Kongsberg Maritime has developed a brand new mooring succesful answer for Offshore Building Vessels (OSCVs), increasing the capabilities of OSCVs past their present scope to incorporate the pre-lay of mooring traces as a pure extension to unique suction anchor capabilities.
By integrating a goal designed anchor dealing with winch, shark jaws and stern rollers into the design of OSCVs on the newbuild stage, vessel homeowners can now equip their ships to carry out a broader vary of mooring operations. This development permits OSCVs to deal with extra duties independently, filling the scarcity of vessels able to large-scale mooring installations.
OSCVs are presently restricted to setting massive suction piles or pushed piles into the seabed utilizing onboard cranes and ROVs, with out requiring extra vessel tools. Whereas some mooring traces could be put in utilizing advert hoc strategies, the brand new answer from Kongsberg Maritime implies that OSCVs can carry out these duties safer and extra effectively.
“There will likely be a scarcity of vessels with subsea crane and enough deck space suited to help the deliberate excessive quantity of each massive anchors and mooring traces within the years to come back,” mentioned Runar Hjele, Gross sales Director, Offshore Building & Assist Kongsberg Maritime. “With the addition of this method, OSCVs turn out to be a extra engaging and environment friendly answer, particularly when there’s a scarcity of specialised mooring set up vessels.
“The Kongsberg proposed changes to development vessel newbuilds will place them to tackle a bigger portion of mooring line installations. These vessels have synergies with different discipline improvement actions, so the message to homeowners is why not make your development vessels Mooring Set up Succesful?”
With the brand new space-saving Kongsberg Maritime system, OSCVs are ready for the set up of anchors and pre-lay of mooring traces (each chain and fiber rope) with out compromising on their development capabilities.
