Mooring apparatus and method of installation for deep water tension leg platform
US4784529A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 6, 1987 |
| Grant date | Nov 15, 1988 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 6, 2007 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10T403/32983
- WIPO fieldTransport
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
A method for securely mooring a floating tension leg platform to an anchoring base template. The method involves swinging an end of a neutrally bouyant, one piece tendon which has an enlarged connector downwardly into position adjacent an anchoring receptacle, pulling the enlarged connector through a side-entry opening in the receptacle, lifting the tendon to seat the enlarged connector in a load ring of the receptacle, adjusting the effective length of the tendon to place it in tension and repeating these steps for each of the mooring tendons.
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