DUAL BUOY SINGLE POINT MOORING AND FLUID TRANSFER SYSTEM

摘要

An arrangement for providing fluid communication between an offshore hydrocarbon production and/or storage facility (14) and an offshore loading system such as a CALM buoy (16) is disclosed. A pipeline (12) from a FPSO or production platform (14) runs to a submerged flowline termination buoy (18) which is positioned beneath and separated a short distance from a CALM buoy. The flowline termination buoy is separately anchored to the sea bed and is at a depth below the turbulent zone of the sea. The end of the pipeline is suspended from the flowline termination buoy, and a marine hose (20) fluidly connects the end of the pipeline to a stationary part of a fluid swivel (34) on the CALM buoy. The arrangement isolates the end of the pipeline from fatigue inducing motions of the CALM buoy.