Expro Launches Solus™ – The Single Valve Solution for Subsea Well Access

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 4, 2026--

Energy services provider Expro (NYSE: XPRO) today unveils Solus™ – the unique high-debris single shear and seal ball valve system offering additional flexibility, functionality, and safety to subsea well access solutions for the international oil and gas industry.

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Replacing the conventional requirement for two valves with just one, Solus™ revolutionizes the industry’s approach to subsea well access, reducing operational risk and complexity while accelerating the drive toward more cost-efficient subsea intervention technologies.

Tested and validated in accordance with API Std 17G, Solus™ is the first fully NACE MR0175 compliant fail-close bi-directional high-debris ball valve system that can shear and seal on wire and coiled tubing.

Expro’s Solus™ advanced equipment technology can be used in both in riser and open water applications across the entire well lifecycle - from exploration and appraisal and completion intervention to plug and abandonment (P&A) and decommissioning.

Solus™ has already been deployed for a new in-riser completions development in the Gulf of America and installed in an open water system for a North Sea P&A campaign. The system provides shear and post-shear seal for gas and liquids on slick line, braided electrical cable, and coiled tubing. It delivers bi-directional sealing for liquids and gas, even after a pump-through.

Solus™ has also been included in the Expro lightweight P&A Open Water Intervention Riser System (OWIRS). By achieving a Shear and Seal in a single valve, this technology allows Expro to introduce Solus into the open water application.

Solus™’ modular design allows isolation and disconnection from the well. Its compact design and increased flexibility match the industry’s advance in next generation smaller-sized BOP (blowout preventer) stacks and enables more efficient supply chain management.

The system’s fail-close design reduces risk of emissions and provides a unique well safety barrier. Expro’s world-class integration or ‘whole system’ experience provides user surety and confidence. Replacing a two-valve system with just one valve simplifies operations management.

Solus™ offers superior high debris (HD) flexibility for a wider range of complete well lifecycle challenges, with 15% solids ingress qualification size.

Solus™ is the latest technology from Expro that demonstrates the company’s innovation and expertise in systems integration, engineering excellence, and deep understanding of the industry’s needs. The system advances Expro’s 40-year legacy of leadership in the global subsea sector.

Daniel More, Vice President Subsea Well Access, said:

“In introducing Solus™, Expro now offers the subsea engineering market a distinctive new system that provides the ultimate integrated shear and seal on coiled tubing and wire using just a single valve. Solus™ cuts through operational complexity. Simple to use, flexible, with a compact design for smaller BOP stack sizes, this is the latest in fail-safe technology developed by the experts of valve technology and systems integration.

“When there’s no room for error, Solus™ is designed to provide the assurance of an independent well safety barrier, combined with the surety and confidence that comes from Expro’s integration experience and expertise at the ‘whole system’ level. It’s the latest example of Expro’s engineering excellence and deep understanding of customer needs to move our industry forward.”

Solus™ is available in Expro’s ELSA landing string assemblies equipment offering. It is available in-riser as a single valve, a single valve with a latch mechanism, or within a subsea test tree, and within an OWIRS.

For more information on the Solus™ technology, Expro will be hosting a live webinar on March 4 th 2026. Details can be found here: Expro’s Solus™ Webinar

Notes to Editors

Working for clients across the well life cycle, Expro is a leading provider of energy services, offering cost-effective, innovative solutions and what Expro considers to be best-in-class safety and service quality. Expro’s extensive portfolio of capabilities spans well construction, well flow management, subsea well access, and well intervention and integrity solutions.

With roots dating to 1938, Expro has approximately 8,500 employees and provides services and solutions to leading exploration and production companies in both onshore and offshore environments in more than 50 countries.

For more information, please visit and connect with Expro on Twitter @ExproGroup and LinkedIn @Expro.

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Expro's Solus™ Technology

TOKYO (AP) — Heavy snow piling up in northern Japan in the last two weeks has blocked roads and is being blamed for dozens of deaths nationwide, government officials said Wednesday.

As of Wednesday, 15 prefectures have been affected, with the amount of snow piled up in the worst hit areas estimated to have reached 2 meters (6.5 feet).

Unusually heavy snow has fallen in parts of Japan in recent days, largely due to a cold air mass from the Arctic that has lingered over the Japanese archipelago.

More than 1,700 homes remained without electricity, and most train lines weren’t running, including the bullet trains, because snow had covered the tracks, according to Aomori prefecture.

The prefecture was providing trucks, including snow plows, to localities needing help.

“We anticipate some roads might get blocked off, and so we are consulting with services that can help with ambulances and fire trucks to get through to their destinations,” Aomori Gov. Soichiro Miyashita told reporters Wednesday.

Emergency vehicles that weren’t able to get to their destinations have so far parked nearby, and medical staff have gone on foot with stretchers to rescue people in need, he said.

Miyashita said he was asking the city of Aomori to try to clear the main roads of snow, implying that the city is falling behind other cities and needs to do more.

Most of the 35 deaths and hundreds of injuries reported across Japan were caused by falls among people trying to clear their homes of snow.

The biggest number of snow-related fatalities, at 12 people, was reported in Niigata prefecture, a rice-growing region in northern Japan, including a man in his 50s who was found collapsed on the roof of his home in Uonuma city on Jan. 21.

In Nagaoka city, a 70-year-old is believed to have died after falling from his roof, according to the Niigata government.

Japan’s chief government spokesperson warned that, although the weather was getting warmer, more danger could lie ahead because snow would start melting, resulting in landslides and slippery surfaces.

“Please do pay close attention to your safety, wearing a helmet or using a lifeline rope, especially when working on clearing snow,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara told reporters.

Injuries nationwide numbered 393, including 126 serious injuries, 42 of them in Niigata. Fourteen homes were damaged, three in Niigata and eight in Aomori prefecture.

Deaths and accidents related to heavy snow are not uncommon in Japan, with 68 deaths reported over the six winter months the previous year, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency.

More heavy snow is forecast for the coming weekend in northern Japan.

Yuri Kageyama contributed to this report. She is on Threads: https://www.threads.com/@yurikageyama

People walk in a snow in Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, on Jan. 23, 2026. (Kazushi Kurihara/Kyodo News via AP)

A person walks in a snow in Nagaoka, Niigata prefecture, Japan, on Jan. 22, 2026. (Chiaki Ueda/Kyodo News via AP)

People clear snow near houses in Aomori, northern Japan, Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. (Kyodo News via AP)

People clear snow near a building in Aomori, northern Japan, Monday, Feb. 2, 2026. (Kyodo News via AP)