Deepwater mooring rope specialist, Lankhorst Ropes Offshore Division is announcing a new improved creep HMPE mooring rope made with Dyneema® for a new generation of permanent deepwater moorings beyond 2,000m water depth, on booth 1353 at OTC 2012.
The Lankhorst booth will also feature the latest developments in cut-resistant jackets for fibre rope mooring lines, and Lankhorst Mouldings’ buoyancy modules for fibre rope mooring lines for the Goliat FPSO project.
Creep Gama® 98 rope moorings
Based on the Lankhorst Gama® 98 rope construction, the High Modulus Polyethylene (HMPE) rope made with Dyneema® has been engineered to meet the mechanical demands of 30 year deepwater offshore moorings. “ Beyond 2,000m, platforms moored with polyester lines can experience high horizontal offsets which may exceed the limits of risers,” says Chris Johnson, sales director, Lankhorst Ropes Offshore Division . “The new rope’s improved creep, and higher stiffness, will provide the optimum station-keeping conditions for permanent moorings at ultra-deepwater depths.”
OTC paper – Creep HMPE Fibre for Deepwater Permanent Mooring
Sérgio Leite, technical director, Lankhorst Ropes Offshore Division has co-authored, a paper on the ultra-low creep HMPE Dyneema®, entitled: Development of Ultralow Creep HMPE Fibre for Deepwater Permanent Mooring, with J. Boesten, DSM Dyneema; M. Vlasblom, DSM Dyneema; and P. Davies, Ifremer. OTC Paper 23333 in Room 604, on Thursday 3 May at 9.30am.
[mappress] Subsea World News Staff , April 27, 2012; Image: Lankhorst Ropes