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Offshore moorings offer ships and a variety of floating structures, such as dry docks, piers, bridges, and oil drilling and production facilities, a temporary or permanent berthing option. In the course of oil transfer activities, tankers are frequently moored at offshore moorings.
The process of mooring involves anchoring the ship to a permanent or floating object and maintaining that connection during loading and unloading activities. Wind, current, tide, and waves are only a few of the forces that a safe mooring must face.
A mooring is any permanent structure to which a seaborne vessel (such as a boat, ship, or amphibious aircraft) can be attached. Quays, wharfs, jetties, piers, anchor buoys, and mooring buoys are a few examples. A ship is moored to prevent it from moving freely on the water.
The Global Offshore Mooring Market accounted for $XX Billion in 2022 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2023 to 2030.
Gall Thomson Launches Emergency Mooring Release System for Offshore Applications.
Gall Thomson has developed an innovative new automatic actuation system that promises to reduce the safety risks associated with the manual emergency release of mooring systems during FPSO tandem offloading ocean towage, heading control, positioning, and decommissioning-related operations.
PODx reduces the risk of personnel injury, equipment damage, and subsequent downtime by remotely releasing mooring hawser chains under full load in a timely and safe manner.Compatible applications include FPSO or FSO tandem loading, emergency towing, FPSO heading control, and station keeping.
Conventional tankers can also improve safety by using PODx instead of or in addition to traditional chain stoppers.
In addition to its performance characteristics, PODx is cost-effective for operators and, thanks to its unique design that allows for easy reset, is reusable after activation.
It is simple to maintain and has long maintenance-free periods, which can contribute to lower insurance premium costs.
The PODx, which is mounted between two shackles, does not require drilling or fixing to the vessel deck, making it simple to install or retrofit. Its small size reduces its impact on the FPSO deck, and the technology includes safety interlocks to ensure no unintentional release.
Imenco introduced its corrosion protection technology for offshore mooring chains. According to Imenco, the technology, which was initially created for use on FPSO mooring chains, is equally adaptable to any mooring system, including those on floating wind platforms or offshore aquaculture projects.
According to Imenco, the combination of its Piranha clamp and a bracket-mounted integrated sacrificial anode dramatically slows the rate of corrosion and increases the lifespan of mooring systems.
Currently, it is well acknowledged that existing mooring chains corrode at an unpredictable rate; expensive and time-consuming replacements are made, but this does not address the issue of a high turnover in the chain’s lifespan and corrosion-related failure rates of mooring systems.
The product has undergone extensive internal and external testing, and operators can now benefit from the whole ICT package, including computer modelling, testing, installation, and verification of the protection, as the product moves from qualification to commercialization.
Thinner chains can be employed in both new and replacement systems thanks to the cathodic protection of chains, which creates the possibility of lowering corrosion allowances.
This results in reduced weight, which means less equipment is required for handling, transportation, and installation, lowering the operation’s carbon footprint.
There are many uses for Pacu in the oil and gas sector, including near-shore moorings and permanently moored offshore installations, as well as in other nautical sectors, such as offshore wind.
One of the largest small-craft recreational harbours on the West Coast, Newport Harbour is home to about 1,200 moorings, all of which have been managed by the city of Newport Beach.
800 of those 1,200 moorings, spread among 10 separate mooring fields, are offshore moorings. Boaters who wish to use them must submit an application, and the Harbour Department reported receiving requests to increase the duration of some offshore moorings.
However, upon inspection, municipal staff discovered there were no efficient or reliable ways to accomplish this, which ultimately resulted in what was described in a staff report delivered to the municipal Council as a disorganised arrangement of moorings of various sizes throughout the mooring fields.
The proposal would reorganise the mooring field to double-row moorings, bringing the boats closer together, occupying less land, and providing the same number of potential berths.
Similar-sized boats would be arranged in similar rows. In the San Diego harbour, which is barely 15 acres, there are about 180 moorings available.
In contrast, Newport Harbour has 30 acres of space with around 200 moorings. The trial programme will begin with only one or two rows of Mooring Field C being changed, and after it has been approved, the rest of the field will be altered over the course of 30 days.
