Mooring System News


DNVGL: New Mooring Line Solution for Offshore Ops

May 06, 2019

DNV GL has developed a solution that is designed to reduce the risk of offshore floating vessel mooring line failure going undetected by replacing physical sensors with a machine learning algorithm that accurately predicts line failure in real time…

Lankhorst Mooring Lines for Energean Power

May 01, 2019

Deepwater mooring rope manufacturer Lankhorst Offshore announced Wednesday it has been awarded a contract by TechnipFMC to supply the mooring lines for the Energean Power floating production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) for the Karish and Tanin gas fields…

Keppel Wins Lingshui 17-2 Engineering Work

Apr 25, 2019

Keppel FloaTEC secured an engineering services contract from China’s Offshore Oil Engineering Company (COOEC), the main engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contractor for the Lingshui 17-2 production semisubmersible to be built at COOEC's Qingdao facility in China…

Stena Don Refit Completed

Mar 26, 2019

The Stena Drilling-owned 5th generation, semi-submersible drilling rig Stena Don has undergone a major refit in the Netherlands. The vessel arrived at Damen Verolme Rotterdam (DVR) in October 2018 and departed for her new contract off the UK’s Shetland Islands in February 2019…

InterMoor Wins Jadestone Contract

Mar 25, 2019

Mooring solutions provider InterMoor said it has been contracted by Jadestone Energy to carry out a feasibility study for a permanent spread mooring system for a floating production storage and offloading unit (FPSO) at Nam Du field located in block 46/07…

Delmar Completes West Phoenix Disconnect

Mar 11, 2019

The provider of offshore mooring and subsea services, Delmar Systems said it completed an eight-line disconnect of the mooring system on Seadrill’s West Phoenix semi-submersible drilling rig on the UK Continental Shelf, using its RAR Plus Technology…

Offshore Mooring to Reach $1.1B by 2021

Feb 11, 2019

The global offshore mooring system market stood at US$0.93 bn in 2014 and is predicted to reach US$1.1 bn by 2021.It is predicted to expand at a CAGR of 3.60% from 2015 to 2021, revealed a new Transparency Market Research report.According to the report…

Floating Wind Turbine Installed at Kincardine

Nov 27, 2018

Contracted by the Spanish construction group Cobra, Bourbon Subsea Services completed the installation of the first wind turbine at Cobra Wind’s Kincardine site, Scotland, off the coast of Aberdeen this summer.For Bourbon Subsea Services the…

Rolls-Royce to Equip New Drilling Rigs

Nov 27, 2018

Rolls-Royce said it has signed agreements for the supply of mooring equipment to drilling rigs under construction at Singapore’s KeppelFELS yard and China Merchants Heavy Industry’s facility in Jiangsu, China.The 12-point mooring system Rolls…

Bourbon Awarded Floating Wind Farm Work

Oct 22, 2018

Bourbon Subsea Services has been selected by Windplus to install three floating wind turbines of 8.3 MW, 20 km off Viana do Castelo, Portuguese coast. These turbines, with a total capacity of 25 MW, are the most powerful in the floating offshore wind industry…

Jumbo to Transport, Install FSRU Mooring System

Sep 25, 2018

Jumbo has been awarded the transportation and Installation of a FSRU Mooring System including riser and umbilical, off the coast of Aracaju, Sergipe.Jumbo’s Offshore division was awarded the contract by Sapura to perform the transportation and…

SBM taps Drydocks for Johan Castberg turret

Dec 20, 2017

Turret specialist SBM Offshore has contracted Dubai based Drydocks World to construct the turret mooring system for Statoil’s Johan Castberg floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.  The Johan Castberg FPSO will be permanently…

Hurricane updates on Lancaster EPS progress, works on schedule

Dec 12, 2017

West of Shetland fractured basement explorer Hurricane Energy says work on its Lancaster early production system EPS) floating production unit and turret in Drydocks World, Dubai, are on schedule.  The Lancaster EPS is a two-well tieback to a floating production…

Video: Shell's Prelude storm safe

Sep 13, 2017

Shell has secured its Prelude floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility to the seabed offshore Western Australia, after completing the installation of eight of the 16 mooring lines. Illustration of Prelude's turret mooring system…

Montrose moves into offshore renewables

Aug 23, 2017

Montrose Port Authority in Scotland has heralded a new era of capabilities, supporting its first project within the offshore renewable sector. In association with NorSea Group (UK), a subsidiary of Norway's NorSea Group, the port is participating…

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