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Products

Lankhorst Mooring Ropes for Western Isles Development FPSO

Lankhorst Ropes won a contract by Aberdeen based Dana Pe- troleum to provide Gama 98 polyester mooring lines for the

Western Isles Development FPSO vessel (Floating Production

Storage and Offl oading).

Given the weather conditions in the North Sea, and relatively shallow water depth, the cylindrically shaped FPSO will use a semi-taut leg mooring system. It will be moored with 14 poly- ester mooring lines in three clusters of 4, 4 and 6 lines at 250m water depth. Two clusters will have longer lines to the prevailing weather that, together with seabed chain, will provide the lateral restoring force needed to keep the production vessel on station.

The Gama 98 polyester rope tethers are made from high effi ciency, parallel laid sub-rope cores within an outer braided jacket.

During manufacture all of the sub-ropes are monitored to ensure they all have equal tension and length, ensuring a 100% torque free rope. The Western Isles Project (Dana 77% and Cieco 23%) will develop two discovered oil fi elds called Harris and Barra in the Northern North Sea, 160km east of the Shetlands and 12km west of Tern fi eld. It involves a subsea develop- ment of at least fi ve production and four water injection wells plus two exploration wells tied back to a new build fl oating production, storage and offl oading vessel (FPSO) with oil export using shuttle tankers. www.lankhorstropes.com iXBlue, Septentrio

Create ATLANS-C iXBlue launched its new ATLANS-

C position and orientation system, developed in close cooperation with

Septentrio Satellite Navigation. The system is designed to provide continu- ous and accurate positioning in urban environments, where global naviga- tion satellite system (GNSS) signals are obscured, intermittent or possibly distorted by refl ective surfaces. www.ixblue.com

Seacon Expands Connector Range

With increasing requirements for connectors to operate in hazardous environments and many applications now requir- ing quick and safe disconnection of connectors to be used in these environments SEA CON has developed a new robust range of Exd connectors due to be released soon. The EX-

MATE is based around SEA CON’s existing and successful

SEA-MATE connector range and is fully wet-mateable in addition to its suitability for use in explosive environments.

This new range will be available in four shell sizes (G, K, L,

M) with between 2 & 37 contact confi gurations, however like the SEA-MATE range this series has interchangeable inserts so can be adapted to a number of pin confi gurations. www.seaconworldwide.com

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