Squalls are intense, low-level winds associated with storms, and they always begin suddenly and last for minutes. They are characterized by large variation of wind speeds. Squalls control the design wind condition for floating production, storage and offloading systems (FPSOs) off the coast of West Africa. In this paper, an internal turret mooring system is designed to study the effects of squalls on the prediction of extreme tensions and offsets, which will be compared with the results from the way of using constant wind speed. Various statistic values of extreme tensions will be calculated and applied in the design. The differences between these values will also be discussed. Finally, the tandem offloading analysis is also performed in order to calculate the extreme hawser loads for the purpose of hawser line design.

Keywords:
upstream oil & gas, internal turret mooring system design, fpso, squall, subsea system, simulation, africa, radius, engineering, extreme hawser load
Subjects:
Offshore Facilities and Subsea Systems, Mooring systems
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2015. The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
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