MEASURE
,
mark and fit-up
Hugh Davies, Client
Solutions Director at
OMS Ltd., UK,
examines
how a new tool has been
vital to ensuring minimal
interruption on a number of
significant pipelay projects
over the past five years.
A
s pipes are put into ever increasing depths of
water, the challenge of laying offshore pipelines
intensifies. At every stage in the engineering
process, incremental improvements are
continuously being made in order to ensure that pipelines are
fit for purpose. Improvements are being made across areas
such as automatic ultrasonics technology (AUT), automatic
welding, material selection and coatings. However, this article
will focus on the dimensional aspects of pipes that are used
for fatigue-sensitive pipes, such as steel catenary risers (SCRs).
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