Butt joint octagonal frustum type floating production storage and offloading system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9802682-B2
Application number	US-201314416464-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 3, 2013
Priority date	Oct 15, 2012
Publication date	Oct 31, 2017
Grant date	Oct 31, 2017

Abstract

A butt joint octagonal frustum type floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) system, wherein a floating body is provided with an upper structural body in an octagonal frustum shape and a lower structural body in a regular octagonal frustum shape; in a combined state, a smaller bottom surface of the upper structural body is fixedly connected with a smaller bottom surface of the lower structural body, to form a junction surface; the axis of the upper structural body and the axis of the lower structural body are positioned on the same straight line; the larger bottom of the upper structural body acts as an upper deck of the floating structure and the larger bottom of the lower structural body acts as a lower plate underwater of the floating structure; the junction surface is a full-load waterplane of the floating structure.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A butt joint octagonal frustum type floating production storage and offloading system, comprising:
an upper structural body in a regular octagonal frustum shape;
a lower structural body in a regular octagonal frustum shape,
wherein the upper structural body and the lower structural body are connected through their respective smaller bases at a junction plane to form a floating structure, and an axis of the upper structural body and an axis of the lower structural body are aligned,
wherein the upper structural body comprises an upper hull, a center compartment I disposed inside the upper hull that has a same height as that of said upper structural body, and a plurality of watertight compartments disposed between the upper hull and the center compartment I,
wherein the lower structural body comprises a lower hull, a center compartment II that has a same height as that of said lower structural body, and a plurality of watertight compartments disposed between the lower hull and the center compartment II,
wherein a larger base of the upper structural body serves as a deck and a larger base of the lower structure body serves as a bottom of the floating structure,
wherein the center compartment I and the center compartment II are hollow and are connected to form a straight shaft extending vertically through the floating structure from the larger base of the upper structural body to the larger base of the lower structural body, and
wherein floating production storage and offloading system further comprises a plurality of support pillars disposed about an exterior surface of the floating structure, wherein an upper end of a support pillar is fixedly attached to the upper structural body at an upper attach point and a lower end of the support pillar is fixedly attached to the lower structural body at a lower attach point, and each individual support pillar and the axis of the floating structure are located in a same plane.

2. The butt joint octagonal frustum type floating production storage and offloading system according to claim 1 , further comprising: an annular side plate attached to an outer surface of said lower structural body.

3. The butt joint octagonal frustum type floating production storage and offloading system according to claim 1 , wherein all of the plurality of support pillars are of a same length, and all upper attach points are located in an upper plane and all lower attach points are located in a lower plane, wherein two adjacent support pillars form two sides in an imaginary isosceles triangle.

4. The butt joint octagonal frustum type floating production storage and offloading system according to claim 1 , wherein the floating structure has a double-hull structure.

5. The butt joint octagonal frustum type floating production storage and offloading system according to claim 1 , further comprising: a production module and a life module disposed on the deck,
wherein the life module is disposed on one side of the deck and comprises a life and office building and a helicopter deck positioned above the life and office building,
the production module comprises a main generator module and a heat station module which are located in a center portion of the deck,
a water treatment module and an oil and gas processing module disposed on another side of the deck away from the life module, and
a flare tower disposed between the water treatment module and the oil and gas processing module, and
a crane disposed by the life module.

6. The butt joint octagonal frustum type floating production storage and offloading system according to claim 1 , further comprising a multi-point mooring system outside the floating structure.

7. The butt joint octagonal frustum type floating production storage and offloading system according to claim 1 , wherein one or more of the watertight compartments is an inner compartment adjacent to the center compartment I or the center compartment II and serves as an oil storage compartment, or an outer compartment disposed between the inner compartment and the upper or lower hull.

Assignees

• Univ Dalian Tech

Inventors

• Huang Yi
• Wang Wenhua
• Yao Yuxin
• Liu Gang
• Zhang Qi
• Li Hongxia
• Chen Jingjie
• Zhai Gangjun

Classifications

• B63B1/04

  with single hull · CPC title

• B63B29/02

  Cabins or other living spaces; Construction or arrangement thereof · CPC title

• B63B21/50

  Anchoring arrangements {or methods} for special vessels, e.g. for floating drilling platforms or dredgers · CPC title

• B63B35/50

  Vessels or floating structures for aircraft (aircraft carriers B63G11/00; flying-boat hulls, other flotation means for aircraft B64) · CPC title

• B63B1/041

  with disk-shaped hull · CPC title