Menu About SOFEC Mooring Solutions & Fluid Transfer Systems We’re the moorings and fluid transfer specialists. SOFEC’s mooring systems provide safe, reliable, and innovative solutions for the global offshore energy industry, operating further offshore in deeper waters and in harsher environments than ever before. Our Vision Our vision is to be a global leader in mooring solutions. With integrity and open communication, our diverse team of experts delivers innovative and reliable mooring and fluid transfer systems to our clients while protecting our neighbors and the environment. Our Mission While keeping a strong focus on integrity, people, and performance, we design and deliver mooring and fluid transfer systems for the global offshore energy industry on time and on budget. Our core values guide us in everything we do. Integrity We always protect the lives, health, and dignity of our people, clients, and communities, treating everyone with respect and professionalism. We maintain high ethical standards, doing the right thing consistently while keeping our commitments to quality and delivery. People We strive to hire and retain the most qualified people. We maximize their opportunities for success through development and training. With open communication, collaboration, and a focus on the client, we are committed to providing a fulfilling work environment enriched by diversity. Performance While we design and deliver safe, reliable, and innovative mooring and fluid transfer systems for the offshore energy industry, we hold ourselves accountable to run safe and environmentally responsible operations Sustainability SOFEC recognizes that being a socially responsible member of the community means actively working to support community needs and striving to conduct business sustainably. For more on sustainability, visit our parent company MODEC. Our History and Expertise For 50 years, SOFEC (Specialized Offshore Facilities and Engineered Components) evolved from supplying Single Anchor Leg Mooring Systems in the U.S. to a proven and technically advanced supplier of mooring and fluid transfer systems for offshore energy companies, operating all over the world. Today, SOFEC, a MODEC company, has completed more than 130 global projects, developing highly sophisticated technology with more than 80 worldwide patents. Our technology, primarily designed around the requirements for tanker mooring and fluid transfer facilities, meets the increasingly complex applications and operational conditions of the offshore energy industry. Our exceptional capabilities include predicting loads and motion on floating structures and the ability to design and construct specialty equipment successfully. Our engineers and designers continue to be experts in the development of environmental forces as well as hydrodynamic, geotechnical, and fluid dynamic analysis and the design of structural, mechanical, and hydraulic systems. Our team is exceedingly skilled in fabricating and assembling significant structural components as well as heavy precision-machined weldments. Our expertise enables us to transport, install, test, and maintain these systems for offshore energy companies that operate at greater depths and in harsher environments. READ MORE Company Profile In the late 1960s, Standard Oil of New Jersey (“Exxon Corporation”), with assistance from a New York-based engineering company, Van Houten Associates, developed a Single Point Mooring concept known as a Single Anchor Leg Mooring (SALM) and installed two such systems; one in Libya and the other in Okinawa, Japan. In 1972, Exxon offered to license the technology to interested contractors. A gentleman named Ben Gross (with longtime experience in the valve business) enlisted the support of Van Houten Associates as an outside engineering company, and together they negotiated a license agreement with Exxon and founded Specialized Offshore Facilities and Engineered Components (“SOFEC”). The Company was incorporated in the State of Texas, USA on May 30, 1972, and SOFEC was officially born. SOFEC’s mission was to supply the Offshore Oil Industry with systems to moor and load/offload tankers. With financial structure and assistance from Texas United and upon the hiring of its first employees, SOFEC successfully executed its first contract in 1973 for the design, fabrication and installation of the world’s deepest (at the time) tanker-loading facility for Esso Malaysia in the South China Sea. READ MORE CAREERS Create The Future You Want Be part of our team and create the future of mooring systems. 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