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Calibration of Mooring Design Code for Floating Drilling and Production Platforms

Office/Division Program
TAP
Project Number
194
Research Initiation Date (Award Date)
Research Performing Activity
Nobel Denton and Associates
Research Principal Investigator
Mr. David W. Smith
Research Contracting Agency
Description

The goal of this project was to perform a review of mooring design codes by The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), The American Petroleum Institute (API), Bureau Veritas, Det Norske Veritas (DNV), The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) (subject to the draft code being made available by the U.K. Health and Safety Executive for use by this project), Lloyds Register of Shipping, The Norwegian Maritime Directorate (NMD), and the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. The scope of the review included: design environmental conditions, methods of analysis, assumptions, special considerations, and moored design criteria.

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