Mooring apparatus and method of installation for deep water tension leg platform

摘要

Apparatus for attaching a floating tension leg platform (20) to an anchoring base template (36) on the subsea floor (26) includes an external mooring porch (48) for each tendon (46), the porches being mounted on the outside surfaces of the platform's columns (30). The number of porches may exceed the number of columns by a factor of at least two or three.