Trelleborg supplied the bearing structures for Catcher FPSO

Trelleborg’s engineered products operation recently completed a milestone project for BW Offshore for the complete in-house design and fabrication of Floating Production, Storage and Offloading elastomeric bearing structures. Supplied to Premier Oil’s Catcher FPSO in 2016, this marks the first time the company’s Singapore facility has not only provided elastomeric bearings, but designed and manufactured the entire steel fabricated elastomer bearing system.
Located 180 kilometres east of Aberdeen in the North Sea, the Catcher project, which is scheduled to deliver its first oil in 2017, includes the development of three main oil and gas fields, Catcher, Varadero and Burgman, tied back to an FPSO vessel supplied by BW Offshore. The FPSO will have a processing capacity of 60,000 barrels of oil per day and a storage capacity of 650,000 oil barrels.
In addition to designing and fabricating the FPSO elastomeric bearing structure, Trelleborg also supplied 20 fixed type bearing systems, 20 sliding type bearing systems and 20 free type bearing systems. This supports and protects processing modules on the vessel from impact, damage and deformation arising from adverse sea and weather conditions.