Efficient Wave-Generated Power … Really!
, a New Jersey-based marine engineering firm that has been in continuous operation since 1875 which incubated SurfWEC LLC in December of 2018. SurfWEC, with university and industry partners -- Stevens Institute of Technology, ABB, Airline Hydraulics, Bosch-Rexroth, Deeptek, HYDAC, ISCO Pipe, Wire Co./Lankhorst Ropes, and others – is working to develop WECs using patented features that are expected to increase energy recovery rates by an order of magnitude as stand-alone units or integrated with legacy WEC systems.The SurfWEC system is also designed to avoid wave damage associated with hurricanes,
Lankhorst Fibre Mooring Lines for World’s Largest Fish Farm
and two fixed bulkheads allowing it to be divided into three separate compartments, enabling different fish related operations to be performed. The installation is planned to be fully automated to eliminate heavy manual operations. The fish farm mooring lines are being manufactured at Lankhorst Ropes Offshore’s state-of-the-art, fibre rope facility at Viana de Castello in Portugal. Lankhorst Ropes Offshore is a world leading supplier for fibre rope mooring lines used in oil and gas, deepwater mooring applications around the world.
MTR100: Lankhorst Ropes
Lankhorst Ropes is a leading supplier of synthetic fiber and steel wire mooring and towing ropes, and specialist ropes for the maritime and offshore industries, particularly deepwater moorings and handling systems. As a Royal Lankhorst Euronete Group company, Lankhorst Ropes, Founded in 1803, is also part of the world’s largest steel wire manufacturer, WireCo WorldGroup, leveraging over 200 years’ experience in the manufacture and supply of high performance ropes for mooring and towing applications. It has won awards for maritime rope safety and handling, and recently an OTC Spotlight on
Lankhorst Mooring Ropes for Western Isles Development FPSO
Lankhorst Ropes won a contract by Aberdeen based Dana Petroleum to provide Gama 98 polyester mooring lines for the Western Isles Development FPSO vessel (Floating Production Storage and Offloading). 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 polyester 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
Lankhorst Wins Big Spar Mooring Contract
Offshore rope manufacturer Lankhorst Ropes has been awarded a contract by Hyundai Heavy Industries and Technip USA consortium (HHITECH) to supply the mooring lines for Statoil’s Aasta Hansteen Spar platform to be located in the Norwegian sector of the Norwegian Sea. According to Lankhorst, it is the largest single order for deepwater mooring ropes, and believed to be the largest ever order in the global synthetic fiber rope industry. Located in the Aasta Hansteen field, approximately 300 km west of Bodø, the Spar platform will be moored with 17 polyester mooring lines in groups of 6, 5
Lankoforce Riser Tethers for Knarr Field Development
Offshore mooring rope specialist, Lankhorst Ropes was awarded a contract by NOV Flexibles, Denmark, to supply Lankoforce riser tethers for the Knarr field development, located in 410m of water in the North Tampen region of the Norwegian Sector of the Northern North Sea. The riser tethers will be the first to use Dyneema DM 20, a high modulus polyethylene (HMPE) rope, for permanent subsea anchoring of flexible risers. Lankoforce riser tethers are designed to hold risers and umbilicals in position, connected to subsea production systems such as well manifolds, wellheads, Christmas trees and well
Lankhorst Increases Ropes Supply Range
Ropes manufacturer Lankhorst Ropes Offshore Division expanded its range of high performance mooring and anchoring ropes to include steel wire ropes for the offshore market. The company is now able to offer both synthetic and steel wire ropes for mooring and anchor systems, as well as towing, crane lifting, riser tensioners and drilling applications. Initially, Lankhorst will supply six-strand, eight-strand and multi strand (non-rotating) steel wire ropes direct from WireCo WorldGroup factories in Germany, U.S., Mexico, Portugal and Poland. As a leading manufacturer of steel wire ropes
Lankofirst Debuts Fiber Rope Connector for Deepwater Mooring
Lankhorst Ropes Offshore Division (LROD) announced the latest results of offshore trials of its Lankofirst synthetic fiber rope mooring connector on booth 1517 at OTC 2013. The trials have shown a significant reduction in mooring line deployment times and improvements in health and safety using the Lankofirst connector, compared with traditional mooring line plate links and thimbles. The Lankhorst booth will also feature the ultra-low creep HMPE mooring rope made with Dyneema for permanent deepwater moorings beyond 2,000m water depth, and Lankhorst Mouldings' buoyancy modules for fiber rope
Lankhorst Tug Bollard Pull Rope Test
Rosetti Marino, a turnkey builder of oil platforms and service vessels for the offshore sector, has chosen a Lankhorst LankoForce rope for bollard pull testing for its new platform supply vessels (PSV) and anchor handling tugs. The rope was used recently to test the company's most powerful tug-to-date with a bollard pull of 220 metric tons. Based in Ravenna, Italy, Rosetti Marino specializes in PSVs designed to provide assistance to offshore oil platforms and safely transport equipment and material to and from the platforms—even those located in very rough waters, such as the Baltic Sea and
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