Rope manufacturer Lankhorst Ropes, was awarded a contract by Shell to supply the mooring lines for the Appomattox development to be located approximately 140nm southeast of New Orleans in the Gulf of Mexico.
Lankhorst Ropes is supplying 78 rope lengths totaling over 63,000m of Lankhorst’s Gama 98 polyester deepwater mooring rope with minimum breaking strength of 21,545 kN.
The Gama 98 ropes will be manufactured at Lankhorst’s factory in Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
Appomattox’s semisubmersible four-column production platform will be moored in approximately 7200ft (2195m) of water using 16 mooring lines arranged in 4x4 clusters.
Image: Appomattox FPS/Shell
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