The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) has awarded Approval in Principle (AIP) to Samsung Heavy Industries’ (SHI) design for a one-side spread mooring system for a floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) ...

The mooring line can be made up of synthetic fiber rope, wire and chain or a combination of the three. Environmental factors - wind, waves and currents - determine which materials make up the mooring ...

Classification society ABS has awarded an approval in principle to Samsung Heavy Industries for a spread-mooring system design for floating liquefied natural gas facilities, which are increasingly ...

Motivated by a desire to find an alternative to expensive turret systems, Petrobras was keen to extend the use of spread moorings from smaller storage vessels, into the big league of floating ...

An international research group has designed a new mooring system for offshore, coastal floating solar arrays that is claimed to reduce costs of such projects. Compared to the prevalent method of ...

Scientists at the Ocean University of China developed a new methodology to identify optimized mooring models for offshore floating photovoltaic systems deployed in ultra-shallow waters. Their work ...