Latest news:
- FoundOcean is awarded two jacket foundation grouting contracts with Saipem
- FoundOcean Appointed Licensed Applicator for BASF Exagrout Masterflow 9500®
- FoundOcean breaks a company record with 44 personal mobilised
- FoundOcean expands its subsea and offshore services with the introduction of Marine Growth Prevention and Control products
- FoundOcean completes the first of three grouting projects in the North Sea with Saipem
Milestones
FoundOcean boasts a long and eventful history with many industry firsts.
1966 Offshore Section of Wimpey Laboratories started
1966 Pile grouting of the first Middle East Offshore Platform in the Zakum Field
1973 Invention of the RJM Recirculating Jet Mixer
1974 Pile grouting of the first North Sea platform - BP Forties
1976 Industry 1st - Invention and installation of the Repair Clamp - BP West Sole
1976 Invention of Hardwire Grout Monitoring for the Thistle Platform
1978 Haemetite Ballasting of Britoil Thistle SALM
1980 First Fabric Formworks Pipeline Stabilisation project - Sharleham Point Outfall, UK
1983 First offshore Pipeline Stabilisation project - Iwaki pipeline Japan
1983 Grouting anchor templates on world's first deep water Tension Leg Platform - Conoco Hutton
1984 Invention of the ROV Grout Density Probe for Urika Platform
1984 Invention of the Scourmat
1985 Invention of the 'MassivMesh' Concrete Mattress - BP West Sole
1988 Invention of ROV Grout Connector for deployment of subsea grout lines - now industry standard
1991 Development of Heavy Weight Grouts for Total Bruce SSIS
1993 SeaMark Systems acquires Wimpey Laboratories
1994 Industry 1st - Underbase grouting on Jacket Suction Foundations - Statoil Euro Pipe Platform
1995 Development of silicate grout for Underbase Grouting of BP Harding gravity base structure
1996 Flooded Member Detection system developed from grout monitoring technology
1997 Largest fabric formwork project ever - 30,000 tons of grout to protect Haenam/Chesu, Korea
1998 Grouted connections on world's first deepwater 2 section platform - Amerada Hess Garden Banks
2003 Grouting the First Offshore UK Wind Farm - Arklow Bank, Ireland
2005 Grouted connections on world's first deepwater 3 section platform - Benguela Belize
2006 SeaMark Systems changes its name to FoundOcean
2006 FoundOcean Constructs full-size model of Gravity Base Platform for grout flow trials at its UK lab
2006 FoundOcean / IEV alliance is formed
2008 FoundOcean installs Fabric Formworks pipeline supports at a record depth of 1,224m
2008 150 Jacket Members Filled with high strength grout in a three-platform upgrade programme
2009 FoundOcean, IEV and Tamboritha form strategic alliance
2009 FoundOcean launches range of own-brand grouts
2009 FoundOcean passes 750 offshore projects completed
2009 FoundOcean undertakes a Tidal Turbine pilot project for TGL in the Pentland Firth
2010 FoundOcean starts grouting two key offshore wind farms: Ormonde and Walney
