List of Figures

3.1. Shell’s Bullwinkle Platform under tow to installation site

3.2. Deepwater Fixed Platforms Overview (Offshore Magazine)

3.3. Amerada Hess ‘’Balpate’’ Compliant Tower

3.4. Compliant Towers Overview (Offshore)

3.5. Truss SPAR General Arrangement

3.6. Classic SPAR General Arrangement

3.7. Truss SPAR General Arrangement

3.8. Cell SPAR General Arrangement

3.9. Existing SPARs - Offshore Magazine Poster (2018 status)

3.10. Turret Moored FPSO General Arrangement

3.11. Girrasol FPSO (Spread, Angola)

3.12. KAOMBO NORTE FPSO (Internal Turret, Angola)

3.13. EGINA FPSO (Spread, Nigeria)

3.14. MOHO NORD FPU with its TLP (Spread, Congo)

3.15. FDPSOs from MURPHY EP (Spread, Congo)

3.16. PRELUDE FLNG from SHELL (Turret, Australia)

3.17. Okume TLP – Trident Engergy (Equatorial Guinea)

3.18. Schematic of the Mars TLP – SHELL

3.19. Ursa TLP – Modules Installation – SHELL (GoM)

3.20. MOHO NORD TLP – TOTAL (Congo)

3.21. MOHO NORD TLP SIMOPS– Schematics

3.22. Mattherhorn Mini-TLP (GoM)

3.23. Typhoon Mini-TLP – CHEVRONTEXACO/BHPBILLITON (GoM)

3.24. Ichthys Semi-Submersible wet tow – INPEX (Australia, 250m WD)

3.25. Thunder Horse Semi-Submersible transportation – BP (GOM)

3.26. Converted Semi-Submersible FPS – PETROBRAS (Brazil)

3.27. SSP Piranema - PETROBRAS

3.28. SSP Piranema Tanks - PETROBRAS

3.29. SSP Piranema Bilge Box – PETROBRAS

3.30. Sevan floating facilities (2016)

3.31. INDEPENDENCE HUB Deep Draft Semi

3.32. AKER Deep Draft Semi (DDSS)

3.33. TECHNIP Extended Draft Platform (EDP)

3.34. OffshoreTech LLC (OTL) TCDD-Semi Concept

4.1. Deepwater Floater Concepts Relative Heave in Waves Response

4.2. Floater Choice (dry or wet trees) versus Reservoir Geometry Criteria

4.3. Typical TLP Design Cycle

4.4. Water Depth Range Comparison by Deepwater Production Type (by Courtesy of Offshore Mag.)

4.5. Throughput Capacity Ranges by Deepwater Production Type (by Courtesy of Offshore Mag.)

4.6. Well Capability by Deepwater Production Type - Includes Production & Water Injection Wells (by Courtesy of Offshore Mag.)

5.1. Samsung Heavy Industries – Geoje Shipyard (South Korea)

5.2. Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. (South Korea)

5.3. Technip Mantyluoto (SPAR) Shipyard Pori (Finland)

5.4. Typical FPSO Execution Schedule (see notes)

5.5. Typical FPSO Execution Schedule (see notes)

5.6. Typical TLP Execution Schedules (see notes))

5.7. Typical Semi-Submersible Execution Schedule (see notes)

5.8. Typical SPAR Execution Schedule (see notes)

5.9. Dockwise ‘Vanguard ’ – MOHO NORD FPU Transportation

5.10. Dockwise ‘Mighty Servant 1’ – Thunder Horse Semi-Submersible Transportation

5.11. Jumbo ‘J1800 class’

5.12. Heerema Thialf

5.13. Heerema Balder

5.14. Saipem 7000

5.15. DB50 – McDermott

6.1. Deepwater mooring configurations

6.2. FPU typical Spread Mooring System

6.3. Dry termination system

6.4. Underwater fairleads and dry stoppers

6.5. Underwater Fairleads and Chain Stoppers

6.6. Bending shoes + winch deck arrangement

6.7. Bending shoes

6.8. Bending shoes + chain jack deck arrangement

6.9. UCSF + winch

6.10. UCSF + windlass

6.11. Uni-Joints – Design

6.12. Uni-Joints – design – IHC Assembly

6.13. Inline Mooring Tensioner – SBM

6.14. Catenary Moorings

6.15. Multi-Catenary Mooring incorporating subsea buoys

6.16. Taut Spread Mooring

6.17. Tendon System Description

6.18. Moho Nord TLP Tendon Configuration

6.19. Definition of TLP Offset and Set-down

6.20. External Turret (Libra FPSO on the bottom)

6.21. Internal Turret – Kaombo Norte and Marlim Sul FPSOs

6.22. RTM Mooring System (by Courtesy of SBM)

6.23. BTM Mooring System (by Courtesy of SBM)

6.24. BTM Mooring System – Turritella FPSO (SHELL, GOM)

6.25. Submerged Turret Production system (STP) Connect & Disconnect Sequences

6.26. Initial Position of the Vessel in Equilibrium without Environmental Forces

6.27. Equilibrium Position of the Vessel under the Action of Beam Seas Mean Environmental Forces

6.28. Chain Link (by Courtesy of Vicinay Cadenas)

6.29. Wire Construction Types

6.30. Spiral Strand Wire Rope Mechanical Characteristics (typical)

6.31. Superline Steelite Xcel Elongation Plots (by Courtesy of Marlow Ropes)

6.32. Dyneema Rope Characteristics (by Courtesy of Marlow Ropes)

6.33. Chain Connector Plate to Wire or Synthetic Mooring Lines

6.34. Fluke Anchor Components

6.35. Main Fluke Anchor Types

6.36. Drag Embedment Fluke Anchor (Bruce Flatkluke)

6.37. Bridle Arrangement

6.38. Rigid Shank Arrangement

6.39. Suction Caisson Anchor (deployment from AHT deck)

6.40. Sea bed trenching in front of suction piles

6.41. Anchor Pile & Hammer

6.42. Torpedo anchor

6.43. Hurricanes & Typhoons Paths - Wordlwide

6.44. FPSO Munin in Full DP Mode (Bluewater)

6.45. Seillean, a DP Class-2 FPSO operating in up to 2,000-m Water Depth (Brazil)

6.46. Haewene Brim DP FPSO (Bluewater)

7.1. The Dalia Buoy based on the APL's BTL system (see Section Section 7.1.3, “Turret Buoys”)

7.2. CALM Buoy Concepts

7.3. CALM Buoy Detailed Description (typical)

7.4. Girassol CALM Buoy (Total, WoA)

7.5. Ehra CALM Buoy (ExxonMobil, WoA)

7.6. The APL's Buoy Turret Loading (BTL) system

7.7. The EGINA BTL general and internal turret views

7.8. HiLoad Offloading System Overview

7.9. Connection Sequence

7.10. Typical Offloading System Overview

7.11. HiLoad Scale Model Testing

7.12. HiLoad tandem offloading

7.13. CTV principle

7.14. Total's Girassol offloading system – buoyancy module and buoy details

7.15. Dalia Export Lines Nominal Configuration

7.16. Ehra Export Lines Nominal Configuration

7.17. PAZFLOR OOL’s Gimble table Installation