A self-installing offshore platform includes a top deck that supports an offshore facility, a column having a top end and a bottom end, the top end connected to the top deck, the column that supports the top deck to maintain the top deck above water in a water body in both the deployed state and the undeployed state of the self-installing offshore platform, a skirt connected to the bottom end of the column, the skirt residing above a floor of the water body in the undeployed state of the self-installing offshore platform and residing on the floor of the water body in the deployed state of the self-installing offshore platform, and a ballastable float positioned between the top deck and the skirt, the ballastable float floating in the water when the self-installing offshore platform transitions from the undeployed state to the deployed state.
Self-installing offshore platform
2019-07-16
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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