Tether Tension Variation of Tension Leg Platform (TLP) due to Random Waves

• Main Author: Mas Nazli Aziah Mohd Adnan, Mas Nazli Aziah
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi Petronas 2009
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/753/1/Mas_Nazli_Aziah_Mohd_Adnan.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/753/

Since petroleum exploration has shifted into deep water region, Tension Leg Platform (TLP) becomes one of the alternatives of floating platform. TLP is more economically feasible over jacket platform because its construction cost does not linearly increases as water depth increases. TLP allows mo...