Chain Mooring System for Heerema Marine Contractors

Supporting the Ichthys LNG Project, offshore Northwest Australia, ACE Winches engineered, designed, manufactured and commissioned a 200 Tonne twin Chainlifter Hydraulic package. The chain winch package will be used to pull the heaviest chains ever installed by Heerema, with a diameter of 178mm. 
ACE Winches also manufactured two 50 Tonne WLL twin Chainlifter Hydraulic winches along with a 576kW Containerised Safe Area Electric Hydraulic Power Unit (HPU) and two 76kW Containerised Safe Area Electric HPU’s. All equipment was engineered and designed by ACE Winches’ dedicated engineering and projects team and manufactured at the company’s global headquarters in Northeast Aberdeenshire before being transported across the world for commissioning.  

Due to the complexity of the project, Heerema, in partnership with ACE Winches, evaluated different systems and developed safe and practical solutions. With the expertise of ACE Winches engineering team, the determined solution was to lay the chains on the barge then reel them off with the help of the chainlifter winch packages designed and manufactured to a very high and technical specification.