Renewables & Nearshore Moorings

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Renewables and Nearshore Moorings

Innovative Mooring Solutions for Ocean Renewables & Nearshore Applications

Moorsure has extensive experience in designing and supplying moorings for nearshore applications, from wave energy technology demonstrators to novel challenges. Nearshore moorings are crucial in offshore operations, securing support vessels during cyclones and stabilising navigation aids. These environments demand specialised engineering to ensure safety, efficiency, and long-term reliability. At Moorsure, our tailored designs optimise installation, operation, and maintenance, reducing risks and improving efficiency.

Our Offerings

  • Optimized Mooring & Foundations

    From cyclone moorings for support vessels to navigation light and buoy marker installations, we focus on enhancing energy efficiency and reducing equipment fatigue in nearshore applications and ocean renewables.

  • Analyze Complex Marine Dynamics

    Covering a wide range of hull forms, including - Tanker-based FSO/FPSO systems Spar, Semi-Submersible, TLP, and Barges CALM buoys and flexible riser systems.

  • Design and Test Mooring & Riser Systems

    Using advanced modeling for spread and disconnectable mooring systems chain, wire rope, and synthetic rope mooring solutions at varying water depths and environmental conditions.

  • Leverage Model Testing Capabilities

    Ensuring all designs meet real-world performance expectations before deployment.

  • Specialist Suppliers

    Partnering with specialist suppliers to create high-quality trial units with integrated telemetry at competitive rates.

  • End-to-End Project Management

    Provide end-to-end project management, including vessel sourcing, tender evaluation, installation oversight, and as-built data documentation.

  • Inspection & Maintenance

    Developing inspection and maintenance regimes with fatigue analysis, ensuring cost-effective, planned maintenance and storm impact assessments.

Wave Energy Devices

One of the key elements of mooring wave energy devices is designing a mooring system that does not adversely effect, nor subject itself to high loads, due to the nature of mooring a device that extracts energy from the waves. Moorsure designs and supplys moorings for wave energy devices, with a pragmatic view on design criteria for demonstration projects through to understanding the economies of scale for multiple units.  

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Refuge and Cyclone Moorings

Moorsure’s foundational experience in the moorings sector comes from the design and supply of refuge/cyclone moorings. Designed to withstand both the strong winds and the associated wave conditions in nearshore locations, these moorings are designed to offer the greatest compliance possible combining both chain and synthetic rope technology. 

Floating Wind

Moorsure also has an eye on the floating wind sector. Our services include: 

Temporary moorings for the installation campaign or main component repairs

Support moorings for cables during disconnected conditions

Mooring integrity management and production surveillance

New technology development to improve quality or increased production efficiency

Development of shared anchoring and share mooring technologies

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Active Members of World Forum for Offshore Wind

We have active members of the WFO including the Chair of the Cables and Floating Substations Sub-Committee.

Mooring Research Projects for the Carbon Trust

Moorings System Redundancy, Reliability and Integrity (MRR&I)
Maximum Operating Sea-State Evaluation (MOSE)
Commercial Scale Mooring Integrity Monitoring (CMIM)

Floating Wind Condition & Integrity Monitoring

Ozea is a holistic offshore and floating wind condition & integrity monitoring in commercial-scale wind farms.

Novel, New and Niche Moorings

The requirement for keeping a floating vessel or structure in position may not fall into the several categories of moorings that Moorsure and others supply. Due to our nimble size but coupled with the depth of our partners, we can design and supply moorings for any other challenging environment such as:

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Solar

Floating
Tidal

New Aquaculture
Concepts

Floating Terminals & Temporary Barge Solutions

Fish farm in Kalymnos, Greece

Secure & Optimize Your Operations with Moorsure

With Moorsure’s expertise, your renewables and nearshore mooring systems are engineered for maximum safety, durability, and operational efficiency in even the most demanding marine environments.

Speak directly with our engineers to explore how Moorsure can address your specific needs.

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CBMs and MBMs

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Conventional and Multi-buoy Moorings

Moorsure has significant experience in the design, supply and installation of Conventional Buoy Moorings (CBMs) and Multi-Buoy Moorings (MBMs). The Moorsure family of CBM/MBM designs allows for our specialised engineering team to select a cost-effective solution to your requirements.

Moorsure applies best practise OCIMF guidelines to the design, supply and ongoing maintenance of CBM and MBM systems. The differentiators of the Moorsure CBM/MBM systems are:

– A Tier One quality engineered, supplied and installation mooring system without the requirement and cost for a Tier One installation contractor to install the moorings, and

– As the solutions have already been preliminary engineered, it is only the customisation to the location that needs to be undertaken before manufacturing commences.

 

The completeness of the CBM system can be tailored to the requirements of the location, with equipment such as:

– Buoy Design (Catamaran or Cylindrical depending on location)

– Manual or Automatic quick release hooks

– Hoses

– Breakaway couplings

– PLEM autonomous shutdown valve technology

– Comprehensive terminal monitoring and management system.

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Offspring International expands mooring chain capability

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Offspring International expands mooring chain capability

Offspring International (OIL) has extended its range of chain to offer larger offshore grade chain and full project management services for offshore mooring systems. Offshore mooring projects previously handled by OIL’s sister company, Sanmar Chain, will now be managed by Offspring International.

Offspring customers will experience the same high level of service with OIL continuing to work closely with clients to consider the overall project picture, rather than the scope of chain supply in isolation. Offspring achieve this by incorporating the highest project management skills and overseeing manufacturing standards throughout the entire project process, from contract review, through manufacturing to testing, inspection, certification, final dispatch and documentation.

Sales and marketing director for OIL, Mark Brooks, comments “Combining the resources of Offspring International and Sanmar Chain will serve customer’s projects more effectively. OIL has over 25 years of offshore mooring experience and a proven track record; working with Sanmar’s existing team in China will ensure continued success”.

 

Offshore Chain

Offspring International offers stud link and studless mooring chains up to and including 187mm diameter in all offshore grades: R3, R3S, R4, R4S, and R5. Offspring staff have experience in managing chain projects including Spar platforms, CALM buoys, MODUs, and all mooring configurations for FPSOs, FSOs, FPUs etc.

Sanmar Chain International had a successful track record in supplying chain to offshore projects in the Gulf of Mexico, South America, West Africa, South East Asia, Australia, Europe, Middle East, India and the Mediterranean.

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Prof. Andrew E. Potts now a Fellow of ATSE

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Prof. Andrew E. Potts now a Fellow of ATSE

In a media release yesterday, it was announced that AMOG’s CEO, Professor Andrew Potts was elected by the Academy as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE).

ATSE is an independent body of 800 eminent Australian scientists and engineers enhancing Australia’s prosperity through technology and innovation. Each year, the Academy seeks to elect Fellows from a wide array of sectors and specialisations. Fellows include key business leaders and academics, prominent commercial innovators, professional and business leaders, and respected public sector figures.

Professor Potts will be formally inducted into the Academy in a private ceremony later this year and the the team at AMOG would like to extend their congratulations.

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Mooring Integrity Management

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Mooring Integrity Management

With increased regulation surrounding the requirements for Safety arguments to be presented for mooring systems, competent, detailed analysis has become increasingly important. 

Moorsure can provide functional and performance based safety assessments as part of the mooring analysis, to the level of detail required by regulators. Our System Safety Engineers have experience in delivering detailed safety assessments, are well recognised as experts in the field, and have been accredited across a number of regulating bodies.

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Mooring System Safety

System Safety involves the design of systems which are both safe and fit for purpose. As a discipline, system safety focuses on identifying potential mishaps associated with a system(s) and either eliminating them, or reducing their risk to a level that is acceptable.

Typically this risk reduction is achieved through the elimination of hazards, or the implementation of preventative or mitigative control measures. 

Moorsure can offer a range of specialist services, including:

Mooring System Analysis within the System Safety Discipline:

– Safety Program Scoping, Planning and Mooring Integrity Management

Mooring System Safety Analysis:

– Hazard Identification:

– Structured What If Technique (SWIFT)

– Hazard & Operability (HazOp) Studies

– Mooring Integrity Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA)

– Fault and Event Tree Modelling

– Computational Fluid Dynamics Consequence Modelling (Fire, Blast, Impact & Penetration, Smoke, Toxic Species, Oil Spill)

– Quantification of Health EffectsMooring System Functional Safety and Safe System Design

– Codification of Safety Processes and Procedures Independent Review and Audit

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Inspection & Maintenance

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Inspection & Maintenance

Carefully designed and managed Inspection and Maintenance routines are essential to the longevity of any marine infrastructure. While Moorsure’s design team will optimise your solution to meet cost, fatigue, operational and environmental constraints, there will always be a requirement – whether imposed by regulators or as part of best practice infrastructure management – to conduct inspections on key structural and safety elements and to perform the appropriate preventative and corrective maintenance when necessary.

Moorsure’s Engineering team are world leaders in Mooring Integrity Management, with substantial contributions to API-RP-2MIM.

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Installation Management

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Installation Management

Moorsure can arrange and oversee all your installation requirements. Our team can conduct the necessary installation engineering for your mooring and prepare the appropriate procedures and drawings. We ensure that the installation is carried out in accordance with appropriate standards and that records are captured for inclusion in the final design pack.

For more novel installations, Moorsure’s Engineers have vast experience in the design, analysis and supervision of complex installation operations. Through detailed engineering, risks can be mitigated and wait-on-weather, and hence cost, minimised.

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Supply & Delivery

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SUPPLY AND DELIVERY

Our supply team has established relationships with some of the world’s largest chain, wire, synthetic rope and mooring component manufacturers. These relationships allow us to provide competitive rates for the supply of your mooring equipment, whatever the application. Our mooring equipment is manufactured to the appropriate technical standards under accredited quality systems, utilizing the latest industry techniques and the best available raw materials. Products can be provided with class certification and included warranties. Our extensive experience in component supply, logistics and transport allows Moorsure to deliver mooring components all over the world.

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Design & Analysis

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DESIGN AND ANALYSIS​

Our engineers have extensive experience in the design and analysis of specialist mooring systems. With access to state of the art software and the latest analytical techniques, our team can bring your concept to life and optimise the solution to meet the requirements of your unique circumstances. Moorsure has a wealth of experience designing to ABS, BV and DNV codes, as well as to regional specific codes. Moorsure remains at the fore-front of mooring design, utilising reliability based approaches for mooring design, refurbishment and life extension.

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