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Offshore Structure and Design
Published in Shashi Shekhar Prasad Singh, Jatin R. Agarwal, Nag Mani, Offshore Operations and Engineering, 2019
Shashi Shekhar Prasad Singh, Jatin R. Agarwal, Nag Mani
Ship-shaped floating production, storage, and offloading systems (FPSOs) are made from converted tankers or newly constructed ships. They are moored with rope and chain. Similar to FPSs, FPSOs have no drilling capability. They process production from subsea wells and store large crude oil volumes for subsequent transport by shuttle tankers. A variation, floating storage and offloading (FSO) system, receives processed oil from nearby platform FPSs and stores it for subsequent transport by shuttle tankers. (These units are often referred to as floating storage units [FSU]). An FPS and FSO/FSU are collectively equivalent to an FPSO. Water depths present no limitation to FPSOs and FSOs. Cylindrical-hull FPSOs have double-bottom, double-sided hulls with enough ballast to maintain their position in safe conditions.
A Comparison of Loading Conditions Effects on the Vertical Motions of Turret-Moored FPSO
Published in Adam Weintrit, Tomasz Neumann, Safety of Sea Transportation, 2017
S.A. Erkurtulmus, E. Peşman, H. Copuroglu
A floating, production, storage and offloading units (FPSO) system for offshore oil and gas production employs a custom-built ship or tanker with structural modifications. It is equipped with hydrocarbon processing equipment for separation and treatment of crude oil, water and gases, arriving on board from sub-sea oil wells via flexible pipelines. FPSOs were found to be viable production systems that can withstand the harsh environment offshore Gulf of Mexico (Wichers et al. 2001).
Analysis of FPSO accident and incident data
Published in C. Guedes Soares, Y. Garbatov, Progress in the Analysis and Design of Marine Structures, 2017
U. Bhardwaj, A.P. Teixeira, C. Guedes Soares
Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) unit is the dominant floating production system for offshore oil and gas fields. FPSOs are effective development solutions for both deep-water and ultra-deep-water fields and their main advantage is the ability to store and process the hydrocarbons.
Wave-free characteristic of heave motion response for new sandglass-type model
Published in Ships and Offshore Structures, 2018
Wen-Hua Wang, Ya-Zhen Du, Lin-Lin Wang, Yi Huang
With ocean oil and gas exploration and production gradually expanding towards the deep sea, floating, production, storage and offloading unit (FPSO) will own wide and good application prospects (Ma et al. 2013; Zhang et al. 2013). But traditional ship-type FPSO exhibits some performance shortcomings (Wang and Feng 2011; Wu 2012). Therein, the traditional ship-type floating body is extremely sensitive to the wave direction. Next, with the complicated environment and single point mooring system, the FPSO would be usually in the oblique (beam) sea, which may result in poor heave and roll performances. Hence, the cylindrical FPSO is taken to solve the above shortcomings. However, it is a pity that sometimes the natural period of heave motion for the cylindrical floating body is still in the centralised area of wave energy and thus the heave motion response would be large. Therefore, based on the performance advantage of wave-free structures, a new concept of floating body with an innovative sandglass-type shape was presented by Huang et al. (2015, 2016) and Wang et al. (2016a, 2016b) to solve the performance limitations of traditional ship-type and cylindrical FPSOs.
On design criteria for a disconnectable FPSO mooring system associated with expected life-cycle cost
Published in Ships and Offshore Structures, 2018
José Manuel Cabrera-Miranda, Patrícia Mika Sakugawa, Rafael Corona-Tapia, Jeom Kee Paik
Floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) systems are a proven technology for the development of deep offshore oil fields. Some FPSOs with single-point mooring systems (SPMs) can be disconnected to avoid extreme environmental loads, sail toward sheltered areas and restart operations when the weather becomes benign. Disconnectable systems have several advantages such as lowering design loads, reducing risk to asset damage, making the production of lost infrastructure autonomous and eliminating the need of helicopter evacuations (Daniel et al. 2013). However, complex mechanisms are required for disconnection and reconnection (Shimamura 2002).
Physical ergonomics awareness in an offshore processing platform among Malaysian oil and gas workers
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2020
M. Hafizul Hilmi M. Noor, Raja Ariffin Raja Ghazilla
The Floating, Production, Storage, and Offloading (FPSO) unit is a unique offshore installation design, which is built by the combination of modularized platform structures with vertical stacking decks. Personnel access occasionally involves more movement between different modules (horizontal movement) and between decks within the same module (vertical movement), due to improper design configuration such as an extreme valve location and a disorganized materials handling system [16].