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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 1987
Filed:
Feb. 14, 1985
Pierre A Beynet, Tulsa, OK (US);
J Thomas von Aschwege, Slidell, LA (US);
Amoco Corporation, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
This invention is an improvement over the simple riser pipe terminator, which has been applied at the mudline and at the platform level, to resist very large stresses in the riser pipes when a vertically moored platform (VMP) or other similarly tethered structure is subjected to wind, tide and current. A second or short terminator is used with the terminator to form a multiterminator which results in the length and weight of the terminator assembly for a given site being greatly reduced from that of the prior art terminator. Thus, the cost of construction of the terminator assembly is drastically reduced with the use of our invention. Also disclosed is a novel bearing arrangement between the structure VMP and the terminator assembly.