Tagged: Australia

Although our last report about Barrow Island, West Australia, was some time ago, work at the LNG facility has continued apace.

The site’s latest QuayQuip fender installation serves vessels calling at the Materials Offloading Facility (MOF). Due to the wide range of impact conditions – the berth serves a variety of heavy lift ships approaching either stern- or side-on – a slightly unconventional dual QCN Cone fender design was called for.

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When QuayQuip’s design engineers were asked to create Cone Fender systems for Berth 7 at Geraldton, West Australia, they were faced with an interesting challenge.

Berth 7 would be fitted with Cavotec mooring systems. The gap between units along the quay front was too cramped for conventional chain and anchor designs. The concrete shell design of the quay also meant that the ‘cone’ of shear forces must be begin far back into the finished structure: something that even the best conventional anchor systems could not achieve. A novel design was called for.

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In 2011, construction work began on a new coal port at Puerto Neuvo, in the Magdalena region of Colombia. The $60 million project has created a direct loading, multi-user coal port that should be fully operational by early 2013. Puerto Nuevo is expected to handle 30 million tonnes of low sulphur coal, rising to 40 million tonnes within a few years.

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QuayQuip recently upgraded the fender systems of Inner Harbour Berth 3 in Bunbury, West Australia.

The bulk woodchip berth was built in the mid-1970s. It operates on behalf of WAPRES (Western Australia Plantation Resources). Woodchip exports from Bunbury to Japan grew from just over a quarter of a million tonnes in 1976 to more than 1.5 million tonnes in 2011.

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QuayQuip has delivered another set of fender systems to the Barrow Island LNG facility in West Australia.

The centrepiece of the installation was a complete dolphin, preassembled in the factory for drop-in installation from the delivery vessel. The structure was equipped with two quad-cone (QCN1300) Parallel Motion fender systems, each rated to 3.2 megajoules.

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The last two years have been busy for QuayQuip at Cape Preston, West Australia. The Sino Iron project, CITIC Pacific’s huge new magnetite extraction and processing facility, has developed rapidly – QuayQuip are proud to have contributed fender systems and structures worth just over $2 million, across many of the berths in its new, purpose-built port.

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