Offshore Vessel Weighing Load Cells from Thames Side
An offshore weighing vessel is a platform used to weigh goods before transporting over seas. A method and a suitable arrangement for installation of a deck structure at an offshore location, where the deck structure is put on a vessel at a location inshore, then transported on the vessel to the offshore location and positioned relative to legs of a jacket or gravity base type support structure standing on the sea bottom, or the legs or columns of a floating substructure, the deck structure having deck legs corresponding to support legs on the support structure, the deck legs each being provided with a jack type of mechanism with an associated piston which is extended into contact with and supported by the top part of the corresponding support leg at the beginning of a procedure for transferring the weight of the deck structure from the vessel to the support legs.
Said procedure comprises ballasting the vessel while permitting wave induced motions of the vessel to further lift the deck structure with respect to the support structure and permitting the pistons to extend further below the respective deck legs when a higher wave is encountered. The pistons are prevented from moving into the respective deck legs during the weight transfer by mechanically locking the pistons in the legs by means of a one-way ratchet type mechanism.
Thames Side Sensors is a market leader in the design and manufacture of industrial Offshore Vessel Weighing Load Cells. We have developed a range of load cells specifically designed for the rigours of offshore applications such as in mud weighing systems.
Through a Global Alliance agreement with National Oilwell Varco in Norway, complete weighing systems, incorporating Thames Side Sensors VC3500 loadcells are exclusively available.
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