Manuplas® successfully design and manufacture modular buoyancy modules

Our marine team successfully designed and manufactured a set of modular buoyancy modules for our customer, a leading provider of floating production solutions to the offshore energy industry. The customer approached us, requiring subsea buoyancy modules that could be used as supports for pipeline repair and compatible with an offshore repair vessel with lifting equipment.

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The highlights

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Our marine team designed a solution which comprised of 48 strings of buoyancy modules (288 individual units).

Efficient

We achieved our customers time frame by utilizing our in-house equipment and providing regular communication.

Smart design

This ensured that the modules could be packaged/transported easily and economically.

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Our solution

Our marine team designed a solution which comprised of 48 strings of buoyancy modules (288 individual units). Each string was constructed from six moulded polyethylene shells filled with PU foam and assembled on a steel fabrication, each providing 3.9 tonne of buoyancy and rated to 350m msw.

The buoyancy module strings feature a mooring/lifting eye at each end, where they will be attached vertically from a pipeline to provide support to a length of subsea pipeline whilst it is being repaired.

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The results

We achieved our customers time frame by utilizing our in-house equipment, providing regular communication and implementing a smart design idea.

This meant the modules could be packaged/transported easily and economically. These initiatives allowed us to meet the short lead time of ten weeks from placement of order to completion.

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