Fotnote: A/S Norske Shell (September 1987), PDO, chapter 4.3.1. This was rendered necessary by the realisation that the field would remain on stream beyond the 20 years specified in the plan for development and operation (PDO). It was installed about three kilometres from the production platform, and was connected to the latter by two 16-inch flow lines.Īs early as six years after oil production began, however, Shell began to seek a replacement for the FLP which guaranteed a longer working life. This topside structure accounted for about 350 tonnes of the total weight of the floating loading platform (FLP), which came to 4 100 tonnes.
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In addition came a small instrument room, a generator room, a workshop container and so forth, plus a helideck and loading boom for connecting to the loading system in the shuttle tanker bows. Thirty metres of the column was visible above the sea and carried a rotatable topside containing a modest living quarters (for emergency overnight accommodation). The buoy comprised a 100-metre-high cylindrical column with a maximum diameter of 8.6 metres, to be moored in 250 metres of water with the aid of six anchors. Fotnote: Dagens Næringsliv,, “Aker Verdal bygger lastebøye til Draugen”. This NOK 345 million contract represented a collaboration between the yard, concrete platform builder Norwegian Contractors and Switzerland’s Single Buoy Moorings Inc (SBM). It became clear on that Aker Verdal was to build the first loading buoy which would ensure that oil from Draugen could be exported via shuttle tankers.
© Norsk Oljemuseum Construction and installation Lastesystemene ikke helt problemfrie, engelsk, The shuttle tanker Marie Knutsen loading crude from the loading buoy at Draugen.
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