“Each joint was forged from a single billet of material with no joining welds, which makes the riser stronger than traditional systems. The riser’s fatigue life far exceeds the duration of the drilling phase of this project,” said Owen Lewis, project engineer, Claxton.
Claxton secured the three-and-a-half-year contract in 2014 and began mobilisation in late July 2015.
The company provided the subsea connector to latch the riser with the subsea wellhead, riser tensioning interface from the riser to the rig’s tension system, all riser handling tools, and custom-designed bolt tensioners to facilitate flange make-up.
