55te Submersible Load Shackles 📰
4th Apr 2025These submersible 55 tonne load shackles have been supplied to a UK customer for mooring line load monitoring on a newly designed floating platform for deep water subsea tiebacks. They will be installed on a small demonstrator unit currently undergoing trails off the south-west coast of England to provide real time data on the tensions in the mooring lines to check that they stay within safe limits, and to provide information on the effect that environmental conditions (waves, wind etc) have on the anchor system.
If successful, this floating platform could be used to power subsea oil and gas stations without the requirement for long distance umbilicals, which would reduce operational costs as well as green house gas emissions.