The research of mooring system of FPSO and its application

The far-flung ocean has abundant resource and the exploitation area of ocean oil and gas is developing from offshore to deepwater and ultra-deepwater following the increase demand for oil and gas resource. Therefore, one of the floating structures for deepwater exploitation is FPSO. The yaw of FPSO is more important problem to solve, the mooring system can be reduce the yaw and improve the stability This paper research the mooring system of FPSO in South China Sea. A comprehensive review is introduced about the research on FPSO hydrodynamic in the world, including the coupling hydrodynamic analysis of deepwater FPSO with the mooring system. The results indicate that with the mooring system the FPSO can drilling in stable area, because the mooring system provide huge load. The FPSO with single point mooring system can control the displacement of FPSO effectively.