Where the world’s energy industry exhibits.
Custom exhibition stands for OTC and every Houston show — fabricated in the US and delivered on one fixed USD price signed before work starts. Your subsea hardware may have to cross the ocean. Your stand doesn’t — and neither does a single customs form for it. No US entity required.
Filters the stands below — each shows its Houston price.
Houston’s marquee floors put exhibition stands beside real equipment — valves, trees, drilling hardware — in front of engineers who’ve worked offshore and read build quality reflexively. Everything below came out of our own shop: designed, fabricated, printed and wired by one team, then stood up complete and photographed before shipping. What you approve from abroad is what lands on the floor.
Teramind
1,800 sq ft island with interactive demo zones.
Radware
Hands-on learning stations inside a four-sided island.
Appdome
Security demo theatre built for high-volume technical traffic.
SpyCloud
Interactive stations arranged for one-to-one conversation.
Fulcrum GT
Full-height LED as the structure, not an add-on to it.
WillowTree
Meeting-led layout with enclosed rooms off an open front.
IMAX
Large-format island built around a screening experience.
Microsoft
Modular island scaled across a multi-show programme.
Also built for Genea, Dunnhumby, Chili Piper, LHH, Calm and Spekit.
An international energy exhibitor at OTC often has genuinely unavoidable freight — demonstration hardware that is the point of the appearance. That shipment is priced, insured and specialist-handled. The stand around it is the optional cargo: structure that doubles the crate count, the carnet schedule and the weight the material handlers bill on.
Split the freight. The hardware travels on its own paperwork; the environment gets built on this side — engineered around its footprint, floor loading and rigging path from the first render, in US materials and US electrical code, on one fixed USD number.
No carnets, no brokerage, no duty questions, no crate in clearance while your show opens. Fabricated, trucked and installed inside one country, on one fixed number.
Overseas components routinely fail US floor inspection — voltage, plugs, certification marks. Everything we wire is US code from the first cable.
Existing stand drawings become a Houston build: imperial dimensions, your show’s height and rigging rules, forced changes flagged at render stage.
The hardware clears on its own paperwork, sized to what genuinely must cross. The stand never appears on a carnet schedule, a duty calculation or a broker’s invoice.
Energy exhibitors arriving from Norway, the UK, the Gulf, Brazil or Asia meet a show-floor system here that has no equivalent at home. The full six-term glossary lives on our Las Vegas exhibition stand page; these are the three that bite hardest here.
The venue’s fee for moving freight from dock to stand space, billed by weight. Unavoidable for everyone, forecastable for anyone honest — we price the line against your actual stand before you commit and file at advance rates.
What exhibitors may build themselves on a Texas floor is set by each show’s regulations, and a custom island is crew-built work under any of them. Our fixed price carries the crews and supervision, so there’s nothing for you to source.
US floor plans sell in feet, and space contracts follow. The pricing table below carries both units — quote your space in whichever your contract uses.
Fixed and all-inclusive for custom exhibition stands in Houston, invoiced in USD to your home-country entity — international wire or card, no US bank account or address required. Print these, convert them at today’s rate, and take them into your budget meeting.
| Footprint | Metric | Fixed price (USD) | Typical use |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10×10 | ≈ 3×3 m · 9 m² | $13,000 – $15,500 | Inline. First US market entry, lead capture. |
| 10×20 | ≈ 3×6 m · 18 m² | $20,000 – $24,000 | Inline. Demo plus seated conversation. |
| 20×20 | ≈ 6×6 m · 37 m² | $31,000 – $35,000 | Island. Two or three zones, four-sided. |
| 20×30 | ≈ 6×9 m · 56 m² | $33,000 – $38,500 | Island. Adds a semi-private meeting space. |
| 20×40 | ≈ 6×12 m · 74 m² | $38,500 – $49,500 | Island. Multiple engagement zones. |
| 20×50 | ≈ 6×15 m · 93 m² | $44,000 – $55,000 | Island. Long-run product wall. |
| 30×30 | ≈ 9×9 m · 84 m² | $44,000 – $55,000 | Island. Enclosed meeting room, theatre seating. |
| 30×40 | ≈ 9×12 m · 111 m² | $60,500 – $71,500 | Island. Flagship, double-deck capable. |
The venue invoices these directly to every exhibitor, whichever exhibit company builds the stand — no vendor anywhere can legitimately “include” them. We estimate each line against your actual stand before you commit, then file the orders inside the advance-rate window.
An OTC exhibitor shipping hardware from Stavanger or Aberdeen pays that freight either way — it’s the cost of showing the product. The question is everything packed around it. A 6×9 m stand sent along for the ride adds its own crates, carnet lines, dock weight and risk:
On the venue’s invoice in both scenarios: the hardware’s freight, its customs entry, its drayage and its rigging into position — the unavoidable cost of exhibiting the product, and we coordinate its arrival alongside the stand build either way. The difference is whether the stand added a second set of every one of those lines.
The stand’s crossing costs almost a stand. Build here, and every logistics dollar you don’t spend on walls becomes the environment your hardware deserves to be evaluated in.
Live inventory below, each card carrying its Houston price. Choose a footprint or budget in the finder above and the selection re-sorts right here — every structure finishable as a fully custom exhibition stand.
12 booths · Houston, Texas pricing
Houston’s show calendar splits between NRG Park’s big industrial weeks and the George R. Brown Convention Center’s downtown rotation, with a corporate energy calendar running through hotel and campus venues around both. The venue on your contract sets the plan — docks, rigging, marshalling — so it’s the first thing we read.
The sprawling south-side campus where the energy giants run — outdoor exhibit acreage, heavy-rigging traditions and marshalling logistics all its own. Equipment exhibitors live or die on the freight plan here.
The downtown hall carries rotating trade shows and association congresses with a conventional dock rhythm — a different rulebook from NRG, read fresh per show.
Supplier marketing here extends into hotel and campus events across the corridor — ballroom logistics on the same fixed model.
Houston’s summer heat and autumn storm season are freight-planning facts: temperature-sensitive loads schedule around heat windows, and hurricane-season dates carry weather margin with the pre-build photo gate held earlier — a storm should cost the plan a buffer, never the stand.
OTC floors are unlike anywhere else in the series: your stand may share a footprint with hardware measured in tonnes, in front of an audience of offshore engineers, project directors and national oil company delegations who evaluate suppliers for decade-length programmes.
The brief: structure engineered around the hardware — floor loading, rigging paths, safety clearances filed with the venue — presentation that gives the equipment the museum treatment, and delegation-grade meeting space, because the conversations here involve ministries as often as procurement teams.
Floor loading, rigging paths and clearances resolved at render stage and filed with the venue — the hardware lands once, correctly.
Plinths, lighting and sight lines that present hardware the way its engineering deserves — to the audience that reads it.
Hosting and privacy for conversations that range from technical qualification to national-programme terms.
Your US calendar runs past Houston? Dallas, New Orleans, Denver and fifty more cities run on the same published fixed model — one stand design, one project manager, every city’s price known before your show year starts.
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“Their team is incredibly flexible throughout the design process and truly collaborative in bringing ideas to life. I highly recommend Pure Exhibits to anyone looking for a reliable, thoughtful, and experienced exhibit partner.”
Houston’s fixed point plus its rotation — name your show and we’ll confirm venue and dates before we quote.
| Show | Typical month | Venue | Start planning |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTC — Offshore Technology Conference | May | NRG Park | 6 months |
| Rotating trade shows & congresses | Varies by year | George R. Brown CC | 5 months |
| Corporate energy events | Year-round | Corridor venues | 4 months |
OTC gets six months — hardware stands carry engineering, floor-loading and rigging coordination on top of normal approvals, and the same window covers your hardware’s own sailing schedule.
Show dates don’t create cost pressure — order deadlines do, and the decisive one closes roughly eight weeks out, when advance rates on electrical, rigging and drayage expire. For a team planning across an ocean, the whole project exists to arrive at that gate comfortably, with your only travel being the flight to the show itself.
A stand contractor who collapsed mid-project, a space upgrade approved late, a crate held at a foreign port while the hardware sailed on — energy calendars don’t flex, so the stand has to. With design, fabrication and print in one building, approval-to-floor runs about four weeks. Same quality gate — built and photographed before shipping — same published price.
Tell us the show and your space size — metres or feet. Within 24 hours: design concepts, one fixed USD figure, and the venue’s own charges forecast beside it. Approve everything from your desk; the hardware crosses; everything else gets built here.
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