Abstract: The current activities in the offshore deep-water development are growing all over the world at an accelerated pace. The definition of deep water is advancing rapidly as these developments are ...

Abstract: The Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) system is a novel application for hydrocarbon production, which is usually designed to stay permanently moored in an offshore, open sea ...

Abstract: The discovery of new fields in deep water brought back the use of large ships such as FPSOs. This seems to be the trend toward ultra deep water units at least in offshore Brazil. At about ...

Abstract: Recent studies on the behavior of the simple free-hanging configuration for flexible risers have shown that, for very deepwater levels, they are reaching their technical and economic limits. ...