The clamp, designed by Oil States Industries in Houston, will provide risk mitigation in the event of a breach of the subsea pipeline, which runs along the Baltic Sea floor from Vyborg, Russia, to Lubmin, Germany. It consists of two matched halves cut from a single 120-inch diameter ingot 22 feet (6.7 metres) long.
The job pushed “the limits of capable production”, says SFIL group projects director George Brown.
