Business View Magazine | December 2019

156 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2019 depths ranging from shallow to ultra-deep. They include: Internal Disconnectable Turrets, Internal Permanent Turrets, External Turrets, Spread Mooring Systems, and Tower Yoke Mooring Systems. In addition, SOFEC upped its technological prowess by developing mooring systems for floating LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) vessels, and floating re-gas mooring systems for vessels designed to convert LNG back to natural gas. In 1993, SOFEC was acquired by FMC Technologies, and in 2006, by MODEC (Mitsui Ocean Development & Engineering Co.) headquartered in Tokyo. SOFEC, itself, is headquartered in Houston, Texas and has approximately 300 employees. “We also have an office in Singapore,” Waronoff adds. “We have 18 full-time employees and our fabrication personnel are scattered around the globe, depending on where it is we’re building at the time. Right now, we have projects being built in Singapore at Keppel, and at PJOE in Penglai, China.”