Ship-shaped vessels have seen a tremendous growth in their use as Floating Production and/or Storage vessels. Along with this growth has come a need to moor in ever deeper water depths and with more flow lines. The most efficient means of dealing with the mooring of these vessels has been the incorporation of a turret. This turret allows the vessel to weathervane while providing a geostationary hull area to bring in flow and mooring lines. It is desirable to have these turret systems weathervane passively, which requires an efficient beating system, particularly as many turrets are retrofitted into converted vessels. Interfacing these bearing systems with the turret and vessel structure requires extensive design and analysis to assure their mutual deformations will not affect the longevity of the bearing system. A self-aligning bearing interface, incorporating the use of elastomeric supports, has been developed which eases the design of this bearing interface and reduces bearing loads. The elastomeric support system prevents the transmission of vessel deformations to the bearings thus assuring a low torque, long life, high external load capacity, bearing system.


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    Title :

    Latest breakthrough in turret moorings for FPSO systems: The forgiving tanker/turret interface


    Contributors:
    Pollack, J. (author) / Pabers, R.F. (author) / Lunde, P.A. (author)


    Publication date :

    1997


    Size :

    Seiten


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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