A single point rigid yoke mooring.

摘要

A mooring for a vessel (1) floating on the surface (22) of a body of water and anchored to the floor (21) of that body of water having a rotary member (28) attached to a tension riser (6), the rotary member (28) being located above the surface of the body of water and being supported by a remotely positioned submerged buoyancy chamber (4) by means of a support structure (5) and two rigid yokes (2, 3) interconnecting the support structure with the integrated buoyancy chamber and the vessel, is disclosed. The support structure (5) is rotational with respect to the tension riser (6) and the rigid yokes (2, 3) are pivotable about horizontal axes at their connection points with the vessel and the support structure with integrated buoyancy chamber. The mooring incorporates means to transfer fluids or gases between a pipeline on the floor of the body of water and the vessel.