BESPOKE SUBSEA HOT TAPPING. Claxton’s subsea experience delivers bespoke hot tapping tool. THE PROBLEM In 2007, Claxton worked with a major operator in Norway to provide a custom, application-specific, subsea hot tapping machine. The operator needed to insert a hot tap tee to connect a new pipeline link, which was a critical-path operation. THE SOLUTION Claxton designed, built and tested a machine to work in 200m of water with a hot-tap diameter

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