1996年5月31日 · The hull structure of the SeaStar mini-TLP. The SeaStar deepwater mini-platform has been developed and tested to provide production and utility platforms for deepwater applications. These new designs combine proven tension-leg platform (TLP) technology with the cost, schedule, and learning curve advantages of marginal field platform designs ...

2006年1月1日 · In this study the experimentally measured motions of a mini-TLP are compared with those computed using COUPLE and alternative predictions based upon quasi-static analysis. The comparisons confirm that COUPLE is able to predict the dynamic interaction between the hull and its tendon and riser systems while the related quasi-static analysis fails.

1999年5月3日 · The Morpeth project is the world's first application of a SeaStar® 1 Mini-TLP and establishes that mono-column TLP's can be used to economically develop deepwater fields. This paper discusses the evolution and development of SeaStar technology and its niche in the deepwater platform market.

2003年4月1日 · The role of mini tension leg platforms (TLP) in oil exploration and production in marginal deepwater fields is becoming increasingly important. SeaStar is a mini TLP that combines the simplicity of a spar and favourable response features of a TLP.

2001年11月30日 · Two of these rigs with new kits are working in the Gulf of Mexico, one for Conoco on the Jolliet tension leg well platform (TLWP) in 1,760 ft water depths on Green Canyon 184, and the other for El Paso Production on its Modec-designed Prince mini-TLP. Both rigs are working triples on the two deepwater platforms.

2010年12月22日 · Mono-column mini TLPs with 1.5MW units for two different water depths, 80m and 200m, are selected as an example. The TLP becomes stiffer both in horizontal- and vertical-plane modes as water depth decreases. As a result, wave-frequency motions and the resulting tendon tensions tend to increase in the 80-m case.

Mini-TLP不是一种简单缩小化的传统类型TLP,它通过对平台上体、立柱以及张力腿系统进行结构上的改进,从而达到优化各项参数、以更小吨位获得更大载荷的目标。

1996年5月6日 · This paper describes a small Tension Leg Platform, the Mini TLP, that is configured as an unmanned wellhead platform to support dry trees and minimum topside facilities. The concept has been developed as part of an ongoing process to reduce the overall cost of offshore developments in deep water.

2005年3月7日 · Mini TLP combines the simplicity of a spar and favorable response features of a TLP. In this paper, the results of a detailed experimental and numerical investigation of the coupled dynamic behavior of a mini TLP are reported with special attention to hull-tether coupling.

1999年6月30日 · The face of deepwater floaters is changing, driven by oil price weakness, cost cutting, and the pursuit of early production. What has been called a mini-TLP (tension leg platform) may join the versatile Spar design as the production workhorse for deepwater. The anthem of these new designs seems to be "less is more."