The invention discloses a reducing production method of deepwater
submerged arc welding large-
caliber steel pipes. In order to overcome the defects of reduction of the compression strength and incapability of satisfying the bruising pressure performance requirements of deepwater pipelines in a traditional JCOE process for producing thick-wall steel pipes, the method comprises such process steps as edge milling, edge pre-bending, JCO molding, joint closing and prewelding, inner
welding, outer
welding, mechanical reducing, quality checking,
water pressure test, quality checking and chamfering, wherein the mechanical reducing is to perform the annular compression for the whole lengths of the steel pipes by a steel
pipe sizing press. The method has the following beneficial effects: the steel
pipe sizing press is used for annularly compressing the full lengths of the steel pipes, so that the steel pipes are locally deformed, the diameters of the pipes are decreased, and the size tolerances of the steel pipes are improved; because of the mechanical reducing, the
residual stress is reduced, the straightness of the steel pipes is improved, the cold molding process of the steel pipes is optimized, and the compression yield strength and the bruising pressure of the steel pipes are improved; and all technical parameters of the steel pipes accord with the deepwater pipeline requirements through strict technical control.