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7389736 Mooring system  
An offset anchoring system for anchoring objects to a floor of a body of water includes T-shaped anchor members arranged in a cluster. Each anchor member having an elongate first and second beams....
7299760 Floating LNG import terminal and method for docking  
A floating terminal for offloading an LNG carrier vessel in the sea. The floating terminal of open frame construction is moored toward its front end with a rotatable mooring arrangement so that the...
7121221 Floatable dock mooring article  
A floating dock mooring article that is movably connected around a watercraft dock pipe comprises a float operatively connected to a mooring member having a flange generally located at the upper...
7021230 Floatable dock mooring article  
A floating dock mooring article, which slidably fits around a watercraft dock pipe, comprising a flotation device attached to a mooring member and a flange generally located at the upper end...
6817809 Seabed oil storage and tanker offtake system  
An offshore oil storage and offtake system is disclosed. The system includes a storage tank attachable to the seabed and adapted to store hydrocarbons. At least one fluid channel is included which...
6782950 Control wellhead buoy  
The present invention relates to a subsea system for the production of hydrocarbon reserves. More specifically, the present invention relates to a control wellhead bouy that is used in deepwater...
6769376 Transfer conduit system, apparatus, and method  
The present invention relates to systems and methods for prevention of clashing between multiple conduits spaced closely together and to methods of installation of multiple conduits at the same...
6655308 Passive stabilizer for floating petroleum-production systems  
The present invention relates to a passive stabilizer ( 3 ) which is installed in the lower part of a tanker used in floating production systems which make use of a mechanism which enables the...
6631745 Riser pull-in method and apparatus  
An arrangement and pull-in method for fluidly coupling a steel riser to a flowline of a turret on a FSO/FPSO. The riser is pulled into a connector by a pull-in line inside the flowline. A pull-in...
6558215 Flowline termination buoy with counterweight for a single point mooring and fluid transfer system  
A system for floating hydrocarbon production systems such as a FPSO that requires a remote mooring terminal for transferring fluids to shuttle tankers. The system includes a single point mooring...
6453838 Turret-less floating production ship  
The invention consists of a floating production vessel operating on the surface of the sea with two or more risers connected between equipment or wells on the sea floor and the vessel or its...
6435124 Mooring and flowline system  
A seabed flowline is connected to a substantially conventional tanker serving as a floating storage facility by a system comprising a three-leg mooring and a flexible riser. The mooring comprises...
6347598 Uplift spring assembly to compensate for hull deflection at main bearing of a mooring turret  
An uplift spring assembly to compensate for hull deflection at a main bearing of a mooring turret is disclosed. Elastomeric pads are used to react turret uplift because of their properties of large...
6341572 Explosion prevention system for internal turret mooring system  
A method and apparatus for ensuring against explosion of the gaseous atmosphere of a closed chamber, such as the QDCD room of an internal turret of an offshore production and offloading buoy...
6220787 Ship type floating oil production system  
A ship type floating oil production system for access to subsea wells through installation of surface wellheads on a ship type surface vessel on the sea comprises a cylindrical turret moored to a...
6155748 Deep water riser flotation apparatus  
A dual phase riser flotation system contains a number of passive phase buoyancy modules of syntactic foam contained within an outer skin, and a number of active phase buoyancy modules which are...
6041730 Shallow water anchor  
A shallow water anchoring mechanism for a vessel drives an upper arm between a raised position, in which the lower end of a pole is above the bottom of the hull and a lowered position, in which the...
5823121 Spa table  
A new Spa Table for offering a portable table for use in a spa wherein the height of the table is self-adjusting such that the top of the table remains on the surface of the water. The inventive...
5816183 Submerged CALM buoy  
A Catenary Anchor Leg Mooring (CALM) buoy (1) comprises a body (2) with buoyancy, elements (3) for connecting the buoyant body to catenary anchor chains to anchor the body to the seabed, a...
5749758 Vessel for production and/or loading/unloading and transport of hydrocarbons from offshore fields, and/or for carrying out well operations  
A vessel for use in offshore production or transport of hydrocarbons, and/or for loading/unloading of hydrocarbons, and/or for carrying out well operations. The vessel at its forward end is...
5716249 Mooring means  
A mooring system comprises a sheave (12) adapted to be mounted to a base (11) which is located on the sea bed. In one embodiment, a cable (13) received in the sheave (12) is connected at one end to...
5515803 Method and apparatus for mooring a vessel to a submerged mooring element  
A vessel adapted for mooring to a submerged mooring element comprises a water intake formed in a bottom surface of the hull, wherein a mooring area on the hull surrounding the water intake is...
5427046 Subsea conduit structure  
A subsea conduit structure comprising a buoyant column and a conduit which is supported by the buoyant column. The buoyant column is connected to the seabed through an articulation provided near...
5241572 Apparatus for locating a floatable platform  
Apparatus for locating a floatable platform, comprises upstanding support members arranged to be adjacent to an article submerged in a liquid, and extendible members depending from the platform....
5044829 Mooring system  
A mooring system comprising a multiple degree of freedom coupler interconnecting a floatation section and an anchoring section of a dock system. The system also comprises a drawbridge section, a...
4802431 Lightweight transfer referencing and mooring system  
An offshore fluid transfer system is described for transferring fluid between an underwater pipe and a dynamically positioned vessel at the sea surface, which is relatively lightweight and...
4726313 Mooring boats  
Boat mooring devices to secure a boat or other floating object at a relatively fixed location on the surface of a body of water, which allow vertical movement of the boat, or floating object, in...
4721053 Motion compensators and mooring devices  
A compensator for providing resilience in a connection between relatively moveable objects comprises a piston (3) working in a cylinder (2) which is surrounded by a larger coaxial cylinder (1)...
RE32578 Mooring system  
The invention relates to a mooring system, comprising a tanker (1,9,15,22,72,86,104,131) and a device (5,11,20,61,74,95,111,135) having some type of anchor (3,10,23,66,71,68,77,113,140), the tanker...
4655433 Riser tensioning system  
A tensioner (10) is disclosed for use in tensioning connecting lines (16) connecting a marine riser (14) to a floating platform (12). The tensioner (10) is a passive system which incorporates a...
4637335 Offshore hydrocarbon production system  
An offshore hydrocarbon production system is provided, which is of relatively low cost. The system includes a vessel (12) having a platform (24) that allows the vessel to rotate about a vertical...
4604961 Vessel mooring system  
The disclosure describes apparatus for mooring a vessel 10 in unprotected waters. The vessel 10 contains a recess 34 in its hull adapted for receiving a buoyant mooring element 18. The mooring...
4597350 Mooring system and liquid cargo transfer facility for ice infested waters  
A mooring and liquid transfer column which is fixed to the floor of an offshore body of water for securing a marine vessel. The column is resiliently retained and cable supported to permit its...
4566824 System for drilling from a water surface, which is insensitive to the swell  
System for drilling from a water surface, of the type having means for exerting and maintaining on the drilling tool a bearing stress, which is constant and normal to the surface to be perforated,...
4543014 Off-shore mooring structure  
A monolithic structure for off-shore mooring composed of a broadened foundation (2) and an emerging vertical structure (1) having a very slender character and a flexural resistance modulus...
4495882 Hawser attachment  
A device for reducing tensile forces occurring in a mooring hawser (2) when a ship, particularly a tanker, is moored to a loading buoy having a rotatable top (11). The hawser is attached to a...
4493283 Floating boat dock anchor  
An anchor which secures a floating boat dock in position and which can be installed and removed easily from the dock for seasonal use. A base is permanently installed on the bottom of a lake and...
4485569 Spud arrangement for a dredge  
An improved working vessel such as a dredger or the like of the type including a working apparatus at one end of the vessel body and a spud serving as a turning shaft member for the vessel body at...
4429655 Single leg terminal  
A single leg mooring terminal is described, of the type which includes a riser extending up from the sea floor to moor a vessel, and a separate fluid conduit extending up from the sea floor to...
4387660 Single point mooring  
The specification discloses a single point mooring for vessels comprising a base member adapted to rest on the ocean bottom, a cross member joined to the base member at one end thereof and a...
4364323 Vertical stressed mooring tether in a floating oil platform  
A floating platform intended to be anchored to the sea bed incorporates a substantially vertical tether. The tether is fitted with a gas-operated tension spring device capable of generating an...
4326312 Single leg mooring terminal  
A single leg mooring terminal is described, of the type which includes a buoy assembly extending from the sea floor to the sea surface to moor a tanker vessel, and a separate fluid conduit...
4320545 Easily removable fluid swivel for SALM buoy installation  
A single anchor leg mooring (SALM) installation which enables replacement of a product distribution unit (PDU) without removal of the upper buoyancy structure, including a plurality of arms that...
4318423 External flowline across a universal joint  
Apparatus by which a fluid can be transported through a conduit from a first body to a second body joined together by a universal joint comprising first and second fluid swivels positioned about...
4286898 Releasable connection  
A releasable connection comprising a first member removably inserted in a second member with space between adjacent opposing surfaces of the members; a solid mass of a material, in the space...
4281614 Connection of the upper end of an ocean upwelling pipe to a floating structure  
Apparatus is provided for connecting to a floating structure the upper end of a pipe assembly disposed substantially vertically in an ocean and the like. The pipe can be an upwelling pipe in an...
4273066 Oil storage vessel, mooring apparatus and oil delivery for the off-shore production of oil  
A method of delivering oil from an off-shore well to the shore is provided which comprises the steps of (a) supplying oil from the well to a floating storage vessel stationed close to the well; and...
4266499 Offshore column with mooring hawser system  
In an apparatus for mooring a vessel offshore comprising an elongated buoyant column pivotally connected at the lower end to a base anchored to a sea floor, the improvement comprising a...
4262380 Buoy including a mooring device  
A mooring device comprising a vessel and a buoy interconnected by an outrigger having a horizontal pivot axis connection with the vessel and a universal joint with the buoy. The buoy has a vertical...
4254522 Single-point mooring buoy  
A single-point mooring buoy comprising a buoyance member which is fashioned as an open basket having at its circumference equidistant, substantially vertical columns with buoyancy capacity, said...
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