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Project Number 216
Date of Summary March 31, 1995
Subject SPAR Development Model Test Program
Performing Activity Deep Oil Technology, Inc.
Principal Investigator Mr. John Halkyard
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Estimated Completion Complete
Description This is a Joint Industry Project (JIP). The purpose of this project was to verify engineering designs for deep water SPAR drilling, production and storage systems. SPAR is a large, stable, deep draft, cylindrical floating caisson designed to support drilling and production operations. The SPAR can store produced oil if needed. Wave tank testing was done at as large a scale as possible to verify engineering design calculations for SPAR. Emphasis was placed on confirming the slowly varying second order responses which dominated the global surge and pitch motions of the SPAR.
Progress Complete

Reports
AA (31 pages)  File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). Design and Regulatory Considerations of SPAR Buoy Based Floating Production System, Report n. OED 9550, submitted by ABS Americas, Houston, Texas, June 1995.
AB (394 pages)  File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). SPAR Model Test Joint Industry Project, Final Report, Vol. 1, submitted by the Offshore Technology Research Center, College Station, Texas, June 1995.
AC (351 pages)  File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). Spar Model Test Joint Industry Project-Final Report, submitted by Deep Oil Technology, Inc., Irvine, California, September, 1995.

 

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