Frontier Pitts designed, manufactured and installed anti-terrorist gates and barriers to the Rumaila Oil Fields in Southern Iraq, which are estimated to contain 17 billion barrels of oil, accounting for 12% of Iraq’s oil reserves.

In total  25 Terra manual arm barriers and 18 Terra sliding cantilevered gates completed the project. Both products are from Frontier Pitts' Anti Terra portfolio and have been successfully impact tested in accordance with the British Standards PAS 68 specification.

The barriers are manually operated by the security guards and provide traffic control. These are backed by shallow foundation Terra sliding cantilevered gates, which provide an extremely high level of defence, with the capability to stop 7.5t travelling @ 50mph.

National security consultants required an integrated turnkey security system. The project specification required a quality product which had been created under an audited BSI (British Standards Institute) Quality Management System, whilst also complying with the stringent criteria of the British PAS 68 impact test program.

The gate leaf is constructed with a heavy-duty crash impact beam and heavy-duty posts support the gate leaf. The cantilevered gate requires no track or support across the roadway, therefore no roadway excavation was needed. The balance is provided by a unique enclosed "runback", which enables the gate to be fully projected across the roadway without the risk of tipping.

A number of PAS 68 Terra manual barriers were also installed with the Terra sliding cantilevered gates. This counterbalanced rising arm gate is available in widths up to 6m. It is the ideal solution for remote locations where no power is available (ie remote oil fields of Southern Iraq).

Frontier Pitts also offered onsite training and support for a team of engineers.

Services

  • Consultancy
  • Design
  • Manufacture
  • Installation
  • Commissioning
  • Maintenance
  • Support
  • Training