Pipeline Repair

Decades of unmatched experience and innovative, field-proven pipeline repair technologies enable us to rapidly respond to your concerns. We implement safe, reliable solutions that minimize environmental impact and restore production quickly.

Avoid severe economic and environmental impacts associated with subsea pipeline failures and sudden production stoppages.

Covering a broad range of sizes, pressure ratings, and water depths, we complete subsea inspection, identify failure modes, prepare damaged assets, and perform repairs that bring your production back online quickly. When it comes to creating the best pipeline repair solution for you, we are committed to Connecting What’s Needed with What’s Next™.

We remove debris and expose the damaged subsea pipeline. We use our extensive experience with coating removal, including concrete and fusion bonded epoxy (FBE), to ensure direct access to the pipeline’s base material. Exposing the pipeline and removing the coating facilitates further visual inspection and increases the efficacy of subsea inspection.

We deploy advanced screening and assessment tools to evaluate subsea pipeline integrity. We combine our subsea and asset integrity expertise to screen miles of pipeline a day to locate anomalies. We use detailed methods  to define anomaly characteristics, both internal and external to the pipeline.

We offer cost-effective, turnkey pipeline repair solutions to ensure safe, timely flow assurance and maximum uptime. We are able to quickly deploy and install any of our suite of proprietary clamps, flanges, and taps, enabling faster turnaround.

Complete solutions for compromised pipelines

We provide the engineering and hardware required to address issues from minor defects to catastrophic failures that result in adverse effects, both environmentally and economically.

Our integrated, turnkey coating removal, pipeline preparation, inspection, and repair solutions provide optimal results.

  • Deliver cost efficiency
  • Streamline activities
  • Maximize uptime
  • Ensure safe and timely flow assurance

Smart Flange Plus Connectors

Our field-proven connectors attach to and seal against the pipeline or riser to enable the safe completion of permanent subsea repairs, providing a robust, structural connection point subsea. These connectors can withstand full pipeline axial, bending, and torsional loads while maintaining full line pressure integrity.

  • Used to complete thousands of repairs in shallow-water to ultra-deepwater applications
  • Eliminates the need for hyperbaric welding
  • ROV-operated hydraulic smart flange (HSF) connectors support driverless applications

Hydraulic Double Grip and Seal Connector

The hydraulic double grip and seal connector builds on the success of our field-proven technologies and delivers a solution for deepwater connections between existing subsea pipelines. This connector’s design includes the internal components of two sets of our hydraulic smart flange connectors.

  • Suitable for deepwater applications
  • Provides a robust, structural connection

Smart Clamp

Our smart clamp helps you avoid costly shutdowns and expensive hyperbaric welding by repairing damaged or leaking pipelines with our diver-installable and diverless permanent repair clamp. The smart clamp design, available in structural and non-structural versions, provides a permanent, high-quality seal, reinforcement, and pressure containment within the encapsulated area for the duration of the design life of the pipeline.

Smart Tap Fitting and Hot Tapping Services

Our smart tap fitting enables efficient operations with a flanged branch for hot tapping an existing pipeline and tying in a new, lateral pipeline.

  • Enables tie-in to existing an pipeline without a pipeline shutdown or hyperbaric welding
  • Permanent, high-quality seal suitable for design life of pipeline

B-CON Misalignment Ball Connector

The B-CON misalignment ball connector is designed to increase installation efficiency when working with piping and pipeline systems where misalignment of connecting pipe ends is a challenge. The B-CON connector has performance characteristics and versatility that exceed those of welded pipe or conventional flanges. While primarily intended for subsea piping operations, the B-CON connector is a valuable piece of equipment in any application—topside or subsea—where misalignment is a concern.

  • Significantly reduces subsea pipeline connection installation time
  • Provides a leak-tight metal seal
  • Suitable for topside and subsea installation.

Typical applications

  • Emergency leak sealing and local reinforcement after impact or corrosion events.
  • Permanent connections and tie-ins for brownfield expansion without full shutdowns.
  • Replacement or bypass of damaged sections where hyperbaric welding is impractical or high-risk.
  • Riser repairs and riser-to-pipeline joints under complex load regimes.

Why operators choose Fortumorbis

  • Engineering first: all hardware is paired with an integrity-centric engineering package tailored to the specific incident and operating environment.
  • Diverless capability: ROV-operable hardware and hydraulic systems reduce personnel risk and speed interventions.
  • Field-proven designs: our connector and clamp family has been operational across a wide range of water depths and service conditions.
  • Turnkey delivery: single-point responsibility from site preparation through testing and handover, simplifying logistics and contracting.
  • Focus on flow assurance: our objective is safe, timely restoration of production with measurable reductions in downtime and environmental exposure.

Technical snapshot (quick reference)

  • Coverage: shallow water → ultra-deepwater operations.
  • Services: dredging & excavation, coating removal (concrete, FBE), ROV/diver inspection, NDE screening, mechanical repair installation, hot-tap tie-ins.
  • Design goals: restore pressure integrity, transfer structural loads, minimize operational interruption.

Ready to connect what’s needed with what’s next?

If your operation faces a compromised pipeline, contact Fortumorbis for a rapid technical assessment and turnkey repair proposal. We blend subsea engineering rigor with practical, deployable hardware to bring pipelines back to service — safely, quickly, and with minimal environmental impact.