Ocean Engineering Equipment and Technology ›› 2015, Vol. 2 ›› Issue (1): 6-6.

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Study on Global Strength of the New Floating Drilling, Production, Storage and Offloading Structure

Jing ZHAO1, Lei LIU1, Fu-hong JIANG1, Zhi-gang YANG1, Bin XIE2, Shi-sheng WANG2, Xi-chong YU2, Jing-rui ZHAO2   

  1. 1. Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Engineering and Research Institute Co., Ltd., Dalian, Liaoning 116021, China
    2. CNOOC Research Institute, Beijing 100028, China
  • Received:2015-01-09 Online:2015-02-20 Published:2016-03-31

Abstract:

Nowadays, the deep water in China is in the early developing stage, and it adapts for floating drilling, production, storage and offloading structure (FDPSO), which integrates the functions of drilling, production and storage. FDPSO can reduce much expense for early development of oil field. In this paper, a new-style eight-square FDPSO is studied. Based on the complex environment in deep water and the load cases, the global structure model is built. According to the three-dimensional potential flow theory and spectra-based analysis method, the wave loads are calculated and design wave parameters are decided. By transferring the design wave loads to global structure model, the structure stress is obtained. The calculation results can provide theoretical reference for the design of FDPSO working in the oil fields of deep water.

Key words: floating drilling,production,storage and offloading structure, design wave method, finite element model, global structural strength

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