First Subsea is a UK-based supplier of subsea connection systems and mooring systems for deepwater platforms, Floating Production, Storage and Offloading vessels (FPSOs), subsea field buoy, pipeline and turret architectures and marine energy.
IDAC executed the Mandrel-Receptacle mooring line connector’s structural response test by carrying out fatigue responses of the connector as per the DNV standards document, DNV-RP-203.
The two companies have worked together on numerous projects covering a wide range of designs and load cases.
The use of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) allows First Subsea to not only optimize the designs, but also to prove the load carrying capacity and fatigue life. FEA results have been confirmed by in-house physical testing of the connectors.
