World Record for the Wellhead Picker

NCA has successfully completed a subsea wellhead recovery operation at 265 meter water depth in the Northern North Sea.

The cutting and recovery operation, which included a net guard and the subsea wellhead, was performed from the subsea contruction vessel Olympic Zeus and marks a new world record for water depth with the Internal Multistring Cutting Tool (IMCT). The cut was made 5 meters below the seabed as per NORSOK guidelines and actual time spent on site was less than 26 hours despite up to 6 meters heave during the operation.

NCA's scope of work on the project was; 

• project management 
• engineering and preparation of work program 
• facilitate hazop 
• mobilisation of vessel, cutting and recovery equipment 
• offshore removal of net guard and subsea wellhead 
• "as left" survey 
• demobilisation

For more information, please contact an NCA sales representative or project manager Øystein Kanestrøm (oka@nca-group.com / +47 51 64 91 60).