Offshore staff
VIANA DO CASTELO, Portugal– Lankhorst Euronete Portugal has completed the engineering, design, fabrication, and delivery of the deepwater mooring rope for Shell’s Appomattox project in the Gulf of Mexico.
The company supplied 78 rope lengths totaling more than 63,000 m (206,692 ft) of Lankhorst’s Gama 98 polyester deepwater mooring rope with minimum breaking strength of 21,545 kN. This, the company claims, is the longest ever rope meterage for a single deepwater mooring contract.
According to Lankhorst, the project involved many industry and company firsts. These included: the first time two mooring ropes have been packed on a single reel, the largest reels ever handled (6-m dia. x 6.8-m traverse), and the heaviest reels ever handled (about 120 metric tons). A total of 78 ropes of 273-mm (10.7-in.) diameter were manufactured in lengths of 304 m, 762 m, and 914 m (997 ft, 2,500 ft, and 3,000 ft).
TheAppomattox semisubmersible production platform will be moored using 16 mooring lines arranged in 4x4 clusters, in 2,255 m (7,400 ft) of water about 130 km (80 mi) offshore Louisiana.
04/18/2018
