Orga installs Circle-H helideck lighting on North Sea

platform

Orga Offshore has installed its innovative touchdown/positioning marking

(TD/PM) circle and heliport identification marking LED lighting system - Circle-H on offshore platform in the North Sea.
The Orga CAP437-compliant TD/PM Circle-H helideck lighting system was
installed by Wood Group/PSN under the supervision of Orga Offshore and
was completed 6 September 2014.
Providing expert advice, Orga worked closely with the Wood Group/PSN to
install the safety lighting system on the platform's aluminium helideck. This
marks the 14th TD/PM Circle-H helideck lighting installation so far this year
by Orga and the ninth commission on an aluminium helideck. Having
intensively researched and developed the best mounting methods for both
aluminium and steel helidecks - indeed, the first Circle-H installation in the
world was fitted on a steel deck by Orga - Orga is well positioned to help all
operators and rig owners meet the latest CAP437 requirements.
Following almost a decade of research and trialling, in collaboration with
Orga, to improve offshore helideck lighting, the UK CAA recently
incorporated the circle and H helideck lighting configuration in its
internationally acknowledged guidance on standards, CAP 437 - effectively
mandating the retrofit of the new lighting scheme to all helidecks in UK
waters. Approximately half of all helidecks are to be equipped by 1 April
2016 and the remainder by 1 April 2018.
Supervising the installation on this offshore platform, Martin Terwisscha van
Scheltinga, International Services Engineer at Orga said: "We worked closely
with our customer and Wood Group/PSN to ensure the safe and correct
installation of the Circle-H lighting system - this is crucial now that the lights
have been integrated into the helideck landing surface.

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"Throughout all Orga Circle-H installations this year, clients have been
impressed with the simplicity of installation," said Terwisscha van Scheltinga.
"It is the clever design of our product with LED light-prepared module plates
which enables easy installation and it is our approved different mounting
methods for steel and aluminium decks which ensures the structural
integrity, durability and water-tightness of the helideck."
The new Orga touchdown/positioning marking Circle-H helideck lighting
system features specially developed long life LED modules on panels which
together form the full circle and H. The panels are semi-flexible and made of
low-profile aluminium or stainless steel plates with a special anti-slip coating.
The housing of the LEDs is made of offshore resistant and fully sealed marine
plastic of high quality.