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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 02, 1997
Earl Howard Doyle, Jr., Sugar Land, TX (US);
David Armstrong Huete, Spring, TX (US);
Richard Garside, Kenner, LA (US);
Dale Richard Snyder, Houston, TX (US);
Earl Howard Doyle, Jr., Sugar Land, TX (US);
David Armstrong Huete, Spring, TX (US);
Richard Garside, Kenner, LA (US);
Dale Richard Snyder, Houston, TX (US);
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of installing a foundation system for securing the tendons of a TLP to the ocean floor. The foundation system is installed in templateless operations in which a pile is secured to the ocean floor and a tendon receptacle is secured to the pile such that the load from a tendon secured therein is transferred to the ocean floor through coaxially aligned load paths of tendon-to-tendon receptacle-to-pile-to-ocean floor.