Hydraulic and earth engineering – Marine structure or fabrication thereof
Patent
1993-03-11
1995-08-08
Taylor, Dennis L.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Marine structure or fabrication thereof
166350, 166359, 405224, E02B 1700
Patent
active
054393213
ABSTRACT:
The interruptive mobile production (IMP) system comprises a floating semisubmersible structure with equipment and facilities for hydrocarbon production in association with a small tension leg wellhead platform (TLWP) having direct vertical access. The small TLWP has an upper deck positioned above the surface of the water with wellhead equipment thereon and has risers generally vertically connecting subsea wells to the upper deck.
Lateral bending restraints of the risers and tendons are preferably located at about the same horizontal level as the lower pontoon section. The semisubmersible structure can be conveniently disconnected from its moorings and from the wellhead platform for demobilizing to another location while the TLWP remains tethered in place.
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Conoco Inc.
Taylor Dennis L.
Tsirigotis M. Kathryn
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