Linch-pin has a strong in-house structural team with the experience and capabilities to complete the most challenging projects, including in the following:

• Brownfields and Greenfields engineering
• Inspection and condition assessment
• Offshore structures (fixed and floating)
• Subsea structures
• Bespoke specialized equipment
• Installation aids
• Spreader bars and lifting frames
• Grillage and seafastening
• Installation vessel and barge capacity check
• Environmental loading
• Mooring systems
• Deployment systems
• Rigging design
• Temporary works

Linch-pin’s Structural Engineering project history can be found in our Projects Directory.

Linch-pin provides naval architectural consulting services covering analysis, specification or verification.

Our experience includes:

• Near shore marine infrastructure
• Equipment loadout
• Transportation stability and motions
• Vessel or barge strength, suitability and screening
• Floatover
• Jacket launch
• Offshore installation (hydrostatic and hydrodynamic analysis)
• Temporary and permanent mooring systems
• Tow and emergency tow systems
• J-Tube pull-in analysis
• Fixed and floating facility abandonment
• Marine operations

Linch-pin’s Naval Architecture project history can be found in our Projects Directory.

Linch-pin’s range of subsea engineering capability covers design and specification of permanent equipment and package management through delivery, installation and commissioning. We design and supply
subsea structures and temporary subsea equipment.

Our practical approach to the design of subsea structures places emphasis on simplicity of installation and operation.

Our experience includes:

• Flowlines
• Umbilical
• Cables
• Subsea controls
• Mooring systems
• Bespoke subsea hydraulic equipment
• Emergency Pipeline Repair Systems for up to 60” diameter pipelines
• In-line PLETs, PLEMs and Tees
• Large and small subsea manifolds
• Mid-depth buoys
• Complex riser replacement
• Complex umbilical failure issues
• Complex analysis of fibre optic cable installation

Linch-pin’s Subsea Engineering project history can be found in our Projects Directory.

Linch-pin has extensive experience with offshore installation planning and execution assisting clients with either contractor management or self-execution.

Our experience covers:

• Marine transport and installation of various fixed, floating and subsea structures
• Launched jackets, upended jackets, singe lift jackets
• Deep draft caisson vessels (spars)
• Complex drilled and grouted pile foundations
• Driven pile foundations
• Raft foundations
• Suction piles
• Gravity base
• Drag and gravity anchors
• Lifted module support frames, deck modules and integrated topsides
• Floatovers
• Flexible and rigid pipelines
• Umbilicals and cables
• Permanent and temporary mooring systems
• Subsea manifolds/PLETs/PLEMs
• Pre-commissioning (including pigging and hydrotesting)
• Hook-up
• Brownfields modifications
• Marine management

Linch-pin’s Installation Engineering project history can be found in our Projects Directory.

We combine robust capital stewardship, project management processes and systems with experienced and capable project management personnel to provide high value services

Linch-pin has proven experience in the management of engineering projects from early stage planning through to execution and handover to operations.

We align ourselves closely with our clients’ objectives and their needs by tailoring proven systems of work to their specific end state vision.

Our project management services include:

Concept Phase

• Concept development management
• Development options assessment on cost, schedule and risk basis
• Project mapping
• Preparation of Basis of Design

Define Phase

• Management of:
  - Field data gathering including metocean studies, geophysical and geotechnical investigations
  - Engineering studies to enhance development certainty and mitigate development risks

Development of:

• Project specific BoD and functional specifications
• Execution plans and associated contracting strategies
• Project organisation requirements and sourcing of personnel
• Project management systems and procedures

Execute Phase

• HSEQ management
• Engineering management
• Project services management
• Contracts and procurement management
• Interface, risk and stakeholder management
• Construction management
• Quality and HSE management

Linch-pin’s Project Management project history can be found in our Projects Directory.

Linch-pin has a depth of ‘hands-on’ experience in marine construction management utilising a range of construction vessels and barges.

Our experience is from early stage input through to offshore execution, hook-up and marine management for commissioning, campaign maintenance and planned shut-downs.

We have supported operators and contractors, and understand the differing perspectives and risks associated with executing complex projects safely to budget and schedule in challenging marine environments.

Our range of construction management services include:

Concept Phase

• Development of construction:
• Methodologies and schedules
• Budgets
• Concepts and risk mitigation measures

Define Phase

• Construction contracting strategies.
• Preparation of:
  - Construction specifications
  - Construction tenders
  - Bid evaluation and clarification, recommendations for award and contract negotiation

Execute Phase

• HSEQ management
• Regulatory submissions
• Installation design basis and detailed design input
• High level execution deliverables (plans, schedules, budgets)
• Installation procedure preparation
• Contractor and subcontractor management
• Progress analysis and reporting
• Development of specialty installation devices design
• Grillage, seafastening, rigging design
• Management of procurement and fabrication
• Tow and vessel management
• Resourcing site teams

Linch-pin’s Construction Management project history can be found in our Projects Directory.