Engineers’ Design Guide to Deepwater Fibre Moorings

This unique reference is the result of a joint industry project coordinated by Noble Denton in conjunction with TTI and supported by a membership of over thirty key contributors to this important ‘leading edge’ technology. These include Oil Companies, Classification Societies, Design Contractors, Rope manufacturers, Installation Contractors and Fibre producers. It provides vital practical guidance and instructions on all issues that need to be considered and the calculations necessary for the design and analysis of fibre rope mooring systems. Participating members are as below; Aker Marine a.s. Akzo Nobel b.v. Allied Signal Performance Fibres Amerada Hess Limited American Bureau of Shipping American Group - Samson Division Bluewater Engineering b.v. BP Exploration Operating Company UK Bridon Fibres Bureau Veritas Chevron Det Norske Veritas DSM High Performance Fibres B.V. Elf Enterprise Caledonia Exxon (EPRCo) Hoechst Celanese Corp. Le Lis Lloyds Register of Shipping Marlow Ropes Maersk Supply Service Norsk Hydro Petrobras Quintas and Quintas Rockwater Ltd Saga Petroleum a.s. ScanRope a/s Shell (A/S Norske Shell) Single Buoy Moorings Smit Engineering B.V. Statoil

Subjects covered include;

• rope material properties
• terminations
• design criteria
• moorings analysis method
• installation
• certification
• discard criteria. A detail design practice document plus full engineering commentary and worked examples covering a variety of applications, water depths and spreads is provided with appendices of yarns, ropes, terminations and their manufacturers. If you need to know about deepwater mooring then this report, which has cost ¼ million pounds ($425,000) and taken 3 years to prepare, is essential.