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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2011
Tao Wang, Katy, TX (US);
Yijian Zeng, Katy, TX (US);
Tao Wang, Katy, TX (US);
Yijian Zeng, Katy, TX (US);
AKER SOLUTIONS INC., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An offshore floating structure () for the drilling and production of oil and gas includes a generally circular toroidal, hollow pontoon () of substantially the same radial width throughout a perimeter of the pontoon. The offshore floating structure includes a plurality of columns () of substantially a same cross-sectional area, each coupled at a coupling point, on a bottom end thereof to the pontoon at an equidistant point along the perimeter of the pontoon, and adapted to be coupled on a top end to a deck structure. The diameter () from a center of the radial width of the pontoon is greater than a distance () from a center of one column to a center of an adjacent column.