Single Point Moorings |
Common terms and phrases
anchor base anchor chains anchor leg mooring articulated ballast barge berth buoy body buoyancy buoyancy tank CALM cargo transfer catenary components configuration connection costs crude oil diameter drilled ELSBM equipment facilities Field FIGURE fixed platform Flexpipe floating production floating storage fluid swivel FPSO system frequency gimbal hawser hinges IMODCO installation manifold maximum meters model tests mooring force mooring hawser mooring lines mooring load mooring system motion North Sea offloading offshore operation OTC Paper Pemex Petrobras pile pipe pipeline PLEM pressure QA/QC QA/QC program riser roller bearing rope SALM seabed seastates Shell SBM Ship Model Basin shore shown in Fig significant wave height single point mooring slurry Snotter SPAR SPM system Statfjord steel storage vessel structure submarine hose subsea tanker beam tanker moored Tazerka terminal tons transport tanker turntable unijoint universal joint vertical water depth wind yoke