walking on water
Walking on waterWater is our most important natural resource. A source of life, energy, and power — and the driving force behind all of OPD’s activities.
Water can also be damaging. The existing pipeline network suffers from high levels of leakage, and is not designed to serve a growing population with rising expectations of comfort and convenience.
As one of Scandinavia’s biggest subsea contractors for inshore projects, we lay several meters of underwater pipes every day. Whether you’re a municipal water customer or a cabin owner with a private water supply, we enable you to enjoy clean drinking water, refreshing showers, working toilets, and thermal energy.
OPD can track its roots back to 1955, and the plastics and diving divisions of Brødrene Sørensen AS. Today, with a skilled staff of 140, we are well positioned to continue our international expansion.
Using technology to our advantage, and starting from the assumption that nothing is impossible, we take pride in our slogan: Walking on Water.
Nils-Johan TuftePresident and CEOOPD Group AS
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Marine InfrastructureOnshore Infrastructure
ThermoplasticsRefurbishment
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Marine InfrastructureTo us, there are no limits under water. After all, this is where we started out, as two small divisions of a multidisciplinary industrial company in southeastern Norway. Underwater pipelines, seabed mapping, and turnkey subsea contracts are our main business activities. As one of the biggest commercial inshore diving companies in Scandinavia, we can handle a wide range of projects and work closely with you, the client, to create tailor-made solutions, cautiously respecting our fragile marine ecosystem.
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Our ServicesInstallation:
› Underwater pipelines for drinking water, sewage water, and natural gas
› Intake pipes for district heating and cooling systems
› Discharge pipes
› Subsea cables
Inspection, survey, and certification:
› Underwater and subsea installations
› Technical installations such as discharge pipes, docks, piers, and power plants
› Track survey, pipeline location, and seabed mapping
› Ship inspections, including repairs and extrica-tion of rope or wire from propellers and thrusters
› Survey work
Refurbishment:
› Power plants — intake cleaning, hatch replace-ment, closure grates, containment booms
Marine installations:
› Erosion protection, underwater concrete casting, formwork, underwater concrete rehabilitation
› Installation of anodes, corrosion protection, under water welding and flame cutting of steel
› Hydro-electric tunnel work
› Fill flushing and vacuuming, seabed trench work, dredging
› ROV (mini submarine) operations at depths up to 2,300 ft
› Moorings
Assistance with:
› Rescue and underwater search operations
› Oil cleanup, salvage, towing
› Transportation of sacks, materials, machinery, and equipment
We use Olex, a comprehensive seabed mapping system, integrated with Waasp, Geodata, and Trimble.
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Onshore InfrastructureA wilder, wetter, warmer climate is presenting big challenges. How can we adapt to these changes? Local governments have a key role to play in this process. Our contribution is to devise sustainable solutions and products that enable municipalities to provide their residents with clean drinking water and adequate handling of sewage water.
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With our marine contracting experience, our thermoplastic products, and our premium equipment, we’re confident that we can offer the best solutions. Rather than simply identifying problems, we prefer to come up with new solutions. Our specially developed thermoplastic manholes are one innovative example.
Our Services › Replacing old pipeline networks with sustainable
solutions. Our preferred thermoplastic materials are long lasting and prevent leakage
› Solutions for connecting to municipal distribution networks
› Pressure sewage systems for homes and cabins, supplied on a turnkey or subcontractor basis
› Welding and fusion contracts of all kinds
› Supply and installation of transmission and pressure pipelines
› Thermoplastic fusion and laying of natural gas pipelines
› Pipe laying and maintenance at processing and industrial facilities
› Fusion of pipelines to serve small hydro-electric power plants.
› Flood management and diversion
› Renewable energy, i.e. geothermal, osmosis, district heating, and natural gas
› Pressure testing and disinfection
› Servicing of private and municipal pumping stations
› Servicing of power plants — hatches, closure grates, and intakes
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ThermoplasticsDid you know that, in some municipalities, half of the drinking water leaks right back into the ground?* A needless waste, don’t you think?
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OPD can point to multiple instances, where solutions to problems encountered in the trenches, have led to developing new products.Examples include our thermoplastic manholes for drinking water and sewage, and our road barriers, “PolyPig” and “PolyHog”. We develop products based on actual needs. Thermoplastics are our preferred material because we need to be certain that our products are 100% waterproof, corrosion resistant, and chemical resistant.If the existing pipeline network had been waterproof, the local governments would not have to build as many extra reservoirs.
Our Products › Thermoplastic manholes for pressure sewage
› Thermoplastic manholes for drinking water
› Municipal manholes (gutter)
› Municipal manholes (pump/pressure)
› Aquaculture systems and tanks
› Road barriers, barricades, and channelizers
› Air treatment systems (carbon filters)
› Acid tanks
› Water works tanks
› Biogas tanks
› Collectors
Our Services › Segment welding of pipe components and fittings
› Thermoplastic fusion
› Extrusion welding
› Plastic mechanics
› Rotational molding
› Work on heating plants
› Work on osmosis power plants
› Industrial pipe laying
* According to an assessment of the condition of munici-pal water and wastewater facilities by Norsk Vann, the Norwegian water industry association, in 2011.
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RefurbishmentUntil something goes wrong, most people don’t realize what it takes to ensure that clean water is flowing from the tap.
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As a result of deposits, corrosion, and cracks, older pipes are often leaky, slow-flowing, and unreliable. We inspect all types of pipes and record any non-compliance with current codes and standards. We can renew the existing pipelines without requiring people to move out of their homes.
Our Services › All types of refurbishment of pipes and distribu-
tion systems
› Internal pipe renewal using SINTEF-approved products
› Replacing old distribution networks with new, durable thermoplastic pipes
› Disinfection
› Mapping, survey, and consulting
› Pipe inspection
› Smoke testing
› Pipeline location and track survey
› Leak detection
We work closely together with Nytt Rør AS, Olimb AS and Mortens Rørinspeksjon AS.
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ØPD Group ASAsdalstrand 171,
N-3960 Stathelle, NorwayT: +47 35 96 72 10F:+47 35 96 63 37
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The largest subsea contractor
Pressure sewer systems
Seabed mappingVA
Thermoplastics
Innovative
Traffic safety
District heating systems
Intake pipe
PE
ROVIndustrial plumbingWater
Prefabrication
Air treatment systemsSurvey
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Underwater flame cutting
McElroy Welding machines
PP
Fish farming
Sea collector
Subsea cables
Plastic mechanicsPumping pipeline
Collection tanks
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Maritime
Environment
Recyclable
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Natural gasSjøfrakt
Underwater casting
PE tanks
Seabed mappingBioenergy
Welding machine
Steel welding
Bioenergy
Containment boomBridge installation
Sewers
Certified welders
ISO 9001
Rotation casting
Transmission pipeline
PolyPig
Pipe PE parts
Pipe inspection
PolyHog
Erosion protection
Gas pipes
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