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Technology
Assessment & Research (TA&R) Program
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Project
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394 |
| Date of Summary |
April 09, 2002 |
| Subject |
Interim Damage Criteria for
Replacing Damaged Polyester Rope |
| Performing Activity |
Stress Engineering Services, Inc. |
| Principal Investigator |
Ray Ayers |
| Contracting Agency |
Minerals Management Service |
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Completion |
Completed |
| Description |
BP EXPLORATION,
Upstream Technology Group has requested that Stress Engineering Services
(SES), perform a set of tests and analyses to develop an interim criteria
for replacing damaged polyester mooring rope. BP and SES recognize that the
Offshore Technology Research Center (OTRC) is developing a more thorough,
longer-term project on the same subject, funded in part by the Minerals
Management Service (MMS). BP believes it will have Gulf of Mexico
applications for polyester rope taut line mooring systems before a criterion
is available. Toward this end, BP has asked SES to perform a limited number
of tests of damaged smaller-scale (400,000-lb.) rope in order to develop a
criterion that can be used with confidence prior to the availability of the
OTRC effort described above. BP allowed the MMS to purchase the
data from Part A and Part B. |
| Progress |
This effort ties to Project 369 on damage criteria for polyester ropes. It was simply
a purchase from BP to obtain some of their testing data to be used in
project 369. Project is complete and data has been incorporated into Project
369. |
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