Ships – Mooring device – Boom type
Patent
1987-08-24
1989-06-27
Basinger, Sherman D.
Ships
Mooring device
Boom type
166355, B63B 2152
Patent
active
048418951
ABSTRACT:
A single point mooring system e.g. for an offshore oil or gas production system, consists of a rotary turret 6 provided in a floating structure 1 e.g. a tanker to which the turret is retrofitted. The turret 6 comprises a skirt portion 11 on the underside of the tanker and an upwardly extending cylindrical chimney portion 12. The turret is connected to the seabed by mooring lines 3 and risers 6 supply oil to the tanker for temporary storage. The mooring lines 3 comprise segmented chains that are hauled by winches 20 and secured by stoppers 18, 19 in the skirt 11. The turret is rotatably suspended from the upper end of the chimney portion 12 by an upper main bearing comprising rotary rings 40, 41, which is interchangeable while the mooring system is in service. Annularly disposed lower bearings 26 are arranged to resist radial loads on the chimney portion but to be compliant to axial turret loads, to accommodate forces and moments applied to the turret and the tanker by wave action.
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