Offshore rope manufacturer Lankhorst Euronete Brasil (LEB) has been awarded a contract by OOGTK Libra GmbH & Co KG to supply the polyester mooring ropes for a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit in the Libra oil field.
Libra is a large, ultra deepwater oil field in the Santos Basin, 143m (230km) off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The FPSO will be moored in 7900ft (2400m) water depth using an external cantilever turret comprising nine mooring lines, arranged in three groups of three mooring lines each (3 x 3 clusters). Each mooring line will consist of 4000m-long hybrid chain-fibre rope-chain line.
In total Lankhorst is supplying 58,800m of Cabral 512 Deep Water Polyester Mooring Rope with a minimum breaking strength of 12,300 kN.
The mooring system is designed as a taut catenary system, where each mooring line is connected to the FPSO via a chain stopper at its upper end, and to a torpedo pile through a pile shackle at the lower end.
The FPSO Pioneiro de Libra will be operated by OOGTK Libra GmbH & Co KG, a 50-50 joint venture between Odebrecht Oil & Gas and Teekay Offshore. Production capacity will be 50,000 b/d and 4 MMcm/d of gas injection.
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