Apr 24, 2025 | Abrasive waterjet cutting, Advanced Hydrodemolition for Offshore Decommissioning, High tech cutting technics, News, North Sea oil and gas rig decommissioning
We have been invited to demonstrate our cutting capabilities to lift eight piles from the seabed. The challenge is to cut 140mm diameter lifting holes through a sandwich structure consisting of a 60mm thick steel pipe wall, a 50mm thick water layer and a 70mm thick...
Feb 28, 2025 | Abrasive waterjet cutting, Advanced Hydrodemolition for Offshore Decommissioning, Dredging and Cleaning, High tech cutting technics, News, North Sea oil and gas rig decommissioning
Submar’s Powerful New 1,300 Bar Offshore Pump A few days ago, we proudly took delivery of our newest pump. 1,300 bar at 212 litres per minute, what a force, what a beast! And with seawater it quenches its thirst. To be fully in tune with offshore and decommissioning...
Feb 26, 2025 | Abrasive waterjet cutting, Advanced Hydrodemolition for Offshore Decommissioning, High tech cutting technics, News, North Sea oil and gas rig decommissioning
Safety is of the essence. If you succeed in improving a technique so that a task can be done in half the time, then the exposure time for all workers and the risk of an incident is also cut in half. During cutting tests, we are always amazed by the great cutting...
Feb 5, 2025 | Abrasive waterjet cutting, News, North Sea oil and gas rig decommissioning
When the designs were ready and all the parts were in production, Duncan approached us: ‘Where are you going to do the assembly of your wonderful machines?’ Usually, we assemble our machines in our workshop with our own people. That way, our cutting masters and...
Jan 5, 2025 | Abrasive waterjet cutting, Advanced Hydrodemolition for Offshore Decommissioning, High tech cutting technics, News, North Sea oil and gas rig decommissioning
At a depth of 40 metres, a series of platform piles stick out of the seafloor. SUBMAR was awarded the scope of removing these piles but there is a problem. The piles have been cut over a metre above the seafloor and are packed with bone-hard grout. Before we can cut...
Dec 20, 2024 | Abrasive waterjet cutting, High tech cutting technics, News
SUBMAR’s Innovative Approach to Overcoming Challenges in Cutting Complex Structures Abrasive waterjet cutting has great capabilities but also some serious challenges. Cutting a sandwich structure with water layers between the steel layers is such one. At SUBMAR,...
