Rapidly installable mooring and cargo transfer system

Details Rapidly installable mooring and cargo transfer system Rapidly installable mooring and cargo transfer system

1979-09-04

1986-03-04

Blix, Trygve M.

Ships

Mooring device

Boom type

114294, 114 26, 441 5, 441 32, B63B 2100

Patent

active

045734259

ABSTRACT:
A system which can be set up in emergencies to moor an offloading vessel and transfer oil between it and a seabed pipeline, as to remove oil from a grounded tanker or to deliver fuel to the shore under hostile or emergency conditions. The system includes a barge containing a fluid swivel as well as a mooring buoy and buoy-holding chain. The barge can be towed to a desired location and pipes and hoses connected to the fluid swivel, and the barge then can be sunk to the seabed. Upon sinking, the barge is already connected to the seabed pipeline and to hoses that extend from the barge to the sea surface to connect to an offloading vessel, as well as being connected through a chain to a buoy floating at the sea surface which has a hawser for mooring the vessel. A vessel can be utilized to tow out the seabed pipeline, to facilitate installation of the pipeline as to enable connection of the pipeline to the fluid swivel on the barge prior to sinking the barge.

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patent: 4065822 (1978-01-01), Wilbourn
patent: 4152088 (1979-05-01), Vilain

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