An innovative concept for deep water oil production platform design /
All the calculations are performed for regular and random
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| Format: | Thesis eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | Link to OAKTrust copy |
| Summary: | All the calculations are performed for regular and random and the pitch motion is always smaller than one degree. All As more oil and gas are discovered in deep water, the be a very interesting approach for the future offshore been built and tested in deep water wave at the Offshore below the ocean surface. This new structure concept is buoy. Thus, this new concept is proved to be feasible and to configurations. A model with a scale 1:60 of this concept has deck and the drilling/production equipment of 10000 tons are design concept tentatively called FPSOT (Floating Production, design of deep water offshore production facilities. A new draft, weight, buoyancy and catenary system. The motions of framed structure supported by a buoyancy/storage tank deep Instead of using a single large cylindrical structure as in members, wave forces on the upper structure is very small. members. Because of the smallness of these cylindrical offshore industry has become increasingly interested in the performed between this new concept and a spar buoy of same platform design. platform will be very stable even in a very severe sea state, provide a good stability of the structure. The stored oil, rd/sec). small even in stormy waves as compared to the other platform Storage and Off loading Tower) is studied in this thesis. suitable for water depths up to 1000 meters or more. 20000 supported by a framed structure made of small cylindrical Technology Research Center on campus. The experimental and The forces on the lower structure (buoyancy/ballast tank), the FPSOT, specially in pitch, are smaller than the spar the natural frequencies are very small (less than 0.055 the spar configuration, the FPSOT utilizes a jacket-type theoretical results are very close. A comparison is tons of concrete and 67000 tons of oil, serving as ballast, used as a ballast, can also be replaced by sea water. The waves. It was found that the platform motions were extremely which is deeply submerged, are also small. Thus, the with maximum surge and heave motions are less than two meters |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Ocean Engineering". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 118 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. Also available online. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |