Mooring

Case Study 1 - Perdido
  

Deepwater Mooring just got deeper

Subsea mooring connectors are going deeper. First Subsea's Ballgrab mooring connectors have recently been used to moor Shell's Perdido Development direct vertical access spar in around 8,000 ft (2,438m) of ultra deepwater in Alaminos Canyon in the Gulf of Mexico, setting a new record for the connector's deepest mooring.
 

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Case Study 2 - Thunder Hawk Mooring
 

Polyester Rope Mooring for Thunder Hawk DeepDraft Semi
 

The latest deepwater platform to come on stream in the Gulf of Mexico is the Thunder Hawk DeepDraft Semi in the Thunder Hawk field located 240 kilometres south-east of New Orleans. Designed and constructed by SBM Atlantia, the Thunder Hawk FPU is using a polyester rope from Lankhorst Offshore Ropes Division (formerly Quintas & Quintas Offshore) to give the platform a 'softer' deepwater mooring.
 

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