Insights and News

The Turritella FPSO, which arrived in January 2016, is turret-moored via a dis-connectable Buoyant Turret Mooring (BTM) system with nine mooring lines arranged in three bundles. Each line includes an in-line mooring connector (ILMC) located ~900 ft subsea, pre-tensioned prior to FPSO arrival. Upon recovery of the BTM, Intermoor performed final chain tensioning via the ILMCs, removed excess chain, and managed riser pull-in rope transfer to the FPSO.

Wire rope is a versatile, high‑performance component across offshore mooring systems and broader marine operations. This article covers wire rope applications in offshore moorings and marine operations, wire rope fabrication and configurations and performance, corrosion protection and inspection.

Intermoor, Acteon’s Moorings and Anchors business line, has successfully installed and hooked up a permanent mooring system for the Delta House field floating production system (FPS) in the Gulf of Mexico.