1975-01-06
1976-01-27
Blix, Trygve M.
9 88, B63B 2152
Patent
active
039342891
ABSTRACT:
An offshore marine terminal for mooring a tanker and transferring fluids between the tanker and an underwater manifold. The offshore marine terminal comprises a buoyant member having a first end extending above the surface of the water and a second end submerged and extending beneath the water, a bathyal service chamber on the second end of the member defining an underwater habitat suitable for maintaining humans in an artificial atmosphere, an upper buoyancy and ballast chamber to selectively change the buoyancy of the member from a first lowered condition which has the bathyal service chamber positioned around the manifold to a second elevated position which has the chamber disposed above the manifold, and flow lines to transport the fluid through the chamber from the manifold to the tanker. The tanker may be moored to the terminal by a swivel mooring connection that is rotatable about the buoyant member. The terminal may be secured to the ocean bottom in a flexible manner such that a fulcrum point is created allowing the terminal to tilt.
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Blix Trygve M.
J. Ray McDermott & Co. Inc.
Sotelo Jesus D.
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