ACE Linear Winch

Contents
1. The global solution provider Page 3

2. ACE capabilities Page 4

3. Major company achievements Page 5

4. Linear winch overview Page 6

5. ACE Winches - Linear winch track record Page 7

6. Testimonial Page 12
ACE Winches - The global solution provider

ACE Winches is a global leader in the design, manufacture and hire of winches, marine deck machinery and the
provision of associated hire personnel for the offshore oil and gas, marine and renewable energy industries.

ACE Winches is the expert partner to manage the total project solution from concept design through to
manufacture, testing, installation, commissioning, operation, training and ongoing client support.

Operating in over 50 countries ACE Winches specialise in reliable, safe solutions that deliver.

ACE test bed services

The size and capacity of the test facilities enables ACE
Winches to replicate back-deck layout to full test
package to clients’ specific requirements.

Within the facility, there are 200te test bed and

400te test bed indoors which incorporates spooling
operations for all umbilical and wire rope testing.
Outside there is further test bed capable of testing
up to 800te dynamic load and 1000te brake and pull
test, complete with a 150te test tower for simulating
operations offsite

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ACE capabilities

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ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING HIRE EQUIPMENT
Mechanical Engineering Catalogue Products Drum Winches Division
Hydraulic Engineering Bespoke Products Spooling Division
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Drives, Systems and Controls Special Projects
Drawing Office RDS Division
Research and Development Linear Winch Division

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HIRE PERSONNEL SERVICES WINCH ACADEMY
Survey Engineers Wire Spooling Technicians Deck Machinery Rebuild Internal Training
Commissioning Engineers Hose Reel Operators
Global Service Contracts External Training
Hydraulic, Mechanical and Structural Design Engineers
Electrical Engineers Merchanting Client Training
Applications Consultants
Winch Operating Project Management Bespoke Training
Technicians Supervisors

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Major company achievements
Year Client Project Work Scope

ACE Winches manufactured a 800te Linear Winch to

Al Dabbia Project
2017 Archirodon Archirodon for use in land based shore pulls and offshore
(part owned by BP)
wire rope deployment and recovery operations.

ACE Winches designed, engineered, manufactured and com-

Statoil Troll B 2015 missioned a complete rental Pull in Winch System including
2017 & 2015 Statoil
SLMP Wire Rope and HPU for their Subsea Line Modification
Project based on the Troll B Platform offshore Norway.

ACE Winches provided Technip a 150te cantilever

BP Quad 204 framework and winching system located over the side of
2016 TechnipFMC
Glen Lyon FPSO their vessels to enable safe transfer of the flexible risers
from Technip vessels to the Glen Lyon

ACE Winches designed, engineered and

Heerema Marine
2016 HESS Stampede manufactured a 500te Linear Winch for Heerema to pull-in
Contractors
8 steel catenary risers (SCRs)

ACE Winches was commissioned to design, manufacture and

Heerema Marine
2015 Ichthys Project deliver three chain winch packages for Dutch company,
Contractors
Heerema for the installation of FPSO mooring chains.

ACE Winches designed, engineered and manufactured an

electrically driven 8-point mooring spread. The package was
2012 Superior Shell, Arctic Challenger
designed to be capable of operating in temperatures as low
as -45 degrees C

ACE Winches was commissioned in June 2011 to

manufacture a specialist package of winches to assist Subsea
2011 Subsea 7 Dong Siri
7 in the repair of Dong Energy’s Siri Platform,
offshore Denmark

ACE designed, engineered and manufactured an Active

2010 Oceaneering Russell Tide, BP Angola Heave Compensation Winch Package onboard the Russell
Tide support vessel for BP in Block 31, Angola
ACE Winches designed, engineered and manufactured
2005 TechnipFMC BP Magnus deployment winches for installation on the BP Magnus
Extension Programme

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ACE Linear Winches

With an ever growing demand from our clients to meet

new global project requirements of deeper, longer and
2014
heavier lifting or pulling capacities out-with our already
ACE Winches ACE Winches

ACE Design and Manufacture of a 200Te

extensive winch hire fleet; ACE embraced the challenges
SWL Chain Linear Winch to suit 84mm chain
posed and engineered and manufactured its first linear
winches in 2014-15, each meeting their own client
respective requirements such as size, weight and handling 2015
constraints of the installations. ACE Winches ACE Winches

ACE Design and Manufacture of a

Following on from this our place in the market has firmly 100Te SWL Zone 2 Rope Linear Winch
been cemented with the addition of 3 further linear
winches with capacity now up to 800Te. ACE linear
winches are suitable for use in riser pull-ins, offshore wire
2016
rope deployment and recovery operations, landfall, pipe- ACE Winches ACE Winches

pulls, construction, salvage and other associated direct ACE Design and Manufacture of a
500Te SWL Rope Linear Winch
pulling operations in need of high capacity pulling forces.

The benefit of using a linear winch compared to of a 2017

conventional drum winch is instead of building up the ACE Winches ACE Winches

wraps (which reduces the mechanical advantage) as on a

ACE Design, Engineering, Project Manage-
drum winch, the wire is spooled on large reels or drums ment and delivery of a new build 800Te
and stored behind the winch. Linear Winches also offer a SWL Socket Passing Rope Linear Winch
higher line pull-to-weight ratio than conventional styles of
winches. 2017
ACE Winches ACE Winches

ACE today own and operate 5 linear winches, all

ACE Design and manufacture a second 800Te
available for hire.
SWL Socket Passing Rope Linear Winch

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ACE Winches - Linear Winch Track Record
ACE 100 Tonne SWL Rope Linear Winch - ACE 2938
Job No Customer Name Project / Scope of Work Job Description Year Location

N/A ACE Hire ACE Capex Project ACE Design and Manufacture of a 100Te SWL Zone 2 Rope 2015 Scotland, UK
Linear Winch, ACE 2938

ACE/1014/2014 Statoil Petroleum AS Statoil Troll B 2015 SLMP /
Rental of Linear Winch for E-riser
replacement
Rental of 100Te SWL Zone 2 Rope Linear Winch, Zone 2 Control May 2015 – Norwegian sector of
Station, 110kW Zone 2 Diesel Hydraulic Power Unit, Vertical and August 2015 the North Sea
Horizontal Sheave, RLM, Wire Rope Storage Reel c/w Standalone
Spooling Gear Unit, 60kW Zone 2 Diesel Hydraulic Power Unit.
Design and manufacture of grillages

ACE/0407/2017 Statoil Petroleum AS Statoil Troll B 2017 SLMP / Rental of 100Te SWL Zone 2 Rope Linear Winch, Zone 2 Control June 2017 – Norwegian sector of
Rental of Linear Winch for I-riser Station, 110kW Zone 2 Diesel Hydraulic Power Unit, Vertical and October 2017 the North Sea
Replacement Horizontal Sheave, RLM, Wire Rope Storage Reel c/w Standalone
Spooling Gear Unit, 60kW Zone 2 Diesel Hydraulic Power Unit.

N/A ACE Hire ACE Capex Project Upgrade of 100Te SWL Linear Winch to 150Te SWL Planned Scotland, UK
Q4 2017

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ACE Winches - Linear Winch Track Record
ACE 200 Tonne SWL Chain Linear Winch - ACE 2843
Job No Customer Name Project / Scope of Work Job Description Year Location

N/A ACE Hire ACE Capex Project ACE Design and Manufacture of a 200Te SWL Chain Linear Winch 2014 Scotland, UK
to suit 84mm chain, ACE 2843

ACE/0282/2014 BW Offshore Abo Lifetime Extension Project / Rental of 200Te SWL Linear Chain Winch, 220kW Zone 2 Diesel Q1 – Q3 2015 Nigeria
Replacement of Abo FPSO Chain HPU and specialist personnel
Moorings

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ACE Winches - Linear Winch Track Record
ACE 500 Tonne SWL Rope Linear Winch - ACE 3360
Job No Customer Name Project / Scope of Work Job Description Year Location

N/A ACE Hire ACE Capex Project ACE Design and Manufacture of a 500Te SWL Rope Linear Winch, 2016 Scotland, UK
ACE 3360

ACE/1335/2015 Heerema Marine HESS Stampede / Rental of 500Te SWL Rope Linear Winch, Control Station, 220kW Dec 2016 – Gulf of Mexico
Contractors Pull-in of 8 No. Steel Catenary Risers Zone 2 Diesel Hydraulic Power Unit, 200Te SWL Modular Spool- August 2017
(SCRs) ing Winch, Standalone Spooling Gear Unit, 110kW Zone 2 Diesel
Hydraulic Power Unit

ACE/0429/2017 Geocean Entrepose Excelerate Energy Rental of 500Te SWL Rope Linear Winch, Control Station, 220kW Sept 2017 – Bangladesh
Moheshkhali FLNG / Zone 2 Diesel Hydraulic Power Unit, 100Te SWL Spooling Winch, Ongoing
Shore Pull of submarine pipeline Standalone Spooling Gear, 110kW Zone 2 Diesel Hydraulic Power
Unit and 2 No. Horizontal Sheaves

ACE/0852/2017 LLOG Buckskin Subsea Tie-back Development Awarded project Planned operations Gulf of Mexico
/ Pull in of 2 No. 8 Inch SCR’s Rental of 500Te SWL Rope Linear Winch Package Q32018

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ACE Winches - Linear Winch Track Record
ACE 800 Tonne SWL Socket Passing Rope Linear Winch - ACE 3466
Job No Customer Name Project / Scope of Work Job Description Year Location

ACE/0585/2014 Archirodon ADCO, Al Dabbiya Surface Facilities ACE Design, Engineering, Project Management and delivery of a Installed and UAE
Phase III / Outfitting of Pipe Pull Barge new build 800Te SWL Socket Passing Rope Linear Winch with Commissioned
Load Monitoring and Data Logging, Holdback Tri-plate, Control Sept 2017 –
Station, 420kW Diesel Hydraulic Power Unit, 9 No. 125Te SWL
Powered Reel Stands, 3 No. Traversing Fairleads, 2 No. 800Te SWL Ongoing
Roller Box, 110kW Diesel Hydraulic Power Unit operations

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ACE Winches - Linear Winch Track Record
ACE 800 Tonne SWL Socket Passing Rope Linear Winch - ACE 3568
Job No Customer Name Project / Scope of Work Job Description Year Location

N/A ACE Hire ACE Capex Project ACE Design and Manufacture of an 800Te SWL Socket Passing 2017 - Ongoing Scotland, UK
Rope Linear Winch, ACE 3568

ACE/0399/2016 Saipem Statoil Johan Sverdrup Export Pipelines Awarded project. Rental of 800Te SWL Socket Passing Rope Planned opera- Planned operations
Installation / Linear Winch, Control Station, Anchor Arrangement, 420kW tions Q2 2018 Q2 2018
Pull-in of 36 Inch Oil Export Pipeline Diesel Hydraulic Power Unit, 225Te SWL Spooling Winch, 2
No. Sheaves and Wire Washing System

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Testimonial

ACE is the third linear winch subcontractor I have worked with, and
you guys are hands down the best to work with. That is without
mentioning your skills, flexibility, and overall candor about the work.
If you keep to your core values, I think you guys will stand out in
this industry. I sure will spread the word here in Houston to all the
major operators.

William Camilli, Heerema Project Manager

ACE 500te Linear Winch HESS Stampede Project

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