... developed in recent years that are cheaper to construct and install than conventional three or four legged steel jackets. Ref. 1 gives a good summary of the range of platform designs currently available. The platform designs usually comprise a superstructure supported on a single vertical caisson...

... hvo lower hulls (pontoons) which support six columns and a box type superstructure, and bracings, horizontal diagonals and vertical diagonals are provided to enable the unit to have sufficient strength. Lower hulls are located 54 m centers athwartship, and the dimensions are 102 m in length, 16.2 m...

... well. Line dynamics and line fatigue were analyzed during the design process. A detailed description of the LMS design criteria is presented in Ref. 1. platform wire anchor construction manufacture coil platform wire superstructure upstream oil & gas coating subsea system mooring...

.... superstructure riser manifold subsea system shuttle tanker flowline surge tank production unit mooring system petrobras tank turret moored fpso tanker barracuda field upstream oil & gas floating production system gas lift fpso operation new record installation OTC! 7700 Barracuda Field...

... tank eduardo karrer project management installation bid phase barracuda pilot system philosophy upstream oil & gas subsea system fpso evaluation campos basin arrangement superstructure cargo tank floating production system processing plant process plant morae operation...

... free of the superstructure on the barge; one at each end. The transverse centerline (hul1 and deck) after the deck was separated from the barge deflections were verified to be negligible, through material barge, the hul1 was debal lasted an additional ballast and surveying experimental ion...

... criteria assembly operation platform wire lms buoy superstructure foundation template tendon otc 7622 installation mooring system subsea system fabrication requirement girth weld upstream oil & gas anchor line tension intermediate buoy connector bottom section OTC...

... was an instrumented, steel, closed-end tube, 1 in. in diameter and 16 in. long, loaded through a spring-mass system to simulate feedback from a simple superstructure with a known natural period. Contour plots of stability conditions (sustained tension resistance and small pile movements), mobility conditions...

... superstructure assessment stability subsea system structural design cargo transfer facility ship resistance dolphin system us government pea upstream oil & gas seafloor foundation failure actf overturn fender kip gravity base dolphin embedment anchor dolphin OTC 5752...

... canyon block 29 shipyard operation platform sponson penrod 72 maintenance superstructure separation and treating aTC 5845 Modification of the Penrod 72 for Green Canyon Block 29 Development by J.J. Filson, A.D. Henderson, and L.S. Edelblum, Omega Marine Engineering Systems Inc. and R.D...

.... However, the same phenomenon does not appear in the lateral response of the pile. Figure 2 shows the lateral response of the pile which is fixed in rotation at the head to simulate the restraint imposed by the superstructure. Figure 2 indicates that the pile head lateral response (P-Y response...

... between the ship's superstructure and the platform deck References and illu~t~ationsat enaof paper. 209 continued for another 25 ft (9.62 m) to frame 105. The heavy solid lines at the lower part of the hull damage indicate where the hull was holed for approx- imately 31 ft (9.45 m) by the barge bumper...

... which has gone into the development of the ACES mobile rig design. The results of that effort are presented, including the design criteria and performance objectives used. water depth superstructure drilling equipment arctic cone exploration structure otc 4800 offshore drilling unit...

... accuracy wind load coefficient us government force component simulation model test mooring system current force center island tanker ship lateral force lateral coefficient state-of-the-art method superstructure steady load steady wind-and current-induced load subsea system...

... to occur in this type of platform should be considered. In Japan. a relatively small taut moored platform for seabed boring was installed in about some water depth in 1973. The superstructure of this platform is a semisubmersible which consists of a square deck with a side 43m long and four caissons...

... system spm hose downtime operational experience buoy superstructure elsbm buoy repair tanker platform location single buoy upstream oil & gas north sea helicopter landing facility loading facility loading hose subsea system conventional spm operation OTC 3805 EXPOSED LOCATION...

... fundamental behavior soil-pile system lateral load-deflection relationship reservoir characterization superstructure soil-pile spring loading condition load-deflection relationship stiffness sp interaction resonance frequency shear strain interaction sp system spring constant earthquake...

... part of such an Arctic production system. This Arctic Production Monocone (APM) has been designed for year round operation in the Beaufort Sea in medium water depths up to 250 feet. The platform is comprised of three basic components; a doughnut shaped base, a bottle shaped superstructure...

... the application of diffraction theory to practical North Sea platform configurations which are composed of caissons with superstructures composed of smaller diameter members. The caisson is treated by use of diffraction theory using a source distribution over the immersed surface of the caisson...

... strength ductility foundation earthquake curvature stiffness upstream oil & gas criteria mudline distortion strut soil support application tubular offshore structure hinge deformation superstructure marshall deflection OTC 2908 INELASTIC DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF TUBULAR OFFSHORE...