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Riser/Conductor Protection Nets

TTI is the World's leading authority on the Design and Specification of Riser and Conductor Protection Net Systems.

As an acknowledged leader in the technology of synthetic fibre ropes, TTI offer independent advice, specification and design services for all types of marine applications.

Riser Protection Nets (RPNs) are sometimes necessary to protect vulnerable risers from impact by an errant supply boat. Similarly, Conductor Protection Nets (CPNs) provide protection for vulnerable conductors.

Only fibre ropes have the properties that allow RPNs/CPNs to be successfully engineered, Elastic Modulus being the key property. This allows a net to be designed so that the energy of an impact can be absorbed (through conversion to strain energy) within the strength capability of the ropes.

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TTI has designed some of the largest impact capacity nets in the World with impact requirements in excess of 20MJ and with design life out to 40 years.

Our rigorous design approach ensures net functionality through the life cycle with minimum maintenance and inspection requirements working in the harshest offshore environments

RPN/CPNs have been deployed on seventeen major TLP, FPS and jacket projects to date of which only the first two of these systems were not designed by TTI.

More recently the Snorre and Heidrun TLPs in Norway have had TTI designed replacement nets installed some 20 years after the original nets were installed.

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Riser / Conductor Protection Net Systems

Offshore Facility

Hutton TLP (Conoco)

SNORRE FPS (Saga)

Auger TLP (Shell)

Heidrun TLP (Conoco)

Asgard B FPS (Statoil)

MODEC Prince Mini TLP

MODEC Marco Polo Mini TLP

AIOC PDQ Jacket - Caspian Sea

NADL - West Alpha - Ice Protection Net

Total Moho Nord TLP (West Africa)

Ichthys CPF - Inpex (Australia)

Heidrun TLP Upgrades (Equinor)

Snorre FPS Upgrades (Equinor)

Installation Date

1984

1991

1993

1995

2000

2001

2002

2004-2019

2014

2014

2017

2022-25

2019-25

Material

Polyester

Nylon

Polyester

Polyester

Polyester

HMPE

HMPE

HM Twaron - Polyester

Polyester

Polyester

HM Polyester PEN / Polyester

Polyester

Nylon - Polyester

Main Span Rope MBL

200 tonnes

200 tonnes

360 tonnes

400 tonnes

600 tonnes

218 tonnes

240 tonnes

425 tonnes

11.2 tonnes

37 tonnes

870 tonnes

350 tonnes

350 tonnes