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API RP 2FPS Document Information:
Title
Recommended Practice for Planning, Designing, and Construction Floating Production Systems
American Petroleum Institute
Publication Date:
Mar 1, 2001
Scope:
This Recommended Practice (RP) provides guidelines for design,
fabrication, installation,
inspection and operation of Floating Production Systems (FPSs). The
basic function of a FPS is to
receive hydrocarbons from the wellhead, process the hydrocarbons, and
store and/or offload the
product to a shuttle tanker or convey it to a pipeline system. A FPS
may be designed with the
capability of one or more stages of hydrocarbon processing, as well as
drilling, well workover,
product storage, and export. This RP addresses only floating systems
where a buoyant hull of some
form supports the deck, production, and other systems. The buoyant
hull can be of a
column-stabilized, ship-shaped, or other form, that is maintained on
location by a suitable station
keeping system. Bottom-fixed components, such as self-supporting
risers, and station keeping
systems, such as turret mooring, Catenary Anchor Leg Mooring (CALM),
Single Anchor Leg Mooring
(SALM), etc. are considered as ancillary components and are addressed
in more detail in other API
recommended practices.
Tension Leg Platforms (TLP) and Fixed Offshore Platforms are not
addressed in this document. These
platform types are defined and addressed in API RPs 2T and 2A,
respectively. Production systems
supported by self-elevating platforms (jackups) and submersibles
(bottom sitting) are also
excluded.
FPS technology is evolving rapidly, with new system configurations and
component designs appearing
frequently. Several different types of FPSs have been installed and
many more have been proposed.
Consequently, this RP does not address specific FPS configurations.
Instead, design guidance for
various common system components is provided in this document.
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