Disconnectable tension leg platform for offshore oil production facility
CA 2248578 A1 · Owner: Campbell, Steven · Inventors: Campbell, Steven
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A quick connect/disconnect system for an offshore oil/gas production platform is facilitated by a submerged connection header for the platform. The platform comprises a vessel with a connection bay on vessel bottom. The vessel has the ability to be ballasted to position the connection bay either for, connection or for transport toward and away from the connection header. The connection header houses the production lines and control lines and is positively buoyed and held in place by tension cables extending from the header bottom to the ocean floor. The quick connect/disconnect system comprises couplers for the production lines and control lines and devices for releasably linking the …
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- Filed September 23, 1998. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended September 23, 2018.
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