Taking Advantage of Benign Metocean Conditions to Provide Surface Trees on Barges as Alternate to TLPs or Deep Draft Floaters

摘要

The paper will present different versions of barge concepts with surface trees from the smallest unit "The Wellhead Barge - WHBcircleR" supporting only surface trees and completion rig, to the largest unit "The Multifunction Barge - MFBcircleR", an FPSO with surface trees and drilling facilities.