Planning and Engineering
PCCI was tasked to provide engineering, manufacturing, diver services, ship services, and logistics support to NAVFAC EXWC for installation and recovery of the Range Communications Instrumentation Platform (RCIP) buoy and moorings to be located offshore the Pacific Missile Range Facility.
PCCI’s engineers worked closely with EXWC engineers to prepare critical lift plans, cruise plans, dive plans, environmental protection plans, project execution plans, and safety plans to ensure installation and retrieval operations went smoothly.
Simultaneous Operations
In order to deploy the RCIP buoy and its mooring in the allowable installation window, PCCI conducted simultaneous operations. While the main buoy installation vessel was being mobilized, a second PCCI team conducted diver operations to drill and grout the mooring anchors and install the subsea buoys that were part of the Government furnished mooring system.
1980
Hours of Work
Sept 2016
Completion Date
12
Subcontractors Involved
$1,457,800
Budget
Mooring Installation
The mooring consisted of six anchor piles drilled and grouted into the seafloor, with a padeye attached to each pile to which the subsea anchor legs could be attached. After drilling and grouting, each padeye/pile combination was proof tested using salvage lift bags. After testing, submerged buoys were installed at each of the mooring leg locations, to which the buoy mooring lines would later be attached.
Buoy Installation and Recovery
The RCIP buoy riser cable was spliced into the submarine cable located near the project site, and the mooring legs were installed onto the submarine buoys. After two months of successful testing, the buoy and its mooring system were removed by PCCI for potential use at a future date.
