Glacier Energy Services has bought Professional Testing Services (PTS), the provider of non-destructive testing (NDT) and inspection services to the oil and gas and offshore renewable sectors.
Headquartered in Aberdeen, Glacier’s offshore division provides specialist technical services in support of inspection, repair and maintenance activities on existing assets, and in new-build capital projects in offshore exploration and production.
The offshore division already includes pipe-cutting equipment manufacturer Roberts Pipeline Machining, specialist onsite machining service provider Site Machining Services, and the recently acquired Ross Offshore, which provides heat exchanger repair and refurbishment.
Acquiring PTS adds further capability to the division and pushes the group's annual turnover to more than £25million, with an employee base approaching 200 at its sites across Aberdeen, Glasgow, Newcastle and Fife, as well as in Singapore and Benelux.
PTS, founded in 1981, provides ultrasonic, radiographic, magnetic particle, dye penetrant and visual inspection services, which are vital to ensuring the initial and ongoing integrity of offshore oil and gas and renewable assets, while minimising disruption to production activities.
It has experience in the asset construction marketplace, with long-standing framework agreements with Burntisland Fabrication (BiFab), SIF Group bv and Smulders Group. End users of assets PTS has worked on include Shell, Chevron, BP, Marathon Oil, Britannia, Seapower, Vattenfall and E.On.
PTS NDT services are predominantly used on new build fabrication and assembly projects for the oil and gas and renewable sectors and the techniques employed are equally important in in-service repair and maintenance situations.