FTL Subsea are developing a mooring connector to provide simple and robust mooring line connection at the seabed.
The following video shows a flythough animation of the Flintstone Subsea Mooring Connector.
The product incorporates five key features required by customers:
– Simple double shear load path with full diameter pin contact
– Top entry installation
– Self –alignment for main load pin
– Auto locking of the pin
– Simple ROV operation
The manufacturing partner Vulcan SFM (part of the Sheffield Forgemaster’s International Group) provides FTL Subsea with their metallurgical knowledge and a long history of supplying the oil and gas industry with critical load path components.
Vulcan benefit from having melting, forging, heat treatment and machining on a single site providing a level of quality control during manufacturing that is unsurpassed.
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Subsea World News Staff , February 5, 2013; Video: Youtube