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    1 © Subsea7 - 2023 subsea7.

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    Mooring System

    AGENDA: Overview

    Mooring Configurations

    Loading Mechanism of Moored Floaters

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    Overview
    • Primarily for station keeping of floating structures within a
    specified tolerance; offset limit determined from riser
    configuration.

    • Requirement: Maintain the position of floating structures


    under extreme loading conditions & ensure survivability.

    • Consists of freely hanging lines connecting surface


    platforms to the seabed by means of anchors/piles.

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    Mooring Configurations
    Spread Mooring

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    Mooring Configurations
    Spread Mooring:
    • Sensitive to direction of environmental loading;
    generally, positions the vessel bow fixed in the heading
    of predominant environmental loads.

    • Conventional & widely adopted for ship-shaped floaters.

    • Far less mechanical complications and thus cheaper than


    turrets

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    Mooring Configurations
    Turret mooring

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    Mooring Configurations
    Turret mooring:
    • Single Point Mooring (SPM) primarily applied to ship-
    shaped floaters; can be internal or external

    • Compliant to avoid excessive forces on the platform;


    allows vessels to weathervane

    • Minimizes muti-directional environmental loading on the


    vessel by heading into the prevailing weather.

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    Mooring Configurations
    Turret mooring

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    Loading Mechanism of Moored Floaters
    Excitation forces for any specific site condition result
    from
    • Current; assumed constant but varies spatially with
    WD depending on profile & direction.

    • Wind loading; generally assumed constant but


    responses can vary due to gusting

    • Wave forces; results in time-varying vessel motions


    in 6 dof (surge, sway, heave, roll, pitch & yaw).
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    Loading Mechanism of Moored Floaters
    Floating vessel damping force contributors include:

    • Wind damping from frictional drag between fluid


    (air) & the vessel.

    • Viscous flow damping due to relative motion


    between the hull & fluid giving rise to Drag forces.

    • Wave drift damping on vessel hull resulting from


    changes in vessel drift velocity.
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    Mooring Configurations

    Mooring System Modelling

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    Loading Mechanism of Moored Floaters
    Typical mooring designs seek to optimize the response of
    mooring systems such that:
    • Excursions of the host remain within allowable flexible riser
    offsets

    • Ensure that line tensions are within allowable values

    • Requires considerable iterations to optimize system for a


    particular site-specific condition

    • Potential consequent uncertainties result in line damping &


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    tension predictions © Subsea7 - 2023 subsea7.com
    Mooring Design Constraints
    Symmetric spread of mooring lines generally simple in terms of
    design, asymmetric spreads may be required to
    optimize performance.

    Class rules & Industry Recommended Practices specify mooring


    design requirements
    • API RP 2SK; define acceptance criteria for mooring tension,
    offset, anchor dynamic FoS, chain corrosion allowances, etc
    • Certification rules (DNV 2001) provide guidance on mooring
    related issues with emphasis on catenary analysis (chain-
    wire, etc)
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    Mooring Design Constraints
    Criteria needing to be considered include
    • Directionality of weather – e.g., if storms approach from a
    specific weather window, it may be advantageous to bias
    mooring towards balancing associated forces.
    • Field architecture – spatial layout of subsea equipment &
    adjoining pipelines may restrict the positioning of lines and
    anchors.
    • Riser systems – avoiding the potential clashing of risers with
    mooring lines may impose limitations online positioning.
    • Geo-hazards – presence of gas chimneys are to be avoided in
    sighting mooring.
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    Design Analysis
    Design analysis methodology covers
    • Static design

    • Quasi-Static design

    • Dynamic design

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    Static Design
    Initial analyses stage of mooring system concept design
    • Determines the equilibrium between constant or mean
    environmental loads & the line restoring forces

    • Establish load/excursion characteristics for single line or


    mooring spread ignoring fluid forces on the line

    • Ensures that line tensions are within allowable values

    • Utilizes the catenary lines algorithm to calculate forces


    exerted on the vessel
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