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Project Number 315
Date of Summary June 01, 1999
Subject Engineers Design Guide to Deepwater Fiber Moorings
Performing Activity Nobel Denton and Associates
Principal Investigator Dr. Richard Stonor
Contracting Agency Minerals Management Service
Completion Complete
Description The objective of this project was to develop a guideline on the use of fiber ropes for moorings of floating offshore oil and gas facilities. The design guidelines provided the necessary overview of the issues and identified the areas of design and specifications that should be included in the mooring design.

Reports
AA File in Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF). (11,619 KB) JIP-Engineers Design Guide for Deepwater Fibre Moorings: Interim Documents, Noble Denton Europe Ltd., and Tension Technology International.
  


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