ARTICULATED MARINE STRUCTURE WITH PREPOSITIONED ANCHORING PILES

摘要

The invention relates to a marine structure for use in an offshore body of water where piling is required to hold the structure in place. It relates in particular to a floatable marine structure which is sufficiently buoyant to be floated to an offshore working site carrying a plurality of positioning piles thereon. At the site at least a part of the structure is ballasted to sink to the ocean floor, the prepositioned piles are thereafter sequentially driven into the substratum.