On this page you'll read about the following subjects:
- What is marine maintenance?
- What is offshore maintenance?
- Preventive maintenance for marine and offshore
- Marine and offshore maintenance services
- AREPA and marine maintenance
What is marine maintenance
With regular marine maintenance you ensure the safety, performance and reliability of your ships. The marine maintenance of AREPA focusses on repairing and servicing all kinds of components and systems on marine vessels.
In case of a disaster or failure, such as fire or water damage, AREPA has the knowledge of reconditioning the damage onboard ships and vessels. We provide professional consultancy and solutions to properly clean and recondition damaged materials. Our marine experts have conducted numerous recovery efforts following disasters, flooding, fire, salvage, preservation, technical reconditioning, and condition-based maintenance incidents or new builds.
Onboard fire reconditioning
Onboard fires are usually extinguished quickly, thanks to the high classification of many ships’ fire alarms and extinguishing systems. This means that primary damage is often relatively limited. Whereas ‘secondary damage’, the results from soot, salt and chlorides, is often much more extensive, including an increased risk of corrosion, short circuits, and arc flashes.
What is offshore maintenance?
On offshore platforms, there’s a lot of machinery that needs maintenance on a regular basis. Think of machines such as pumps, motors, generators, and turbines. Because of all these production processes, there’s a chance of errors and failures. It’s key to reduce reactive maintenance to a minimum. Preventive maintenance provides you a way out.
Preventive maintenance for marine and offshore
Over time, pollution and dust can accumulate on your installations and machines, leading to failures and downtime. To minimize downtime and failures, preventive maintenance is crucial as it helps prevent these issues beforehand. That’s how you increase productivity and safety and prolong the lifespan of your offshore machinery, ships and vessels. AREPA has a team of specialists ready to conduct this preventive maintenance on a regular basis on your offshore site or your ships.
Marine and offshore maintenance services
AREPA has the capacity and expertise to provide total solutions and project management following any size fire and water damage incident. We offer a number of services,
Thermographic inspection
With the help of thermal camera’s we inspect the anomalies of the machine. It can function as a starting point of the cleaning or reconditioning.
Contamination level assessment
Assessing the level of contamination is a crucial process used to determine the cleanliness of various components within marine vehicles and structures. The presence of saltwater, biological growth, and pollutants make assessing ships and vessels challenging. Keeping these factors out of machinery is important to ensure its longevity and performance. The primary objective of this assessment is to ensure that all systems are functioning within acceptable levels of cleanliness and purity to safeguard the marine vehicle’s performance and durability.
HCL testing
Hydrogen Chloride (HCL) causes corrosion in various components. It is crucial to check for any corrosion in your marine machinery or offshore platform, as these components are exposed to harsh conditions like saltwater, humidity, and various chemicals.
Generator cleaning and recertification
Generators are crucial for providing backup power on both ships and offshore platforms. It's important to keep them free from pollutants and potential malfunctions, which is why a comprehensive cleaning, testing, and certification process is necessary from time to time. This ensures that the generator meets safety and performance standards, making it reliable during critical situations.
AREPA and marine maintenance
AREPA has 24-hour emergency teams in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, North America, The Netherlands and many other locations. Our teams are ready and waiting on standby to establish the extent, level, and effects of contamination. Within a few hours, the team can provide an outline of the consequences of the contamination and create a plan of action to restore the ship to its pre-loss condition.
Do you need more information about our marine maintenance or offshore maintenance? Don’t hesitate to contact us.