Project Experience

With over 33 years of experience across a diverse range of marine and offshore mooring projects, Harbour Marine Engineering has a strong understanding of client requirements. Mechanical and instrumentation disciplines work together to engineer products that perform beyond expectation. From hazardous or non-hazardous zoning to complex integrated systems or stand-alone mooring equipment, Harbour Marine can assist in the development of your next mooring project.

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Project Briefs
- UPGRADE
  - Customised design meets operational needs at Phillips Rodeo Refinery, California
- OIL INDUSTRY
  - Shoaiba Desalination Plant, Saudi Arabia
  - Vessel Docking Aid System, USA
- POWER STATION
  - Coal Offloading Jetty Upgrade, Hong Kong
- OFFSHORE
  - FPSO Nan Hai Fen Jin, China
  - Legendre Field, Western Australia
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Project Briefs

UPGRADE: Customised design meets operational needs at Phillips Rodeo Refinery, California As one of the largest oil refinery operators in the San Francisco Bay, Phillips 66 receives crude oil tankers ranging in length from 150-270 metres (400-800 ft). A major decision to install state-of-the-art vessel docking aid, load monitoring and quick release hook mooring systems on two berths was made at the early design stage which enabled Harbour Marine to tailor the mechanical mooring and instrumentation systems to the needs of their engineers and jetty operators. Highlights of this major upgrade include: 60T capacity Quick Release Hooks with capstans incorporate electrical remote release and a load cells, linking to a centralised monitoring system. Load Monitoring and remote release share SmartHook® digital communication cabling. Audio/visual warning lights and sirens have been installed for each unit. A SmartDock® Docking Aid System (DAS), integrated to the central computer system and complete with a large Display Board equipped with rotating pedestal was located on each jetty. A dedicated console located within the central control room provides the status and individual and/or simultaneous hook release. Additional mooring equipment has recently (2005) been added to enable polar class vessels to berth at the facility. Measuring 280M LOA, these vessel berth over 2 dock lengths and required extra quick release hooks, with integration of docking, load monitoring and remote release systems with the existing equipment. Top
OIL: Shoaiba Desalination Plant, Saudi Arabia Harbour Marine supplied Quick Release Hooks with capstans, a centralized load monitoring system incorporating hydraulic remote release for installation at this new facility. Load Monitoring and remote release share SmartHook® digital communications cabling. A SmartDock® Docking Aid System, complete with large display board, mounted on the roof of the control room, was also supplied and integrated to the central computer system. The hooks comprise four sets of double and four sets of triple 100T quick release hooks. Dedicated hydraulic power packs are installed at each unit for remote release and control is via digital communications on the same RS485 cable as the SmartHook® Load Monitoring. A dedicated console, located within central control room with clear sight of the jetty provides hook status and individual hook release. The central workstation PC includes the integrated DAS and Load Monitoring Software. Top
OIL: Vessel Docking Aid System, USA Harbour Marine was awarded design, supply and commissioning of a Docking Aid System for safe berthing of vessels at an oil jetty located at Corpus Christi. Utilizing our SmartDock® modular DAS technology, the system comprised 2 laser sensors, rack mounted jetty controller and transmitter, PC Workstation and portable handheld monitors to display vessel speed of approach, distance and angle relative to the jetty. Top
POWER STATION: Coal Offloading Jetty Upgrade, Hong Kong Harbour Marine was awarded a contract for the design, supply and commissioning of quick release hooks and SmartHook® load monitoring, including emergency alarms at Hong Kong Electric Company's Lamma Island power station facility. The hook bases were custom designed to replace existing bollards on 2 berths. A SmartDock® Docking Aid System was also awarded to Harbour Marine as part of the scope. See our article on "Upgrading Existing Mooring Facilities" Top
OFFSHORE: FPSO Nan Hai Fen Jin, China Rolls Royce awarded a contract to HME for supply of a quick release Chain Stopper for the 151,000dwt FPSO Nan Hai Fen Jin, now working on the Wenchang field in the South China Sea. The vessel was completed at the Dalian New Shipyard for China National Offshore Oil Company. The 200 Tonne capacity Chain Stopper, located at the stern of the vessel for tandem offloading operations, includes load monitoring with local and CCR display, electro hydraulic remote release and deck alarm. Top
OFFSHORE: Legendre Field, Western Australia Habour Marine was awarded two separate contracts for the mooring system for the Legendre Field Development. The initial contract, awarded by Bluewater Engineering B.V. following successful audit of HME's ISO9001 quality system, was to provide all of the instrumentation and associated mooring system installed on the CALM buoy. The second contract, awarded by Teekay Shipping Canada Ltd, was for supply of the mooring system for the dedicated FSO tanker, Karratha Spirit, that is moored to the CALM buoy. Read full story: "Mooring System for the Legendre Field" (100KB pdf)