A SINGLE-POINT MOORING BUOY FOR LOADING A GAS OR LIQUID INTO OR FROM A SHIP

A single-point mooring buoy for loading a gas or liquid into or from a ship includes a rotatable ring portion for mooring the ship by a rope or chain at a tangent to the ring. The ring rotates about a body portion fixed to the sea bottom and connected to an underwater pipeline by a flexible hose provided with floats of controllable buoyancy so that the hose has an S-shaped or double curvature in a substantially vertical plane below the water surface.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • German Patent Appl. No. 1,963,589 dated June 25, 1970. Netherlands Patent Appl. No. 68,18357 dated June 23, 1970.
• Corporate Authors:

  Shell Internationale Research Maatschappij NV

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• Authors:
  • Westra, S
• Publication Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Offshore terminals; Petroleum; Petroleum terminals; Single point moorings
• Old TRIS Terms: Spm improved conventional
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Marine Transportation; Terminals and Facilities;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00056630
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: American Petroleum Institute
• Report/Paper Numbers: Patent
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 22 1974 12:00AM