Bardex Mooring Tensioning System Installed in GOM

April 28, 2022

Photo credit BP/Yesenia Rodriguez
Photo credit BP/Yesenia Rodriguez

BP’s latest floating production facility, ARGOS, has been successfully moored in the US Gulf of Mexico. The mooring tensioning system includes Bardex Corporation Chain Jacks used to haul in and tighten 12 lines of 171mm R4S top chain. Bardex mooring chain jacks were the first to be used for deep water floating production units since the early 1990s.

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