Deepwater Mooring Connectors

Deepwater Mooring – driving the mooring agenda

As moorings go deeper, so issues surrounding the mechanical and practical demands on the design and deployment of mooring systems are coming to the fore. Deepwater mooring is more technically demanding than shallow water mooring.

First Subsea is committed to developing the 'next generation' of deepwater mooring systems that accurately reflect the practical and technological demands of deploying mooring systems beyond 10,000 ft (3,000m). The 'typical' deepwater mooring line comprises an anchor or pile capable of resisting vertical uploads (conventional piles and anchors only need resist horizontal loads); shackles, chains, connecting links, steel wire and synthetic rope.


By reducing the make-up time per connector and thus the total mooring line deployment time, significant savings can be made in mooring systems deployment.

LankoFirst Fibre Rope Connector

Working with mooring technology partner, Offspring International, First Subsea is driving innovation in mooring connectors with the new LankoFirst fibre rope connector. The new connector will revolutionise the ease with which deepwater fibre mooring lines are connected and deployed offshore. The LankoFirst range includes rope-rope, rope-wire and rope-chain connectors.

Mooring Line Jewellery

First Subsea has developed a new range of mooring line segment connectors, commonly referred to as 'jewellery', that improves the design of traditional H-link and Pear link connectors, and includes forged metal H-links and crossed H-links, and fabricated Pear / Plate links for deepwater subsea mooring lines. The crossed H-link (shown) is designed specifically to eliminate the need for mooring line shackles.