(Ecofin Agency) - Survitec, a company that supplies mooring systems to the offshore market, has provided an ExxonMobil oil field in Angola with a 180-meter single leg mooring hawser

The rope which weighs just under nine tonnes, and with a diameter of over 150mm, provides a Minimum Breaking Load (MBL) of 924 tonnes.

The rope is to be used to moor a large offloading tanker to a Floating Production Storage Off take (FPSO) vessel.

“We have been involved in the FPSO/Off take mooring market for many years and we have built up considerable experience in putting together bespoke packages for our clients. Thanks to our close working relationship with one the world’s top chain manufacturers, we were able to present a full technical proposal for this product that met our customer’s very specific requirements.” David Bell, Survitec’s international business development manager, told Subsea world news.

However, assembling of the system was carried out at Survitec’s Lowestoft service station in the UK.