Plexus Holdings PLC / Index: AIM / Epic: POS / Sector: Oil equipment & services
21 July 2014
Plexus Holdings PLC ('Plexus' or 'the Company')
Additional £0.6m Well Order Signed With Centrica Plc
Plexus Holdings PLC, the AIM quoted oil and gas engineering services business and owner of the proprietary POS-GRIP® friction-grip method of wellhead engineering is pleased to announce that it has received an additional purchase order ('PO') from Centrica Energy Exploration and Production ('Centrica') to supply surface wellhead and mudline equipment services for an exploration well in the Southern North Sea, Offshore UK. The value of the order is estimated at approximately £600,000 with revenues expected to commence shortly.
Under the terms of the contract, which is expected to have a duration of 60 days, Plexus will supply its 20" x 12-3/8" adjustable surface wellhead and mudline systems for use on the Grove Deep 49/10a-GD. Plexus has a long standing relationship with Centrica having provided the operator with equipment for use on a number of exploration and appraisal wells in the North Sea including the recent Grove Infill and Pegasus West wells.
Plexus CEO Ben Van Bilderbeek said, "It has always been our belief that once an operator places an initial order for our best in class wellhead equipment, the superior qualities of our POS-GRIP® technology in terms of performance, reliability and safety would lead to follow-up work, as today's contract with Centrica shows. Over the years we have now supplied Centrica with our wellhead equipment for a range of wells operating in conditions ranging from standard pressure to high pressure/ high temperature environments.
"At a time when operators are exploring for hydrocarbons in increasingly difficult conditions, while having to meet higher regulatory safety parameters on the one hand, and the need to control costs on the other, we strongly believe Plexus' equipment resonates with the times as we can deliver on both these objectives. We are therefore highly confident that the momentum behind our core wellhead rental business will be maintained, as more and more operators experience for themselves the unique operational and cost benefits Plexus' wellhead equipment offers."
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Plexus Holdings PLC |
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Plexus Holdings PLC |
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Notes to Editors:
Plexus Holdings PLC, which began trading on AIM in December 2005, is an oil and gas engineering and services business, which supplies wellhead and mudline suspension equipment for exploration and production applications. Based in Aberdeen, with offices in London, Cairo, Kuala Lumpur and a presence in Houston, Texas, it has developed and patented a friction-grip method of engineering for oil and gas field wellheads and connectors, POS-GRIP®, which involves deforming one tubular member against another to effect gripping and sealing.
The Company plans to accelerate the roll out of POS-GRIP wellhead equipment as a superior alternative to current technology and for it to become the future industry standard for wellhead design. In particular, the technology has advantages in High Pressure/High Temperature (HP/HT) and Extreme HP/HT (X-HP/HT) oil and gas environments, for which there is growing global demand and where Plexus is being increasingly recognised as the supplier of choice. Importantly, the Company is focussed on extending its proprietary technology into an increasing number of subsea applications. In line with this, in March 2011 the Company launched an initiative to develop a new subsea wellhead design, HGSS™, utilising its friction-grip technology in collaboration with key oil and gas operators and service companies. Royal Dutch Shell, Wintershall, Maersk, Tullow Oil, ENI, Oil States Industries Inc., TOTAL and the UK entity of the world's largest offshore drilling company have joined the initiative to date. The HGSS subsea wellhead design will include a combination of key features never before seen in a subsea wellhead which include being rated to 15,000 psi, 4,000,000 pounds of 'instant' casing lockdown capacity, annulus pressure monitoring and access for 'bleed off' capability to address sustained casing pressure ('SCP') issues which are recognised by the API as a serious industry problem, and rigid metal annular seal technology qualified to match the performance of premium casing. The design process has now been completed, and prototype testing is due for completion mid 2014.
To date, POS-GRIP wellhead systems have been used or selected to be used in over 300 oil and gas wells by international companies including AGR, Apache Energy Australia, BHP Billiton, BG International, Bowleven plc, BP, Brunei Shell Petroleum, Cairn Energy, Centrica, ConocoPhillips, Dana Petroleum, Dubai Petroleum, GDF SUEZ, Global Santa Fe, Maersk, Niko Resources, Petro-Canada Trinidad & Tobago, Red Sea Petroleum Operating Company, Repsol, RWE, Senergy Limited, Shell Egypt, StatoilHydro, Silverstone Energy, Talisman Energy, Tullow Oil, and Wintershall.
