Wet Underwater Welding: The Alternatives
If you need to make permanent repairs underwater in any industry, underwater welding is probably a concern. It doesn’t matter whether you’re in oil and gas, shipping, defense, or marine infrastructure. You need to make sure all your underwater components are stable and functional.
Underwater welding is an important part of maintaining any metal structure existing in full or in part below the water. However, most conventional underwater welding systems have a number of problems. They’re expensive, can provide only temporary repairs, dangerous, and/or hard to move around.
Some dry underwater welding systems, like the Neptune System, have a number of advantages over wet welding methods. They allow the creation of high quality dry welds without the use of time consuming, costly hyperbaric chambers.
Oil and gas operators will be particularly pleased by the time and cost savings that this sort of underwater welding offers. As platforms and infrastructure age, the demand for appropriate inspection, repair, and maintenance services will increase. That means that an easy, fast, comparatively inexpensive underwater welding solution is important.
Oil rigs, subsea pipelines, platforms, and just about any other underwater structure with metal construction will benefit from high quality underwater welding options. You can create a customized habitat and configure it to work in almost any situation where underwater welds might be required.
