Vicinay Marine is qualified by DNV-GL Class Society for the manufacture of studlink and studless offshore mooring chains up to 150 mm diameter.
This high strength grade, with a minimum tensile strength of 1200 MPa, should be considered as a perfect solution for those offshore applications in which the mooring has shown to be risky, technologically challenging and capital intensive, such as deepwater exploration and production, wind power or locations where in-service metocean conditions could exceed the design ones.
The increased strength is in the interest of safety in those installations subjected to harsh environment and high loads, whereas the weight reduction for a given strength contributes to decreasing the payload of the vessel due to the moorings and provides easier handling, installation and reduced fuel consumption during shipping.