P53 Turret - A Unique Design of Its Own Class

摘要

A Floating Production Unit (FPU) is utilized as a hub to collect, process and export the produced oil and gas from the Marlim Leste Field, located in the Campos basin, offshore Brazil. This particular FPU, named P53, is a turret moored converted VLCC tanker. Once operational, the turret mooring system will be the largest in the world serving a total of 75 risers, including umbilicals. The paper describes the process and special considerations given to the development of the world's largest turret mooring system. A succinct description of the turret and the key challenges are presented. The design serves as a model for the development of future large number of remote satellite wells and fields using ship shaped floaters.