As described in Chapter 1, the general arrangement and layout of ship-shaped offshore units designed for oil and gas operations may be grouped into several major parts: hull structures including ...

The symmetrical arrangement of anchors helps to keep the ship on its fixed heading location. The spread mooring system does not allow the vessel to weathervane, which means to rotate in the ...

DESCRIPTION: The Dynacon Mooring Spooler (DMS) is a mobile, self-contained winch system that can be installed on ships of opportunity. The system is designed to deploy, tow, and recover terminal ...

Mooring ropes and wire ropes are utilized to steady a ship or offshore platform and ease ventures executed in the offshore ...

That could soon change, however, thanks to a new automated suction-based mooring system. Ordinarily, ships are secured to piers via thick ropes known as mooring lines or hawsers. One end of each ...

The basic design of most FPSOs encompasses a ship-shaped vessel ... tankers or transmitting processed petroleum via pipelines. Moored in place by various mooring systems, FPSOs are effective ...

The Bangladesh Shipping Corporation (BSC) has finally taken step for the disposal of two of its oldest oil tankers, which, ...

The entire 110km pipeline connects the deep-sea mooring point to the refinery. According to officials, the SPM will significantly improve the efficiency of fuel offloading, reducing the time required ...

The ship was carrying gasoline-blending ... The BPCL has a single-point mooring at Sikka to import crude for its landlocked Bina oil refinery in Madhya Pradesh. Both BPCL and Reliance Industries ...