Hydraulic and earth engineering – Marine structure or fabrication thereof
Patent
1994-11-08
1996-09-24
Neuder, William P.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Marine structure or fabrication thereof
405224, 166345, 166355, E02B 1700
Patent
active
055584675
ABSTRACT:
A deep water offshore apparatus for use in oil drilling and production in which an upper buoyant hull of prismatic shape is provided with a passage longitudinally extending through the hull in which risers run down to the sea floor, the bottom of the hull being located at a selected depth dependent upon the wind, wave, and current environment at the well site, which significantly reduces the wave forces acting on the bottom of the hull, a frame structure connected to the hull bottom and extending downwardly and comprising a plurality of vertically arranged bays defined by vertically spaced horizontal water entrapment plates and providing open windows around the periphery of the frame structure, the windows providing transparency to ocean currents and to wave motion in a horizontal direction to reduce drag, the vertical space between the plates corresponding to the width of the bay window, the frame structure being below significant wave action whereby wave action thereat does not contribute to heave motion of the apparatus but inhibits heave motion, the frame structure serving to modify the natural period and stability of the apparatus to minimize heave, pitch, and roll motions of the apparatus. A keel assembly at the bottom of the frame structure with ballast chambers for enabling the apparatus to float horizontally and for stabilization of the apparatus against tilting in vertical position, and taut anchor lines connected to the apparatus at a location of relatively little cyclic movement of the apparatus, the said lines being connected to suitable anchors.
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Deep Oil Technology, Inc.
Neuder William P.
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