Parkburn Precision Handling Systems - Offshore and Naval Back Deck Deployment and Retrieval Equipment

Parkburn Precision Handling Systems Ltd (PPHS) is a privately-owned UK engineering company, which designs and manufactures specialist back deck marine handling systems and equipment and state-of-the-art drives and controls packages.

Parkburn provides the client a complete in-house service, encompassing all project prerequisites to design, manufacture, FAT, install, commission, certify and support equipment; ranging from simple winches through to fully-synchronised deck spreads of back deck equipment.

The Parkburn design and manufacture capability meets all required class requirements across mechanical, electrical (software and hardware) and hydraulic disciplines, utilising AutoCAD and Inventor 3D design and modelling facilities.

Parkburn is an ISO9001: 2008 registered company supplying engineered systems and equipment to a worldwide customer base since 1968.

Subsea cable, pipe and flexibles handling systems

Parkburn designs, manufactures and supports systems and equipment used to deploy and retrieve subsea telecom, HV and seismic cable, pipe, flexibles and umbilicals from a range of marine platforms. Parkburn produces quality, rugged and reliable equipment designed for fast, simple mobilisation (plug and play), ease-of-operation and low-maintenance.

Systems and equipment designed and manufactured include:

• Carousels / turntables
• Two and three track tensioners
• Loading arms / manipulator arms / static tank loading arms
• Linear cable engines (LCE)
• Capstan drum engines (CDE)
• Draw off hold back engines (DOHB)
• Cable transporters / haulers
• Streamer and OBC reels and equipment
• Overboarding systems

Dive support vessel bell handling systems

Parkburn designs and manufactures dive bell handling systems specific to the client requirement and to the highest standards of quality and reliability. Using state-of-the-art design tools in conjunction with PPHS-proven production engineering and manufacturing techniques and our market leading drives and controls facilities, PPHS provides a truly turnkey system supply service.

Meeting all class, technical, mechanical, electronic, hydraulic and software certification requirements, whilst providing the client extensive interface knowledge and experience, PPHS is growing its reputation as one of the markets most reliable dive bell handling system suppliers.

Parkburn systems and equipment used to deploy and recover dive bell systems typically include:

• Dive bell lift and umbilical winches
• Guide wire and clump weight winches
• Hydraulic and electrical heave compensation systems
• Bell handling trolleys & cursor assemblies
• Bell docking assemblies and wire / umbilical sheave
• Sheave shock absorbers and clump weights

Deep-water, heavy payload, fibre rope winch handling systems

Exploration and subsequent oil and gas production in the ever deeper subsea environment has created a market requirement for cost-effective means of deploying deepwater structures and tools to the seabed.

Modern fibre ropes, which exhibit near to zero weight in water, lend themselves to the deployment of heavy subsea packages, but give rise to special handling considerations. Parkburn has researched many different technologies and fibre rope handling techniques resulting in Parkburn commencing manufacture of an 85Te SWL winch system.

Parkburn has over 40 years experience designing and manufacturing deepwater handling systems. From standard speed controlled deployment and recovery winches through soft landing heavy duty capstan winches and closed loop tension control traction winches, Parkburn offers it's clients the full range of technology to satisfy their requirement.

Drives and control systems

Parkburn also provides a complete turnkey service for all your electronic drives, motors and controls requirements. The specialist drives and controls division located in Hamilton, Scotland, has been a manufacturer and integrator in the offshore, marine and naval handling system markets for over 25 years, in addition to numerous industrial market sectors which include process and machine control, data acquisition, information management and material handling control systems.

Parkburn drives and controls packages typically include the following design protocols, programmes and features:

• Closed loop / open loop electric vector drive technology
• SCADA, MES, BATCH ERP, Intelligent MCC, PLC
• local and remote consoles and panels
• radio controls, regenerative and resistor energy dissipation systems
• synchronisation features
• 3rd party equipment interface capability.