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Allspeeds supplies Webtool integrated hydraulic cutter for customer

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Craig Upton
Allspeeds supplies Webtool integrated hydraulic cutter for customer

As well as the portfolio of standard products manufactured by Allspeeds Limited, we also engineer solutions for customers’ specific requirements.


For one such project, Allspeeds has supplied an integrated guillotine hydraulic cutter to an offshore engineering services company, as part of a North Sea platform decommissioning project.


The application involved passing a hose though 2” pipework into a jacket leg that had previously been filled with a plugging material. This material is cleared using a corrosive gel breaker fluid and once completed, the end of the hose is cut-off, allowing the rest of the hose to be retrieved.


Constructed of multiple wire layers and an inner and outer plastic sheath, the customer required the unpressurised hose to be cut with a single stroke of the blade. The body of the cutter is designed as a pipework component with integral flanges either side of the cutter mouth, allowing it to be easily integrated inline in the pipework, mounted in a permanent installation. The custom design allows the full jetting nozzle assembly, hose swage and hose to pass through the guillotine cutter unimpeded.


The double-acting Webtool guillotine cutter is specially designed to resist the corrosive fluid within the hose; cutter body and pipework flanged connections are fully sealed to ensure containment of the fluid. The integrated cutter fully contains any spilt fluid and is capable of being left in a 25-year abandonment, without seeping any of the hazardous media.


For over 30 years Allspeeds has designed and manufactured the Webtool hydraulic cutter range. Our Webtool cutters include subsea cutting, umbilical gripping, emergency cutting & specialist subsea guillotine solutions. This line of precision subsea ROV tools are known throughout the offshore industry for their high quality and reliability.


Our range of Webtool cutters and subsea tools has become standard equipment in most ROV fleets around the world. The Webtool ROV tool range provides the subsea and offshore industries with equipment that meets their exacting specifications while surpassing their expectations.


Webtool ROV tools are able to operate under the toughest conditions and the most environmentally demanding circumstances, including extreme weather, such as tropical storms and hurricanes.


In addition, we create bespoke integrated designs for emergency disconnect or other applications. We supply a large range of tools for emergency and mission-critical situations including IWOCS emergency disconnection, cable and umbilical recovery and emergency deck cutter.


It should also be noted that Allspeeds Limited has also undertaken the design and manufacture of mechanical cutting tools for applications where no hydraulic power pack is available.

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