Abstract
A draft "API Recommended Practice for Design, Analysis, and Maintenance of Mooring for Floating Production Systems" was developed recently by the API Task Group on Mooring Design for Floating Structures. This document is closely related to API RP-2P, "Recommended Practice for the Analysis of Spread Mooring Systems for Floating Drilling Units." because both documents address mooring of floating units. However, this document is also different in many ways from API RP-2P because there are significant differences between a floating drilling mooring system and a floating production mooring system. Major differences of this document from API RP-2P are:The design environment is significantly more severe.Dynamic instead of quasistatic mooring analysis is recommended; tension limits are relaxed.Guidelines for thruster-assisted mooring are included.Fatigue analysis is required. In the course of developing the Draft RP, the API Task Group has done some fundamental work to establish a rational design practice for FPS mooring systems. This paper highlights the new design practice, presents its basis, and points out areas where future work is needed.
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