EP0137625A1 - Transport de structures offshore préfabriquées - Google Patents
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- EP0137625A1 EP0137625A1 EP84305436A EP84305436A EP0137625A1 EP 0137625 A1 EP0137625 A1 EP 0137625A1 EP 84305436 A EP84305436 A EP 84305436A EP 84305436 A EP84305436 A EP 84305436A EP 0137625 A1 EP0137625 A1 EP 0137625A1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
- B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING
- B63B35/00—Vessels or similar floating structures specially adapted for specific purposes and not otherwise provided for
- B63B35/003—Vessels or similar floating structures specially adapted for specific purposes and not otherwise provided for for transporting very large loads, e.g. offshore structure modules
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
- B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING
- B63B21/00—Tying-up; Shifting, towing, or pushing equipment; Anchoring
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- This invention relates to the transport of prefabricated offshore structures, for example drill jackets.
- a drill jacket is an elongated offshore structure made up of a plurality of tubular members with cross bracing.
- the structure is installed by lowering it to rest on the sea bottom.
- the jacket is secured in this position and functions to support a deck unit and hydrocarbon production equipment above the water line.
- the deck unit which usually comprises a flat deck area with a plurality of legs extending downwardly therefrom, provides support for oil drilling and recovery equipment. These components make up an offshore facility.
- Offshore facility components may often be built more economically at fully integrated fabrication yards. However, due to existing favorable conditions at such fabrication yards and the quantity thereof being limited by the cost of building them, such fabrication yards may be located at extreme distances from the final offshore facility locations. The technical and safety risks of long tows, however, make it difficult for these remote yards to
- the fatigue stresses during such transport are increased with higher accelerations during the roll of the transport structure.
- Barges typically have a low period of roll with resulting high accelerations during the roll as compared to a self-propelled sea-going vessel.
- the total fatigue stresses on an offshore structure during a transport of specified length is related to the duration of transport.
- the speed of a barge being towed is typically slow as compared to the speed of a self-propelled sea-going vessel resulting typically in more than twice as many fatigue cycles when an offshore structure is towed by barge.
- a method of loading a prefabricated offshore structure for transport from a fabrication yard adjacent shallow water to a final site for installation comprising:
- the invention also provides a system for transporting a prefabricated offshore structure, the system comprising:
- the invention can be so embodied, as described hereinbelow, as a system and method that can provide one or more of the following advantageous features.
- a system for transporting large bulky prefabricated offshore structures such as, for example, drill jacket 10 utilizing a sea-going self-propelled vessel such as the ship generally designated 12.
- the ship 12 includes a power plant for propulsion as well as ballasting equipment for submerging a mid or well deck 14 to a level which is below the draft of a shallow draft barge 16.
- Ship 12 includes raised forward and aft decks 18 and 20 respectively.
- decks 18 and 20 are provided with a height to remain above the water line and are suitably sized, in accordance with principles of common knowledge to those or ordinary skill in the art to which this invention pertains, to maintain stability and floatation of the vessel while mid deck 14 is submerged to a depth for barge 16 with jacket 10 to be floated over the top of the deck 14.
- a fixed suitable connection means may be provided for securing the barge 16 to vessel 12 such as the at least four point tie-down system illustrated at 24.
- a drill jacket is used as an example herein, this invention is meant to include procedures and apparatus for transporting various other prefabricated offshore structures such as decks or modules.
- a fabrication yard 40 is illustrated adjacent shallow water 42 which is sufficiently deep for shallow draft barge 16, but has insufficient depth for positioning ship 12 for loading of a drill jacket 10 directly onto the ship.
- the drill jacket 10 is discharged from the fabrication yard 40 onto barge 16 which in turn is towed into deep water (that is; water which is sufficiently deep for a sea-going self propelled vessel such as ship 46 shown in Fig. 4) for loading onto ship 46 as will hereinafter be described.
- drill jacket 10 is shown being skidded onto shallow draft barge 16 by means such as portable load-out rails or guides 28.
- Jacket 10 is provided with a plurality of skids 30 which slide along rails 28 and, at the interface between bulkhead 32 and barge 16, onto rails or tracks 34 on the top surface of the barge 16.
- Fig. 3 shows the loading of an offshore drilling platform deck unit 36 onto a barge 16.
- rails 28 and tracks 34 are utilized on which skids slide to support the downwardly extending legs 38 of deck unit 36.
- vessel 46 After it is loaded, barge 16 is floated and vessel 46 is sailed into the positions shown in Fig. 4 in deep water with respect to each other and, as shown in Fig. 5, vessel 46 is ballasted by means such as ballast tanks schematically indicated at 47 to submerge its mid deck 48.
- Vessel 46 includes forward and aft raised decks 50 and 52 respectively suitably sized, in accordance with principles of common knowledge to those of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention pertains, for providing sufficient floatation and for maintaining vessel stability while submerging the mid deck 48 for receiving the barge 16.
- Figs. 6, 7, and 8 show the relative positions of the barge and ship as the two structures are combined to form a single ocean going unit.
- barge -16 is shown floating over the deck 48 which has been submerged to a selected depth sufficient for floating of the barge thereover.
- the vessel 46 is then deballasted to raise, the deck 48 above the water line and raise barge 16 with its drill jacket load 10.
- the vessel 46 should preferably be sufficiently large and stable to support the barge and oversized load during typical rough seas and weather conditions, and such sizing can be determined utilizing principles of common knowledge to those of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention pertains.
- the height of the offshore structure above the water level is less than the overall height of the barge. This is illustrative of the height of the offshore structure during a typical tow by barge.
- the offshore structure loaded barge is loaded onto the ship as shown in Fig. 8
- the height of the offshore structure above the water is increased so that its height is greater than the overall barge height so that the offshore structure may be disposed higher than and thus out of the way of the waves during rougher seas to thus minimize risk of damage to the offshore structure.
- Figs. 9 and 10 show the orientation of barge 16 on the vessel.
- tie-down connections between the barge 16 and vessel 46 are disconnected, vessel 46 is reballasted to float barge 16 which can then be easily towed away from vessel 46 and to the desired location for launching jacket 10.
- Fig. 11 shows the barge 16 specially outfitted with a pivot support 54 for launching the jacket 10.
- jacket 10 is slid rearwardly on barge 16 so that its center of gravity moves onto support 54.
- a deck unit 36 can be off-loaded from barge 16 using a crane 56 mounted on a derrick or construction barge 58 which is anchored at the offshore site: see Figs. 12 and 13. With jacket 10 already in place, crane 56 is utilized to lift deck 36 from barge 16 and lower it onto the top of jacket 10.
- the maximum height of the vessel and barge system is equal to the height illustrated at 15 of the top surface 22 of the barge 16 when the barge is disposed on the well deck 14.
- all deck houses and other structures on forward and aft decks 18 and 20 have a height no higher than the supporting surfaces 22 on top of barge 16 which support lower segments of jacket 10.
- the elongated jacket 10 can extend beyond the length of barge 16 and over the forward and aft decks 18 and 20 and may extend beyond the forward and aft ends of the vessel.
- deck supports 26 may also be provided on forward and aft decks 18 and 20 respectively for supporting the overhanging portions of jacket 10 to further reduce stresses experienced by the jacket during rough sea conditions.
- a vessel and barge system embodying the present invention may comprise, for example, a sea going vessel 12 of about 320 m (1050 feet) in length with a mid deck 14 of about 213 m (700 feet) in length.
- Mid deck 14 may be approximately 53 to 69 m (175 to 225 feet) wide.
- Such a size may be provided by a converted tanker having a dry weight tonnage of 230,000.
- a 198 m (650 foot) barge 16 having a width of 52 m (170 feet) may be provided to carry a jacket 10 of 40,640 tonnes (40,000 tons).
- Such a combined structure may deliver the jacket at a cruising speed of about 7.2 m/s (14 knots) or more.
- the shallow draft barge 16 may operate in as little as 7.6 m (25 feet) of water for loading of a drill jacket at a fabrication yard near shallow water.
- an offshore structure may be prefabricated at a fabrication yard near shallow water and then provided with quick, safe, and reliable transportation over an ocean.
- one or more barges such as the two barges 60 and 61 illustrated in Fig. 14 are positioned on the well deck 62 of the vessel 64 to extend entirely across the well deck 62 and beyond each side 66 thereof. That is, the barges 60 and 61 extend in a direction cross-wise to the vessel length and their ends 67 overhang the sides 66 of the vessel to provide the capacity for carrying two smaller offshore structures 68 and 70 such as jackets, decks, or modules instead of one such stucture.
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
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US52207083A | 1983-08-10 | 1983-08-10 | |
US522070 | 1983-08-10 |
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EP0137625A1 true EP0137625A1 (fr) | 1985-04-17 |
EP0137625B1 EP0137625B1 (fr) | 1987-09-30 |
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EP (1) | EP0137625B1 (fr) |
JP (1) | JPS6175090A (fr) |
KR (1) | KR850001878A (fr) |
BR (1) | BR8404004A (fr) |
DE (1) | DE3466507D1 (fr) |
ES (2) | ES535016A0 (fr) |
IN (1) | IN160785B (fr) |
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WO2003086852A1 (fr) * | 2002-04-10 | 2003-10-23 | Itrec B.V. | Navire submersible |
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CN109372275A (zh) * | 2018-12-17 | 2019-02-22 | 北京城建集团有限责任公司 | 一种高空轻型附着格构式吊臂装置及其施工方法 |
CN115123463A (zh) * | 2022-07-05 | 2022-09-30 | 上海外高桥造船有限公司 | 一种大型船舶上层建筑的临时海绑结构及其海绑方法 |
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FR1400750A (fr) * | 1964-06-09 | 1965-05-28 | Mitsui Shipbuilding Eng | Procédé pour le chargement et le déchargement d'un cargo de transport de récipients conteneurs ou analogues et cargo pour l'application du procédé précédent ou similaire |
US3399792A (en) * | 1967-04-10 | 1968-09-03 | George W. Chester | Loading barges onto ships using drydocks |
US3508514A (en) * | 1966-04-04 | 1970-04-28 | Vienna Arthur W | Cargo ships |
US4086777A (en) * | 1976-12-13 | 1978-05-02 | Standard Oil Company (Indiana) | Apparatus for launching battered leg jackets for offshore platforms |
FR2508410A1 (fr) * | 1981-06-26 | 1982-12-31 | Wijsmuller Bv | Navire de transport d'objets flottants ou non avec emplacement de lest et stabilisateurs mobiles pour faciliter le chargement |
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- 1984-08-09 EP EP84305436A patent/EP0137625B1/fr not_active Expired
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- 1984-08-09 ES ES535016A patent/ES535016A0/es active Granted
- 1984-08-09 KR KR1019840004761A patent/KR850001878A/ko not_active Application Discontinuation
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FR1400750A (fr) * | 1964-06-09 | 1965-05-28 | Mitsui Shipbuilding Eng | Procédé pour le chargement et le déchargement d'un cargo de transport de récipients conteneurs ou analogues et cargo pour l'application du procédé précédent ou similaire |
US3508514A (en) * | 1966-04-04 | 1970-04-28 | Vienna Arthur W | Cargo ships |
US3399792A (en) * | 1967-04-10 | 1968-09-03 | George W. Chester | Loading barges onto ships using drydocks |
US4086777A (en) * | 1976-12-13 | 1978-05-02 | Standard Oil Company (Indiana) | Apparatus for launching battered leg jackets for offshore platforms |
FR2508410A1 (fr) * | 1981-06-26 | 1982-12-31 | Wijsmuller Bv | Navire de transport d'objets flottants ou non avec emplacement de lest et stabilisateurs mobiles pour faciliter le chargement |
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WO2003086852A1 (fr) * | 2002-04-10 | 2003-10-23 | Itrec B.V. | Navire submersible |
CN102242544A (zh) * | 2010-05-14 | 2011-11-16 | 中国海洋石油总公司 | 大型导管架滑移下水移动顶推装置 |
CN109372275A (zh) * | 2018-12-17 | 2019-02-22 | 北京城建集团有限责任公司 | 一种高空轻型附着格构式吊臂装置及其施工方法 |
CN109372275B (zh) * | 2018-12-17 | 2023-11-03 | 北京城建集团有限责任公司 | 一种高空轻型附着格构式吊臂装置及其施工方法 |
CN115123463A (zh) * | 2022-07-05 | 2022-09-30 | 上海外高桥造船有限公司 | 一种大型船舶上层建筑的临时海绑结构及其海绑方法 |
CN115123463B (zh) * | 2022-07-05 | 2023-11-14 | 上海外高桥造船有限公司 | 一种大型船舶上层建筑的临时海绑结构及其海绑方法 |
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IN160785B (fr) | 1987-08-01 |
ES545028A0 (es) | 1986-06-01 |
DE3466507D1 (en) | 1987-11-05 |
JPS6175090A (ja) | 1986-04-17 |
ES8607853A1 (es) | 1986-06-01 |
BR8404004A (pt) | 1985-07-16 |
KR850001878A (ko) | 1985-04-10 |
EP0137625B1 (fr) | 1987-09-30 |
ES8601784A1 (es) | 1985-11-16 |
ES535016A0 (es) | 1985-11-16 |
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