavy goods vehicle (HGV) fleet from diesel fossil fuel to Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) renewable fuel as part of our drive to decarbonise our operations and be net zero by 2040. This change has positively impacted our operations with a reduction in CO2 emissions by over 90%, this is one of many measures ASCO are working on to minimise our environmental impact. Our clients can also benefit from these initiatives when reporting their own impact assessments.
Our in-house waste management and specialist industrial cleaning services are delivered from our bespoke facilities, strategically located to enable the most efficient delivery of services in the offshore sector.
ASCO resources are also applied to onshore sectors with services supplied to:
Our team has been providing environmental services within the local Great Yarmouth area for over 10 years, offering emptying of septic tanks, cesspool's, klargester and blocked drains.
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Our state-of-the-art Waste Transfer and Treatment centre in Great Yarmouth plays an important role in our waste management provision, handling large volumes of waste from multiple clients across various sectors. We are proud to deliver the most sustainable solutions available to our clients with a 'zero waste to landfill' policy for non-hazardous general wastes.
The site handles over 200 tonnes of hazardous waste (oils, chemicals, paints, greases) each week and can process over 200 different waste types from hazardous and non-hazardous waste and oil-based mud slops to general waste. The waste is either treated onsite or packed into bulk and transferred to one of our 200+ approved partners for onward disposal or recycling or reuse.
The site features multiple bulk storage tanks where we can store oil, diesel, and dirty waters. We are also in the process of installing ship to shore facilities for handling offshore waste directly at the quayside, which will increase efficiency and reduce vessel turnaround times.
Due to the processing capability, the site has the ideal layout for sorting and recycling waste materials to achieve a greater recycling efficiency and has been rated as 'Excellent' by regulatory authorities. Our dedicated technical support team of waste management professionals is available to handle all waste queries.
Our digitalised processing system presents waste management data in a format recognised by regulatory bodies while assisting our clients in understanding the waste production process. By providing reliable information, we help our customers fully utilise the waste hierarchy.
