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DUTCH OFFSHORE REVIEW

Connecting Kaombo ? xed, through a mooring system, while the rolling, pitching and

FPSOs and the single point mooring systems heaving vessel is able to swivel or weathervane around it. Designs that connect them to the reserves they produce are in? uenced by water depth and the marine environment, which are Bluewater’s business. Elaine Maslin speaks drive the mooring spread and loads the turret has to accommo- date, as well as the production system – how many riser slots are to senior project manager Jeroen de Werd about required, type of ? uids, injection requirements, etc. – and ever more turret design and the Kaombo project. stringent regulations and operator requirements.

The heart of the system is the swivel stack, which enables the his year, Dutch ? oating production specialist Bluewater is past transfer of liquids and gases from the risers onto the vessel, via a mid-way through building its two, largest ever turret systems, circular process manifold ? xed to the turret and an access structure

T the 85m-high internal turret systems for Total’s twin ? oating produc- ? xed to the vessel, as well as providing a conduit for power, controls, tion system Kaombo development o