Late last year, the driven-pile anchors for Murphy Oil's Kikeh spar, now stationed 120km off the coast of eastern Malaysia, were installed by Technip using an underwater hammer provided by one of the longest-established engineering companies in the offshore industry, Germany's Menck. Actually, as Bill Clewes reports, Technip's choice of equipment was reasonably straightforward, as Hamburg-based Menck remains the only company supplying hammer systems capable of being used routinely at depths like those found in the Kikeh field - in excess of 1300m.
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