Invention Application
- Patent Title: SYSTEM FOR SUPPLEMENTAL TENSIONING FOR ENHANCED PLATFORM DESIGN AND RELATED METHODS
- Patent Title (中): 用于增强平台设计的补充张紧系统及相关方法
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Application No.: US12909722Application Date: 2010-10-21
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Publication No.: US20120099930A1Publication Date: 2012-04-26
- Inventor: Joe Pallini , Steve Wong , Fife B. Ellis
- Applicant: Joe Pallini , Steve Wong , Fife B. Ellis
- Applicant Address: US TX Houston
- Assignee: VETCO GRAY INC.
- Current Assignee: VETCO GRAY INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Houston
- Main IPC: E02B17/00
- IPC: E02B17/00

Abstract:
Riser management systems, apparatus, and methods to maintain a selected range of tension on a plurality of risers extending between subsea well equipment and a floating vessel, are provided. A riser management system can include a mono-buoyancy can platform operably coupled to a plurality of risers extending between subsea well equipment and a moored floating vessel, and a plurality of tensioner units each connected to a top portion of a separate one of the risers to provide tension to each of the risers. The mono-buoyancy can platform can provide tension to each of the risers sufficient to compensate for a relative vertical offset between the risers and the vessel due to vessel movement, which generally affects each of the risers equally, within tolerances, while the tensioner units can simultaneously provide tension to compensate for one or more additional factors which can affect each riser differently.
Public/Granted literature
- US08540460B2 System for supplemental tensioning for enhanced platform design and related methods Public/Granted day:2013-09-24
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