At the Stord, Norway Manufacturing, Testing and R&D facility UNITECH offers:

• Control umbilical, Power umbilical, and advanced design umbilical.
• Flying leads tested according to ISO 13628-5 with terminations delivered on installation reels with client specific interfaces.
• We strive to provide the best design house in the world when it comes to umbilical with the primary goal of quantifiable cost savings during the pre-FEED and FEED phases of subsea development.
• Termination of UNITECH or third-party connectors, couplers, or assemblies.
• Fully tested systems.
• Short turnaround times.

Our facility comprises of:

• Vertical Bundling facility and extrusion line built in 2012.
• Flexible manufacturing configurations up to 18 tubes with second pass possibility.
• Siemens fully automated Control System for accurate control and logging – speed, back twist and lay length.
• Direct deepwater shipping access.
• Subsea production, gas lift, service and control lines.
• Complete production facility with own extrusion line for the outer sheet.
• Electrical and Fiber optic lines can be incorporated.

The UNITECH team includes experienced cable makers and design experts. All design work for HFLs and umbilical is available in-house using Umbilicad software. We work closely with Ultra Deep™ Engineering on VIV analysis, Crushing analysis (FEM) and Installation analysis.

The Stord facility includes comprehensive configuration and test facilities:

• Materials Test Centre
• Test pit for ROV simulation and submerged testing
• Direct deep-water shipping access
• Heavy duty lifting equipment
• Installation equipment.