W&O-Mobile: Sub for OPC work

W&O, a Tennessee-based supplier to the marine and upstream oil and gas markets for pipe, valves, and fittings, valve automation, and engineered solutions, announced that it had been awarded a subcontract from Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG) of Panama City, Fla., for the Coast Guard’s Offshore Patrol Cutters (OPC) Argus (WMSM-915), and long lead time materials for the cutter Chase (WMSM-916). W&O was selected as the major supplier of valves on board this new ship class. The CG’s current contract calls for ESG to build up to nine OPCs. This subcontract will be handled by W&O’s Mobile, Ala., branch that has a state-of-the-art valve automation facility and has successfully been delivering thousands of motor operated valves to the shipbuilding industry over the last decade, according to Debbie Garner, W&O’s Gulf Coast regional manager. The OPCs will be built at ESG. Construction began in 2018. (Source: Maritime Executive 04/08/19)