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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2011
Michael Y. H. Luo, Bellaire, TX (US);
Zhengquan Zhou, Houston, TX (US);
Joseph M. Gebara, Houston, TX (US);
Michael Y. H. Luo, Bellaire, TX (US);
Zhengquan Zhou, Houston, TX (US);
Joseph M. Gebara, Houston, TX (US);
Technip France, Courbevoie, FR;
Abstract
The present disclosure provides an improved design for a multi-sectional truss spar hull platform having a truss and a spar hull. One or more sections can be transported to a designated location and off-loaded into water from an available transport vessel. The truss includes a skirt tank at the upper end of truss that can be coupled to the lower end of the hull. The skirt tank can provide buoyancy during float-off and mating operations to the hull. The skirt tank is designed to allow the portion above the water to be coupled to the hull in a first orientation, the truss with the skirt tank rotated with the hull in the water to a second orientation to expose the previously underwater portion, and then the previously underwater portion can be coupled together above the water. The integral skirt tank will be flooded after the spar hull is up-ended.