Stuart Ferguson appointed to board of directors

isol8 is thrilled to announce the appointment of Stuart Ferguson as an independent non-executive director, effective from 6th March 2023.

Stuart is currently the chief executive of FrontRow Energy Technology Group, with more than 35 years of experience, ranging from start-ups to large publicly traded companies, including operators and energy services firms, in executive and non-executive roles.

His oil and gas career started at BP, where he spent nearly six years as a petroleum engineer in the UK and Netherlands. He also worked for Expro in Aberdeen before joining the senior management team as director at Petroline Wellsystems. He then spent another year at Expro, as marketing director, before a string of senior roles at Weatherford. From April 2010 to March 2016 he was managing director at Flux Oilfield Technology.

A raft of non-executive roles followed, before he joined Aberdeen-based FrontRow as CEO on its formation in early 2017. FrontRow is a technology- focused oil and gas services group with investments in firms including Well-Sense, Downhole Tools International, Unity and ClearWELL Oilfield Solutions.

Stuart said: “The use of alloys downhole is on a rapid growth trajectory. “Isol8 has laid a competent foundation to quickly scale the business to satisfy customer demand, and we are working on several exciting technology developments which have application across the entire well life cycle. The potential for alloy isolation products to significantly reduce well construction and well abandonment emissions is also noteworthy.”

Our CEO Andrew Louden added: "Stuart is an accomplished and transformative executive, who brings a wealth of oilfield technology commercialisation experience. His insights will strengthen our business as we scale up to address the global customer demand for our alloy barrier products."