Trelleborg, a provider of sealing solutions to the oil & gas industry, with branches in North and South America, recently announced that the firm’s offshore operation has secured a significant contract with a major shipyard. It will supply its fire protection technology, Firestop, to 17 I-Tubes for the Floating Productions Supply and Offloading (FPSO) vessel, Egina.
Firestop provides corrosion, thermal, fire and mechanical protection. Applications for Firestop include emergency shut-down (ESD) valve protection, rigid riser or tubular fire protection, flexible riser fire protection, escape way tunnel seal and protection of riser hang-off arrangements.
Firestop will enable the I-Tubes, additional riser pipes that allow pull-in of new production risers, cables and umbilicals, to withstand 120 minutes of jet-fire. The fire resistant material will be applied onsite in South Korea using Trelleborg’s Mobile Production Unit (MPU), a transportable coating facility.
Work on the Egina FPSO will start immediately and is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2016.