Case Studies

ACE 800te Linear Winch for Al Dabb’iya Surface facility

The 800te linear winch consists of two grippers; wire rope passes through the grippers that extend and retract for either pull-in or pay-out of wire rope. The gripper jaws are interchangeable to enable the unit to be used with different wire diameters.

Al Dabbi’iya Phase III is part of the ADCO…

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ACE 550te Linear Winch Package for Tuxpan Pipeline Project

The ACE 550te Linear Winch package performed the pull-out of the bundled pipeline, which was assembled onshore and fed into the shore crossing tunnel as the bundle is pulled from an offshore vessel, Quanta Iroquois.

The length of the shore crossing tunnel was 2,225m from the onshore entry point to…

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Linear Winch Package for Manifa Field Shore Pull-in project

Successfully completing the pipeline shore approaches works at KSA Manifa and Tanajib for Saipem, ACE Winches supplied an ACE 500te SWL Hydraulic Linear Winch Package and associated personnel.

The Manifa water injection system consisted of four main pipeline flanks. The injection system is…

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Linear Winch Package for CELSE Gas Pipeline project, Brazil

The ACE 500te Linear Winch package carried out the pull-in operations of a 18” natural gas pipeline running from the SSY base to shore, encompassing an offshore section of 6.5 km and a buried onshore section of 1.5 km long.

Sergipe Thermoelectric Power Plant is located in Barra dos Coqueiros and…

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ACE 500te Linear Winch Package for Stampede Project

The Linear Winch successfully installed eight steel catenary risers into dedicated hang-off porches for the tension leg platform pontoons.

The client required a minimum safe working load of 300mt suitable for a wire rope of 92mm diameter.

The Stampede project includes the development of the Pony…

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ACE Overboarding System package for Quad 204 Project

ACE Winches completed a scope of work as part of a subsea infrastructure project in the Loyal field, west of the Shetland Islands. Quad204 is the redevelopment of the Schiehallion and Loyal fields, located 175 km west of Shetland and 15 km north of the Foinaven field.

The complete project will…

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800te and 100te Linear Winch Packages for Johan Sverdrup Project

The ACE 800te Linear Winch package was used for the pull-in operations of a 36” oil export pipeline into Mongstad oil terminal through a 48” diameter 800m long borehole.

The Johan Sverdrup field is located in the Utsira High area in the North Sea, 155 kilometers west of Stavanger at water depths…

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Pull-In Winch Package for Stampede Development Project Umbilicals

ACE Winches was contracted to provide a Pull-In Winch Package, ACE Personnel and ACE Engineering for the Stampede Green Canyon Development Project situated in the Gulf of Mexico.

The ACE Pull-In Winch Package was required to pull in two umbilical’s to the Stampede Tension Leg Platform (TLP).…

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Shore Pull Package for Maheshkhali Floating LNG Terminal project

ACE Winches supplied the pull in spread equipment for the shore pull in of the gas pipelines for the Maheshkhali (Maiskhali) Floating LNG Terminal project, Bangladesh.

The pull in spread consisted of the ACE 500te Linear Winch, ACE Control Cabin, ACE Spooling Unit, ACE Equalising Sheave,…

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Our client required an overhaul of an A-Frame, Winch and HPU within a short timeframe to meet project schedules. 

The scope of work included a full inspection and re-engineer of the vertical support and lower pad-eye of the A-Frame. A full inspection was carried out on the winch, the brake units…

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