PLEXUS Holdings, the oil and gas engineering services firm, has won an order from Nexen Petroleum for the Glengorm exploration well in the North Sea.

Aberdeen-based Plexus, which supplies wellheads for jack-up exploration wells in the basin, said the deal comes as the “high calibre” Nexen “encouragingly continues to actively explore in the region”.

Chief executive Ben van Bilderbeek noted that conditions in oil and gas remain challenging but said the deal, alongside a recent follow-on order in Oman and other enquiries from operators, “provides us with some encouragement for the next financial year and beyond.”