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FIGURE 1.9
Photograph of three-legged platform.
scheduled for first oil production in December 2008. The FPSO conversions
and internal turret were done at the Keppel Shipyard in Singapore and the
topsides were fabricated in modules at Dyna-Mac and BTE in Singapore.
Tension-Leg Platform
Nowadays there is a trend to use gas that in the previous 40 years would have
been burned off in the air, so there are many projects aimed at discovering gas
for production, and gas exploration has been extended into deep water. The
conventional fixed offshore structure cannot be used, so researchers and
engineering firms have used the legs of tension wire platforms in deep water.
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