Ships – Mooring device – Boom type
Patent
1980-04-09
1982-09-28
Basinger, Sherman D.
Ships
Mooring device
Boom type
114265, 414293, B63B 2150
Patent
active
043512585
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for tension mooring an offshore platform having a deck and a plurality of buoyancy columns. An anchor system is initially installed upon the bed of a body of water. Permanent mooring lines are then connected to the anchor system and extend upwardly for support by a buoyancy system located below a lowest portion of the offshore platform and a zone of high oxygen content water adjacent the surface of the body of water. Sacrificial mooring lines are connected to an upper portion of the buoyancy system and extend upwardly through internal conduits with the plurality of bouyancy columns of the floating platform. In the event one of the sacrificial mooring lines becomes damaged the line may be selectively released from the buoyancy system, drawn up through a corresponding interior column and replaced from the deck of the platform.
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Ray Donald R.
Steddum Riddle E.
Basinger Sherman D.
Kile Bradford E.
The Offshore Company
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