(WO) — Decom Engineering has secured 9 mooring chain reducing tasks to date in 2026, with two-thirds supporting offshore set up campaigns as the corporate expands its know-how past conventional decommissioning work.
The tasks use Decom’s C1-16UL and C1-10 cold-cutting Chopsaws to take away extra mooring chain throughout set up and commissioning. After mooring traces are laid and tensioned to place a floating asset, extra chain should be eliminated, requiring managed reducing close to new or working infrastructure.
In a latest marketing campaign offshore West Africa, Decom used its C1-16UL and heavy-duty C1-16HD Chopsaws to finish 4 mooring chain cuts. Main mooring traces beneath roughly 400 tonnes of stress have been severed concurrently, with particular person cuts accomplished in about 11 minutes.
The bigger C1-16UL targets mooring chains from roughly 120 mm in diameter and above. The system was first trialed throughout a Brazilian marketing campaign in 2025, the place cuts have been accomplished in lower than quarter-hour.
Decom’s smaller C1-10, launched earlier this 12 months, is designed for chains beneath 120 mm and will be deployed and positioned utilizing an ROV manipulator arm with out a typical skid body, permitting operations at larger water depths.
“Offshore reducing has historically been considered as the ultimate stage in an asset’s lifecycle,” stated Michael O’Neill, Decom’s head of enterprise growth. “That notion is altering and we’re more and more being deployed a lot earlier within the asset lifecycle, significantly for set up and commissioning.”
Decom presently has C1-16UL models deployed or mobilizing in Brazil, Canada, the U.S., UK North Sea and Cameroon. The corporate expects its fleet to achieve 10 C1-16UL models and 4 C1-10 techniques by the top of 2026.
