...-minute to 10-minute wind fields. It contains no adjustment to the boundary layer and the winds should be considered full marine exposure wind fields. The water surface elevation is the surge tide. It includes the storm surge and the astronomical tide. In the Gulf of Mexico, the tide range is small...

.... mooring system accuracy coefficient frequency model test vessel model upstream oil & gas operation estimation objective function correspond parameter value stiffness artificial intelligence marine operation high-precision data prediction forecast simulation wave direction surge...

... floaters , Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, OMAE , June 10-15 , San Diego, California, USA . drag coefficient mooring system lab scale tlp surge subsea system scale tlp vim tlp riser floating production system coefficient...

... riser harsh environment heave rao arrangement sea state cylindrical fpso feasibility offshore technology conference fatigue life moonpool riser case study scr surge OTC 20762 Demonstrating the Feasibility of Steel Catenary Risers from a Cylindrical FPSO in Harsh Deepwater Locations Jan...

... elevation mean wind speed return period gulf central region maximum wave height significant wave height storm elevation contour hurricane condition water depth wind speed mexico surge storm surge upstream oil & gas Copyright 2007, Offshore Technology Conference This paper was prepared...

..., or mechanical mooring systems like tower yoke moorings. coefficient surge upstream oil & gas characteristic anchor leg shallow water otc 16720 subsea system offshore technology conference artificial intelligence turret riser system diameter variation elevation fpso water depth...

... associated low-frequency bound wave. The bound wave amplitude is generally positive when the fundamental wave amplitude is low, and is generally negative when the fundamental wave amplitude is high. The bound waves, and the associated low-frequency dynamic wave loads that excite the resonant surge, sway...

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... transfer line wave period subsea system vector global coordinate system shuttle tanker surge equation matrix coordinate system mass matrix calm buoy analysis technique upstream oil & gas analysis capability rao characteristic retardation function steel transfer line OTC 15378...

... frequency vortex bend stiffener installation curvature bpp technical service amplitude subsea system sensor vibration riser otc 8883 fpso upstream oil & gas frequency component foinaven umbilical performance lyon barnay otc 8883 surge heave aTe 8883 The Foinaven...

... (OTRC) in Texas. This spar has draft h=198m, diameter d=42.7m, and a center well to protect drilling and production risers. We specifically study its reliability against extreme surge offsets, based on state-of-the- art nonlinear diffraction force models (Kim and Yue, 1989). Reliability consequences...

... in order to produce a high quality hindcast database of winds, waves, storm surges and depth-integrated currents for the North European continental shelf (Figure 1.1). The project was funded by eleven Participants (nine oil companies, and two government departments) and the work was carried out...

... response of an SPM tanker to the damping, non-linearities in the mooring system as well as to sea state parameters. To do this, a systematic analysis has been performed and the peak distribution of surge motion and mooring loads have been derived by means of a simplified numerical procedure specifically...

... was 1.545 meters (60.85 inches). maxima variation mooring system subsea system basin turret system frequency wave height salm test tanker variability upstream oil & gas time series technology conference salm yaw standard deviation statistical variability repeatability surge...

... of a complete liquid and gas separator combined with pump and compressor modules as a single unit for subsea installation. Variable speed pump and compressor motors, submerged hydraulically actuated gas compressor anti-surge system, monocyclonic gas scrubber and associated computer monitoring and control items...

... buoyancy in the floating structure. The objective is to eliminate heave, roll and pitch motions of the platform by taking the associated loads axially in these vertical legs. The platform does however experience motions of surge, sway and yaw. Among other considerations, hydrodynamic analysis of a TLP...

... that drag forces on the mooring lines can represent the dominating contribution to the surge damping of moored vessels. They have also shown that in order to calculate this damping effect correctly one normally has to take into account the effect of the wave-frequency motions of the vessel, superposed...

... surge decay test contribution irregular wave hull vessel motion equation offshoretechnologyconference mooring system upstream oil & gas friction surge low-frequency vessel motion wave drift low-frequency surge motion subsea system prediction wave drift force OTe 6660...

... shows the locations of the wave probe and accelerometer, and the definitions of surge and sway directions. Measurements were recorded for 50 minutes of each hour. The largest recorded storm was a 26 ft (8 m) significant wave height storm which occurred on December 24. Based upon the significant wave...

... recent OTC papers (Refs. 1 and 2) the importance of a catenary mooring system in producing surge damping of the moored vessel has been demonstrated. The present paper aims at clarifying the effect of superposed wave frequency line motiohs upon the low frequency surge damping of the mooring system...