FLEXIBLE RISER AND MOORING SYSTEM DEVELOPS SMALL OIL FIELDS IN THE NORTH SEA

Abstract

This paper reports on the flexible riser and mooring system (FRAMS) which provides a technically straightforward, commercially attractive method of developing small oil fields. A passively moored 60,000-deadweight-ton (60,000-DWT) tanker with deck-mounted equipment provides a swivelless well fluid and injection water path from and to the wellheads. The system can be disconnected rapidly in severe weather.