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 ...

Despite the Dicas mooring system being adopted for one or two storage vessels, it has yet to make a full weathervaning breakthrough on a floater. Serious evaluations have been undertaken to apply it ...

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 ...