...OTC-30489-MS Reliability of Very Large Crude Carrier and Single Anchor Leg Mooring Buoy Mooring System During Squall Event Rabih Ali Khodr, Riyadh Saad Shiban, Bassim Abdulhadi Nawaz, and Saleem Parvez Mistry, Saudi Aramco Copyright 2020, Offshore Technology Conference This paper was prepared...

... 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...

... ABSTRACT The first SALM (Single Anchor Leg Mooring) was installed at Brega, Libya, in October, 1969. During the next six years over 229 million barrels of crude oil were loaded through the facility. In October, 1975 all components of the SALM, with the exception of the base, were removed...

... 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...