Survitec, a supplier of mooring systems to the offshore market, has provided an Exxonmobil oil field in Angola with a 180-meter single leg mooring hawser.
Weighing in at just under nine tonnes, and with a diameter of over 150mm, the rope provides a Minimum Breaking Load (MBL) of 924 tonnes.
It will be used to moor a large offloading tanker to a Floating Production Storage Offtake (FPSO) vessel.
Assembly of the system was carried out at Survitec’s Lowestoft service station in the UK.
The hawser was designed in full accordance with the latest OCIMF 2000 “Guidelines for the Purchasing & Testing of SPM Hawsers” and certified by American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) prior to delivery to the customer.
David Bell , Survitec’s international business development manager, said: “We have been involved in the FPSO/Offtake Mooring market for many years and we have built up considerable experience in putting together bespoke packages for our clients. Thanks to our close working relationship with one the world’s top chain manufacturers, we were able to present a full technical proposal for this product that met our customer’s very specific requirements.”