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turret anchored to the seabed via 3x3 composite wire/chain legs attached
to piles. The arrangement allows the FPSO to weathervane freely through
360 deg around the turret in response to varying weather and tidal
conditions. This provides a passive mooring system, enabling the FPSO to
be retained on station without any aid from thrusters or external sources.
However, a single azimuth thruster is fitted to facilitate offloading
operations and minimize green-water conditions.
The main components of the mooring system are the mooring lines, which
are secured to anchor piles. The mooring lines are grouped in 3 bundles.
The bundles are spaced 120 degrees apart and the mooring lines within a
bundle have a relative spacing of 2 degrees.
The turret system performs four main functions in a typical FPSO:
There are four main interfaces separating the turret system from the
vessel, important from a safety and operational standpoint as they are
both points of load and/or hydrocarbon transfer. They are:
loading. The vessel structure adjacent to the turret cavity can encounter
significant ovality and severe loads and therefore is prone to development
of cracking.
The complication of the technique makes it technically one of the most
exhilarating field of engineering..