Protea - Material Handling Equipment Inspections, Expediting and Production

Protea delivers material handling equipment and systems for offshore, marine and onshore markets. Protea also provides inspections, expediting, production supervision and engineering services. We serve as one of Aker Solutions' HUB.

CRANE DELIVERY

Protea delivers many types of cranes for offshore installations. Offshore pedestal cranes are the most important means of transport of materials between any offshore installation and a supply vessel. We also deliver overhead travelling cranes, gantry cranes, deck cranes and derricks for any offshore applications.

Our offshore pedestal cranes can be diesel hydraulic cranes or electro hydraulic cranes. They can be delivered with box boom, lattice boom, telescopic boom or knuckle boom. BOP cranes are used for transport of Blow-out Preventers and Christmas tree cranes are used for transport of X-trees.

DELIVERY OF WINCHES

A range of specially designed winches are delivered by Protea. Among them there are anchor handling winches, riser pulling winches, abandon and recovery winches, constant tension winches, launching winches, man riding winches, deck winches, chain winches, tugger winches and traction winches.

These can be delivered with spooling device or level winder. Winches are delivered fully tested and often with hydraulic power pack, Hydraulic Power Unit (HPU) or electric power unit.

The company has recently acquired several orders for the delivery of series of winches for heavy lift floating offshore cranes. The series includes boom hoist winches, main hoist winches, auxiliary hoist winches, whip hoist winches and tugger winches. The winches are either of hydraulic or electric type. The winches' drives are of modularised type.

Protea has also won several orders for anchor/mooring winches for PDVSA in Venezuela. This should be a new and opening market for Protea. The winches are of double-drum type with spooling devices, and are electrically driven with advanced control and monitoring systems. They are of different sizes and will be used on several oil barges.

BOP GANTRY CRANES

Protea delivers a series of BOP gantry cranes of SWL 550t with a BOP guide system at the moment. The weight of one of those cranes is approximately 170t. The first crane of the series has been successfully tested in Singapore on the new semi-submersible drilling rig, Seadrill 8. We are already building the second and third crane in our new facility.

RELATED MATERIAL HANDLING EQUIPMENT

Protea also delivers A-frames, trolleys, rails and bogies, capstans, powered sheaves, powered trolleys, rail trolleys, hose reels, pipe reels and umbilical reels.

OFFSHORE STEEL STRUCTURES AND MACHINE ELEMENTS

Protea delivers directly from own manufacturing facility offshore steel structures, offshore containers manufactured and equipped according to the customers' documentation or own design.

INSPECTIONS AND EXPEDITING

Protea provides a comprehensive range of quality-related services like inspections and production supervision. We also carry out audits of manufacturing companies.

Protea performs inspections in Poland:

• Steel structures
• Paintings and coatings
• Welding
• Electrical / instrumentation equipment
• Mechanical equipment

Since 2003 Protea serves as a sourcing HUB for Aker Solutions group in Poland. Protea inspectors join project teams to permanently support quality assurance on production sites.

NEW FACILITY

Protea has its own modern fabrication plant in Poland with capacity of over 1,000t/year of machine and steel structures. We have become a high quality manufacturer in Poland with work costs significantly lower than in Western European countries. We are actively seeking orders from domestic and foreign markets.