Mooring apparatus and method of installation for deep water tension leg
platform
    1.
    发明授权
    Mooring apparatus and method of installation for deep water tension leg platform 失效
    深水张力腿平台的系泊装置及安装方法

    公开(公告)号:US5324141A

    公开(公告)日:1994-06-28

    申请号:US105942

    申请日:1987-10-06

    IPC分类号: B63B21/50 E02D5/62

    CPC分类号: B63B21/502 Y10T403/7015

    摘要: Apparatus for mooring attachment of a floating tension leg platform to a subsea anchorage. The apparatus includes a tendon with an enlarged connector on one end, the connector being formed by a frustoconical bearing surface extending away from the end to which it is connected. A connector shroud partially surrounds the frustoconical surface and is connected to it by an elastomeric bearing. An inwardly sloping surface engages a supplementarily sloped surface formed on the attachment receptacle load ring to increase hoop strength. A side-entry bottom receptacle is also disclosed.

    摘要翻译: 用于将浮动张力腿平台附接到海底锚地的装置。 该装置包括在一端具有放大连接器的腱,该连接器由延伸远离其连接端部的截头圆锥体支承表面形成。 连接器护罩部分地围绕截头圆锥形表面并且通过弹性轴承与其连接。 向内倾斜的表面接合形成在附接插座承载环上的辅助倾斜表面以增加箍强度。 还公开了侧入式底部容器。

    Mooring apparatus and method of installation for deep water tension leg
platform
    2.
    发明授权
    Mooring apparatus and method of installation for deep water tension leg platform 失效
    深水张力腿平台的系泊装置及安装方法

    公开(公告)号:US4848970A

    公开(公告)日:1989-07-18

    申请号:US232396

    申请日:1988-08-11

    IPC分类号: B63B21/50

    CPC分类号: B63B21/502 B63B2021/505

    摘要: A method for securely mooring a floating tension leg platform and an anchoring base template. The method involves swinging an end of a neutrally buoyant, 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. A one-piece, thin-walled, neutrally buoyant tendon is also disclosed.