... and anchor leg mooring systems. Based on the authors’ experiences with engineering, supplying, and supporting operations of these systems, this paper aims to provide practical insight in how these systems and their unique components operate, and how their condition and performance can be assessed through...

... Water FPSO Applications Fig. 1 depicts a typical deep water FPSO spread moor system. Each anchor leg is constituted by two segments of chain, one located at the bottom and the second close to the surface; joined by a single or multiple segments of polyester rope. In case of the mooring system shown...

... terminal experienced severe problems after the successive failures of five of its anchor legs, due to a new fatigue phenomenon (see Ref. [1] and Ref. [2]). However, it was successfully repaired in May 2004 and has been operating normally since then. The three other terminals also operate...

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... the installation process, including high holding power anchor placement to final vertical and horizontal location of the combination steel and syntactic foam Spider Buoy. Adjustment of the anchor legs (combination chainwire- excursion limiter-wire-chain) to compensate for variances in the individual anchor drag...

.... The system involved locating an internal turret inthe forepeak structure of the FPSO supported by a three race roller bearing allowing the tanker to weathervane around the mooring (refer to Figure 1). Connection of the turret to the submerged mooring buoy carrying the eight catenary anchor legs is effected...

... in excess of 100 MDWT. Ju'aymah Terminal has been in operation for five years. The major offshore facilities include crude loading systems, control and metering platforms, four Catenary Anchor Leg Moorings (CALM's) and two Single Anchor Leg Moorings (SALM's). From the large amount of oil loaded and tankers...

... ABSTRACT In the ten years since its first installation, the SALM (single anchor leg mooring) has been applied at many locations throughout the world, both for conventional oil import and export terminals and for deepwater production storage and loading facilities. Eleven SALMs have been...

... ABSTRACT This paper discusses the design and the major components of three (3) Single Anchor Leg Mooring (SALM) terminals which will be used to moor and unload tankers up to 700,000 DWT at the first domestic port capable of accommodating deep draft vessels. The extensive model tests and basic...

... Gulf) which are the largest export SPMs ever built, and discusses the unique design features that were incorporated into these systems to make them safer, more efficient and more economical to operate than previous SPM designs. anchor leg subsea system hose system terminal salm hose arm...

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... Abstract A new single anchor leg mooring (SALM) system has been developed through an extensive research program. The SALM differs considerably from conventional single point moorings. The mooring buoy is anchored to a base on the sea floor through a single anchor leg consisting of a pipe...