Technology
Assessment & Research (TA&R) Program
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Project
Number |
194 |
| Date of Summary |
March 31, 1995 |
| Subject |
Calibration of Mooring Design
Code for Floating Drilling and Production Platforms |
| Performing Activity |
Nobel Denton and Associates |
| Principal Investigator |
Mr. David W. Smith |
| Contracting Agency |
U.S. Naval Civil Engineering
Laboratory |
| Estimated Completion |
Complete |
| Description |
The goal of this
project was to perform a review of
mooring design codes by The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS), The American Petroleum
Institute (API), Bureau Veritas, Det Norske Veritas (DNV), The Health and Safety Executive
(HSE) (subject to the draft code being made available by the U.K. Health and Safety
Executive for use by this project), Lloyds Register of Shipping, The Norwegian Maritime
Directorate (NMD), and the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate. The scope of the review included: design environmental conditions, methods of analysis, assumptions, special
considerations, and moored design criteria. |
| Progress |
Complete |
Reports |
AA
(9 pages; 586 KB)
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Review of Mooring Codes,
Guidelines on Positioning Systems for MOU, Task 1 Progress Report, submitted by Noble
Denton and Associates, Inc., Houston, Texas, September 10, 1993. |
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AB
(66 pages; 1,416 KB)
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Mooring Load Estimation
Uncertainty, Task 2 Progress Report, submitted by Noble Denton and Associates, Inc.,
Houston, Texas, September 10, 1993. |
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AC
(116 pages; 8,553 KB)
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Deterministic Comparisons of
Mooring Codes for Temporary Mooring Systems, Task 3 Progress Report, submitted by Noble
Denton and Associates, Inc., Houston, Texas, September 10, 1993. |
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