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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2003
Filed:
Aug. 10, 2001
Thomas N. Carr, Sugarland, TX (US);
Cheng-Yo Chen, Houston, TX (US);
Robin M. Converse, Houston, TX (US);
Robert M. Harrell, Sugarland, TX (US);
Daniel M. Houser, Houston, TX (US);
Charles F. Kasischke, Houston, TX (US);
Gautam K. Chaudhury, Houston, TX (US);
SparTec, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method for fabricating sections of a floating offshore spar type structure and mating the sections offshore. A buoyant hard tank is fabricated vertically. The hard tank is then transported in a vertical orientation to a site where it is mated to a truss section of the spar structure offshore while the hard tank and truss section are both in the vertical orientation. The mated tank and truss sections are then towed in the vertical orientation to the operational site. The hard tank is fabricated with a larger diameter and correspondingly shallower draft than a more traditionally proportioned hard tank.