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52 Tube ProducTs InTernaTIonal March 2016
Tube handl ing & logist ics
Contract for two 500-tonne
under-rollers
Sparrows Group, and its cable and
pipe-lay solutions (CPLS) division,
reinforced its footprint in the USA
after being awarded a contract by
Oceaneering International, Inc, a global
provider of engineered services and
products to the offshore oil and gas
industry, to design and manufacture
two 500-tonne powered and jack-able
under-rollers.
The new under-roller system, through
its versatility and mobility, offers a wide
range of benefits. Suitable for use with
reels of up to 11.4m outer diameter, it
provides up to ten tonnes of line pull
at the outer reel diameter, which is
particularly beneficial for steel-tubed
umbilicals – a more rigid product that
requires greater effort to spool around
the reel.
Key to Sparrows Group securing the
contract was the company’s in-house
engineering expertise and facilities in
Aberdeen, UK, where the under-rollers
are to be designed and manufactured
before undergoing testing. The
under-rollers will then be delivered
to Oceaneering in Panama City,
Florida, USA, where Sparrows Group
will perform the assembly and site
acceptance testing. Local after-care
support for the under-rollers will be
supplied by Sparrows Group’s service
centre in Slidell, Louisiana, where the
company has a number of specialist
technicians with the capability
to maintain and repair this type of
equipment.
Sparrows Group CEO Stewart Mitchell
commented, “This contract award
marks a significant milestone for
Sparrows Group in that not only are
the under-rollers believed to be the
first of the design and capacity in
the marketplace but it underlines the
added value we bring through our
integrated services, responsiveness
and after-care support.”
The complete under-roller unit, when
attached to a set of cradles, can be
lifted via four lifting points. With packing
structures for differing reel diameters
the system can be used for different
reel cradles. This enables the unit to be
versatile in terms of the reel dimensions
it can be used with.
sparrows Group – UK
oceaneering International, Inc – USA
Sparrows Group’s under-roller is believed
to be the first of its design and capacity
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