Unity Expands Its Board of Directors with Appointment of Upstream Energy Industry Expert

10 March 2025

Sandy Fettes, Non-Executive Director at Unity. (Image credit: Unity) Unity Picture by Michal Wachucik/Abermedia

Unity Well Integrity Limited has appointed Sandy Fettes to its board as a Non-Executive Director to support continued international growth across its range of well integrity and decommissioning solutions.

Mr. Fettes has around 30 years of experience in the international upstream energy industry and has delivered strategic business transformation, corporate HSEA improvements, and technical excellence programs in all operational disciplines across the well lifecycle.

With an early background in civil engineering, Mr. Fettes currently works as an energy industry leadership consultant. Prior to this, he served fourteen years in consecutive senior roles at Fairfield Energy and then EnQuest, where he latterly held the position of Global Wells Director. Here, he was responsible for overseeing all operations across EnQuest’s well construction, intervention, integrity, and decommissioning activities and implemented innovative technical and commercial models to deliver upper quartile performance and improve profitability. With an active interest in the mature wells sector, Mr. Fettes leads the Well Decommissioning Working Group for the trade association Decom Mission.

Gary Smart, CEO (L) and Sandy Fettes, Non-Executive Director (R) at Unity. (Image credit: Unity)

On joining the Unity board, he said: “I’m excited to be joining Unity’s dynamic, forward-thinking team. I’m strongly driven by using innovation for improvement, and this ethos is mirrored in Unity’s approach to client solutions. The company is ahead of the curve, with an impressive technology offering that improves asset performance throughout the well lifecycle. Positioned for global growth, with particular expertise in the mature well sector, its production restoration and decommissioning solutions provide industry leading value.”

Gary Smart, CEO at Unity, welcomed Mr. Fettes, saying: “We are delighted that Sandy will be joining our board. He possesses an invaluable, in-depth knowledge of current and future challenges facing the upstream industry in all technical, operational, and economic spheres. His expertise will undoubtedly support us in delivering further value to our clients’ operations and will help to accelerate our ambitious growth plans across our Wells, Innovation, and Decom business units.”

Sandy Fettes joins Gary Smart, Stuart Ferguson, Graeme Coutts, Neil McGuinness, Mark Illingworth, and Dillan Perras as the seventh member of Unity’s impressive board lineup.