.jpg?width=300&height=38&name=Monadelphous%20Logo%20Horizontal%20Red%20and%20Black%20(CMYK).jpg "Monadelphous"){kind=small}
Monadelphous’ Industrial Services team has continued to support our operational teams with recent investments in the latest equipment and technologies.
In the last three months, in excess of $1.2 million has been invested to deliver our seventh Ultra High Pressure (UHP) offshore zone rates pump, and also the second high volume vacuum unit, with deck mower to support the Fabric Maintenance team based at INPEX.
Monadelphous Project Director Peter Davis said Monadelphous now has an army of fabric maintenance technicians across all our clients’ facilities.
“Equipment reliability has a direct impact on productivity and continuity of work for our teams, and we are proud that we can support them with the latest, safest and brand-new equipment. This brings our total investment in fabric maintenance equipment to over $6 million in the last three years,” he said.
Another interesting project the Industrial Services Team has been involved in recently is the research and development of a hydraulic caisson cleaning tool.
The tool, used in conjunction with a high-pressure pump removes marine growth whilst preserving the existing coating from the internal surface of a 1200mm diameter seawater lift caisson for NDT inspection. The original tooling was not fit for purpose and Monadelphous was subsequently engaged to resolve its functionality before sending the equipment offshore.
Fabric Maintenance SME Chris Heron has spent many a long hot day at WOMA’s yard (our UHP manufacturer), refining the tool in a mock-up caisson section and said it was both interesting and challenging to come up with solutions for non-routine tasks.
The equipment has been deployed to the GWA facility and under Chris’s supervision was lowered approximately 56 metres below water level as a trial run. After overcoming a number of technical challenges, it successfully cleaned the 80 metres length of the caisson however further modifications to the tooling and equipment should result in improved results for subsequent caisson scopes.
Leave a comment