Balmoral Offshore Engineering, a deepwater buoyancy and polymer specialist, has been approved by Bureau Veritas (BV) in line with American Petroleum Institute (API) specification for its SURF-related bend stiffeners and restrictors.
The API 17L standards cover the minimum requirements for design, material selection, manufacture, documentation, testing, marking and packaging of equipment.
Bend stiffeners are used to support flexible pipe, umbilicals and cables when connected to rigid structures where there is a requirement to control the minimum bend radius of the pipe.
Bend restrictors prevent over-bending at the interface between flowlines, umbilicals, cables and rigid structures by mechanically locking up. They are normally used in static applications but, unlike bend stiffeners, only provide protection once the pipe has achieved the desired bend radius between the flexible line and rigid structure.
Balmoral worked closely with independent body, Bureau Veritas, on a development program that consisted of four phases: quality audit; design review; material qualification; inspection and testing.
“We were pleased to obtain this latest recognition which complements our distributed buoyancy system approvals gained earlier in 2015,” said Fraser Milne, engineering and projects director with Balmoral.
Image:Fraser Milne/Balmoral Offshore Engineering
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