Offshore staff
CAPELLE AAN DEN IJSSEL, the Netherlands – Vryhof Anchors has won three contracts to provide its STEVSHARK REX anchors for offshore projects.
The company will supply 12 x 16-metric ton (17.6-ton) STEVSHARK REX anchors to Perenco to support permanently moored facilities for theLa Noumbi FPSO at the Yombo field offshore Congo.
Here there is irregular seabed, due to hard outcropping sediments and pockmarks - remnants of dewatering and/or degasification processes.
For Maersk Drilling, the company will provide anchors to the semisubmersibleMaersk Developer for operations in block E of the East Coast Marine Area offshore Trinidad and Tobago.
Finally, Vryhof is supplying anchors to CNGS Group in the Caspian Sea, whose construction manager Levgenii Ivankiv said: “Compared to the weight and size of the concrete anchors and 18 metric-ton [19.8-ton] delta flipper anchors we previously used, the STEVSHARK REX - in addition to the high holding capacity - is easy to handle, is relatively light and needs less space on the aft deck of the anchor handler.
“We also do not have to return to harbor all the time to reload.”
In addition, the anchors have undergone tests with Woodside Energy at four different locations on the Angel oil field on Australia’s North West Shelf project.
The fields were selected due to the presence of calcarenite - a cemented and brittle rock. In all cases, Vryhof claims, the tests were faultless with the anchor able to keep the 243-metric ton (268-ton) bollard pull anchor handling tug supply vessel in position during proof load tests.
04/27/2018
