Umbilicals

Sector Overview

Bowen Umbilicals design, project-manage, manufacture, terminate and test an extensive range of high quality Hydraulic and Electro/Hydraulic umbilicals to satisfy the bespoke requirements of the client.

Working closely with clients from pre-sale through to installation, we help specify and develop an innovative and cost-effective solution, often on a very short lead-time compared with many manufacturers in the market; making us an ideal partner for quick turnaround projects.

With an extensive supply chain, our design team has access to a wide selection of robust hydraulic and thermoplastic hose and fittings, stock and bespoke electrical cables, fibre optic cables and hardware suppliers. We provide integrated solutions for all your project requirements.

Our Umbilical Products

The umbilical products we can supply are:

Diving Umbilicals and Components
Life Support Package Umbilicals
Main Bell Umbilicals
Emergency Bell Umbilicals
Hull Cleaning Umbilicals
Submarine Ventilation and Rescue Umbilicals
IWOCs
BOPs
Hydraulic/Electro-Hydraulic Umbilicals, Jumpers and Flying Leads
Subsea Cutting Umbilicals
Trenching Umbilicals
Pile Driving Umbilicals
Hydraulic/Electro Hydraulic Pile Clamp Umbilicals

Umbilical Materials

We have access to a large variety of long-length thermoplastic hoses, designed, manufactured and tested in accordance with the requirements of ISO 13628-5, including high collapse resistant (HCR) hose for chemical injection activities.

Umbilicals can be manufactured in both Planetary or Oscillatory cabled forms, with either steel wire ropes, or braided aramid fibre socks to provide strength members as required. This ensures that our systems can withstand harsh environments, ultra deepwater and extreme pressures and temperatures.

Depending on the application umbilicals and hose bundles can be supplied with a variety of outer jackets from simple expandable Polyester sleeves, robust UV stabilised High Density Polyethylene braided outer jackets through to extruded Polyethylene or Polyurethane outer jackets.

An umbilical cable can be terminated with a variety of hardware options, and we are equally happy to integrate clients free-issue hardware, or spool and integrate products to offshore reelers/winches.

In association with our International Partners, we can also supply:

Steel Tube Flying Leads
Long length Electro-Hydraulic and Steel Tube Production Control Umbilicals
Armoured Electro-Hydraulic Umbilicals
Air Gun Umbilicals and Towed Arrays
ROV Umbilicals
Specialty Electric Cables

Manufacture and re-manufacture services

In addition to the supply of new subsea umbilicals we are happy to offer customers manufacturing and remanufacturing services. Our manufacturing services include the cabling, braiding, extrusion and terminating/testing of umbilicals from free-issue components.

Our re-manufacturing services include the stripping of used umbilicals and re-manufacturing with new components to support future project requirements, cut backs and re-terminations to remove damaged sections where a usable length of umbilical can be saved.

We can also offer intervention and cutting umbilicals in joined sections, which can quickly be repaired with a spare section should an umbilical become damaged during an intervention or decommissioning campaign.