Marlow Ropes News

Bridon, a manufacturer of steel wire and wire ropes, has completed the acquisition of the Offshore and Commercial Marine related assets of Marlow Ropes. This acquisition further enhances the Bridon product range enabling the company to offer complementary fiber rope solutions in addition to its existing product range. Bridon is part of the Lifting Products and Services Division of FKI plc, a major international engineering group.

Aker Marine Contractors (AMC) of Houston and Marlow Ropes have successfully executed a deep water test to demonstrate and prove the use of new mooring components for ultra-deepwater station keeping applications for mobile offshore drilling units. It is expected this technology will permit drilling units to be moored in as much as 10,000 ft. of water using similar components. The test involved the successful installation of AMC's new Suction Embedded Plate Anchor (SEPLA) and Marlow's torque-matched polyester rope by AMC and Vastar at Vastar's Mississippi Canyon Block 126, Horn Mountain Prospect in 5,300 ft. of water. The SEPLA and polyester rope section were deployed from AMC's new state-of-the-art anchor handling construction vessel Cal Dive Aker Dove…