Case Study
Aquablast Completes North Sea Gas Platform Project with Jet Edge Waterjets
Aquablast Completes North Sea Gas Platform Project with Jet Edge Waterjets Natural gas production in older United Kingdom North Sea gasfields is tailing off and energy companies are now having to finance major decommissioning works. Platforms and all their gas processing equipment are required by British and Norwegian law to be entirely removed after shutdown right down to the seabed. Jet Edge abrasive waterjets are perfectly suited to steel cutting in volatile gas-laden atmospheres and an increasing number of offshore operators are turning to spark-free “cold cutting” to safely carry out the removal of redundant oil and gas production hardware. Recently, Jet Edge’s UK distributor Aquablast safely cut up obsolete contactor towers on a live gas platform operated by the French oil company P