Nautilus Contracts for Wet Testing of Seafloor Mining Units

摘要

Nautilus Minerals has signed agreements with United Engineering Services LLC to provide support services associated with wet testing the company's seafloor production equipment and storing the equipment as it is delivered from various suppliers prior to integration onto Nautilus' production support vessel (PSV). The first of the equipment to be tested will be the three types of Seafloor Production Tools (SPTs). The SPTs are due for delivery from the Soil Machine Dynamics facility in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, early in 2016. Each machine is undergoing commissioning and factory acceptance testing, which has been conducted in dry conditions on land. Once delivered, the SPTs will undergo extensive wet testing at Duqm Port in Oman, which is designed to provide a submerged demonstration of the fully assembled SPTs and will involve submerged testing of control systems operations and feedback; hydraulic functions; collection system functions; and survey and visualization systems.