The Challenge:

The Prime engineers had to pre-machine two faces of the blow out protector and its annular where seals were located. The faces on the BOP had corroded, and the seal grove on the annular required pad welding. Pad welding is suitable for the repair of part suffering wear and tear damage or deterioration. It involves applying metallic coatings where a characteristic feature is the remelting of the substrate material on which the padding weld has been deposited.

Due to the high standard required to ensure this component does not fail when it is most needed, i.e., preventing a blowout, Prime Engineering did not have the correct welding codes and procedures to undertake the welding on this job. Working with our client, it was decided to outsource this job to welding experts.

Following pad welding, we machined the padding weld back to the client’s specified dimensions and tolerances, ready for reassembly.