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We have invested
in a high-capacity
test press to meet
the increased demand.
J.P. Chia, Engineering Manager,
Trelleborg Singapore
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relleborg’s products – onto the support structure or jacket transferring the load from the barge
leg mating units (lmus), by a floating crane. But the hire rates to the jacket. This must be done in a
deck support units, sway for such cranes are high, sometimes controlled manner without causing
and surge fenders – make a running into several hundred thou- damage to either structure, even
valuable contribution to the sand dollars a day. The float-over though waves, currents or winds are
float-over method of installing the process provides a much less costly causing the barge to move.
topsides of offshore oil and gas plat- solution. But the crucial challenge, “The lmus – steel structures
forms from a barge. according to J.P. Chia, Engineering incorporating rubber elements –
Traditionally the topsides are lifted Manager at Trelleborg Singapore, is make this possible by dampening the
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