Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of constructing an offshore structure, and offshore structure
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Application No.: US15326245Application Date: 2014-09-25
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Publication No.: US10377450B2Publication Date: 2019-08-13
- Inventor: Takuju Nakamura
- Applicant: MODEC, INC.
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: MODEC, INC.
- Current Assignee: MODEC, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP
- Priority: JP2014-146734 20140717
- International Application: PCT/JP2014/075360 WO 20140925
- International Announcement: WO2016/009572 WO 20160121
- Main IPC: B63B35/44
- IPC: B63B35/44 ; B63B35/00 ; B63B22/20 ; B63B27/08 ; B63B27/36 ; B63B9/06 ; F03D13/25 ; B63B21/20 ; B63B21/50

Abstract:
An offshore structure is separated into an upper structure and a lower structure. Part or whole of the lower structure is kept in an upright standing state in water. The upper structure is moved to above the lower structure kept in the upright standing state. A uniting step includes one or both of raising the lower structure to arrange the lower structure on a lower side of the upper structure and lowering the upper structure to arrange the upper structure on an upper side of the lower structure by submerging part of a carrier vessel on which the upper structure is mounted while being held by a pair of arm-shaped structures of the carrier vessel and integrating the lower structure with the upper structure. In this way, an offshore structure is moored safely at an offshore installation site without using a crane vessel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170197690A1 METHOD OF CONSTRUCTING AN OFFSHORE STRUCTURE, AND OFFSHORE STRUCTURE Public/Granted day:2017-07-13
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