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Versabar launches new decommissioning tools

Versabar has developed innovative tools for VB 10,000 platform decommissioning use with its VB 10,000 heavy lift vessel. One requires the platform’s legs to be severed tool, named the Claw, is a grappling device and the topside to be seafastened and that will retrieve topsides from the sea? oor; transported on a barge. Preparation for eliminating the use of hooks as lift points. the barge alone could take 3-5 hours and

Another tool, the Versacutter, is a proto- up to 10 personnel. Versabar remedies the type developed to sever bottom-founded ine