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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2002
Denis Marchand, Versailles, FR;
Catherine Jouanneaux, Dampierre en Yvelines, FR;
Christophe Prat, Paris, FR;
Bouygues Offshore, Montigny le Bretonneux, FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a liquefied gas storage barge in the form of a concrete floating structure. The barge of the invention is essentially constituted by a floating structure ( ) of reinforced and prestressed concrete containing tanks ( ) for liquefied gas. Said tanks ( ) are cylindrical tanks each having a cross-section perpendicular to its longitudinal axes that comprises a preferably circular curved portion ( ) corresponding to the bottom of said tank, said portion being preferably a bottom half-circumference resting directly on the concrete bottom of the barge, which barge bottom is in the form of adjacent part-cylindrical troughs ( ), each part-cylindrical trough having the same preferably circular, partially curved section in register with the bottom of each tank.