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WO/2003/033336A1
The present invention is concerned with a hull assembly for an aquatic vessel, and particularly with a catamaran vessel provided with the hull assembly. The hull assembly has a plurality of flexible modular containers units. Each of the ...  
WO/2003/013949A1
A floating platform (10) for use in a body of water comprises an uppermost buoyant and ballastable hull (14) partially submerged in the water without contacting the floor of the body of water and usually without being moored to the floor...  
WO/2003/011682A2
A connector is provided for removably attaching a space frame to the hull of a floating offshore platform. The connector comprises a socket attached to the hull of the platform. The socket has an open bore therein. A stabbing member is a...  
WO/2002/090884A1
A method for detecting a crankshaft installation position, comprising the steps of temporarily setting, as data, the installation heights of the remaining bearings against the reference installation height of a reference bearing for a cr...  
WO/2002/090885A1
A method for detecting the installation position of a drive shafting, comprising the steps of temporarily setting the installation heights of the remaining bearings against the reference installation heights of reference bearings for a c...  
WO2001051350A9
Method of high-strength sandwich skin fabrication uses the thickness of a high-density foam skin core (27) to mask minor imperfections on the surface of the mold, thereby allowing the mold (10, 20) to be divided into separate integral pa...  
WO/2002/081297A2
A module assembly floating dry-dock includes a first pontoon (52), a module turning caisson (64) and a second pontoon (54) positioned adjacent each other, each capable of independent lowering and raising. Hull module subassemblies are li...  
WO/2002/072414A1
A system for transporting a payload in a marine environment that utilizes a converted vessel (10) having at least one internal space (50), at least one interface system (30) securingly attached to said vessel to support in a seaworthy fa...  
WO/2002/072417A2
A hydrofoil craft, particularly a method of economically modifying a conventional hull with cambered foils to obtain and calculate increased lift from dense spray and to achieve enhanced craft performance is disclosed. The present invent...  
WO/2002/070334A1
The invention relates to an auxiliary device for handling, such as mounting and dismounting, large ship thrusters, especially large electrical ship thrusters. The auxiliary device is configured as a floodable floating unit that can be va...  
WO2001012500A9
A multichambered boat (20) that is constructed upside-down on a platform (84) where flotation chambers (42) are located in the perimeter portion of the multichambered boat (20). The perimeter chambers (42) have laterally downward sloping...  
WO/2002/066345A1
A graphical user interface is provided for providing a three dimensional representation of a cargo storage space and a three dimensional representation of a cargo item to be placed within that storage space. The interface allows the repr...  
WO/2002/047970A1
A system includes a semisubmersible (20) with an optimized low motions hull form (82), a plurality of steel catenary risers (30) connected to and extending from the semisubmersible, and a semi-taut mooring system (40) attached to the sem...  
WO/2002/038438A1
The invention relates to a vessel having an elongated shape, and being moored to the sea bed in a substantially fixed orientation. The vessel comprises at least along its longitudinal sides, near keel level, two transverse skirts having ...  
WO/2002/035014A1
A marine platform 17 (and method of installation) provides a plurality of buoys 13-16, a platform 17 having a peripheral portion that includes a plurality of attachment positions 27, one attachment position for each buoy, and a connectio...  
WO/2002/020341A2
A method of reinforcing a metal panel or pipe of an existing structure comprising the steps of attaching a reinforcing metal layer to said metal panel or pipe in spaced apart relation to thereby form at least one cavity between inner sur...  
WO/2002/018200A1
Apparatus for assembling a frame structure comprises a jig (2) having a plurality of slots (4) adjacent to one another and a plurality of frame members for forming part of the frame structure, wherein the slots (4) are adapted to receive...  
WO/2002/004287A1
A method of installing a deck on an offshore support structure includes the steps of transferring the deck (3) onto a first vessel (1), bringing the first vessel (1) into the vicinity of a second vessel (2), connecting the first vessel (...  
WO/2001/089921A1
The present invention relates to an inspection system for inspection of an object, comprising at least an image recording means (30, 30') carried by an inspector (20, 20'), a display unit, a storage unit and a contact free positioning un...  
WO/2001/072580A1
A device on a ship for positioning in relation to the extraction of hydrocarbons at sea is described. The device is characterised in that the ship, approximately at its mid-section or towards one of its end points, on at least one of the...  
WO/2001/064507A1
The invention concerns a submersible heavy lift barge, comprising: at least one floating body (2, 3); an essentially rectangular deck box (4) arranged on and carried by the at least one floating body; at each corner of the deck box a sta...  
WO/2001/060688A1
The present invention relates to a semi-submersible lifting structure (3) with controllable buoyancy for lifting offshore platforms (11) placed on jackets with jacket legs. The lifting structure (3) has two, in a longitudinal direction, ...  
WO/2001/060638A1
A robot (14) capable of moving against gravity uses at least one vacuum cup assembly (15) having a port (10) for applying a lubricant on the working surface (13) so the cup (1) may slide on the surface (13) as the robot (14) is maneuvere...  
WO/2001/053609A1
A method of removing a deck from an offshore structure (11) including a deck (13) supported on a jacket (12), includes the following steps: a) positioning a floating vessel (10) around the jacket with respective parts of the vessel on op...  
WO/2000/078604A1
A lifting vessel (1) consisting of a lower U-shaped pontoon foundation (2a, 2b, 2c), a number of vertical columns (5) attached to the pontoon foundation and extending upwards and through the water surface, and each column (5) being free-...  
WO/2000/076840A1
A method for converting a semi-submersible drilling or accommodation rig into a dynamically positioned vessel in which the rig has pontoon bodies submergible below a surface of a body of water for producing displacement, support columns ...  
WO/2000/075010A1
A device for positioning and lifting a marine structure, particularly a platform deck, with the use of a U-shaped lifting vessel (1). The device has at least two adjustable lifting frames (12, 12), each able to incline towards the middle...  
WO/2000/073139A1
The present invention relates to a method for mounting and fixing stern tubes (1) in ships. The stern tube is adpated to enclose a propeller shaft (2) and comprises a tube with at least one interior bearing (3) supporting the propeller s...  
WO/2000/068073A1
The invention relates to an electric rudder propeller for a high-speed marine ship, comprising a multi-phase electric motor which is mounted in a gondola-shaped housing beneath the stern of the ship, using a rotatable, preferably two-par...  
WO/2000/044552A1
To treat FRP moulded products, such as boat hulls (10), where the structure of the FRP laminate has been damaged, e.g. by water penetration, a layer of impermeable sheet material (18) is first secured to a surface of the product to be tr...  
WO/2000/040806A2
This invention provides a method for constructing an offshore platform by mating a self-floating deck (50) structure with a self-floating substructure. The self-floating deck structure may be a floating pier or barge (40), on which the d...  
WO/2000/027693A1
An apparatus and method for installing a deck (3) on an offshore substructure (15) is provided. The apparatus comprises a deck supported by lifting mechanisms (6) compressed until transported to an offshore substructure having an upper e...  
WO1999048753A9
The invention relates to a method of constructing SPAR buoys comprising an elongate floating body (1) and a deck structure (2). The elongate body (1) is transported to the mooring site in its horizontal position. During erecting of the f...  
WO/1999/043542A1
In a method for the transfer of an offshore platform topsides (3) from a substructure (2) fixed to the seabed to a floating transporter (1), where the transporter (1) is lowered by means of ballasting and introduced under the platform to...  
WO1999009259A9
A method and apparatus for the installation or removal of large multi-ton prefabricated deck packages (17) includes the use of usually two barges (11, 12) defining a base (13, 14) that can support a large multi-ton load. A variable dimen...  
WO/1999/022985A1
A method of transporting and installing an offshore sturcture (2) comprising transporting the offshore structure (2) to the installation site by barge (24) with at least a portion of the structure (2) being supported under the barge (24)...  
WO1998054048A9
The present invention provides a design for a water going vessel hull and a method for determining useful hull design, and particularly multihull design, with emphasis on applicability to smaller trimaran vessels operating as displacemen...  
WO/1999/011517A1
The invention relates to an improved ship, incorporating a distortion sensor arrangement (8). The measurement data supplied by the distortion sensor arrangement (8) are preferably used to correct measurement data supplied by and/or contr...  
WO/1999/010230A1
A buoyant substructure to float upright in water (e.g. for an offshore platform) and comprising at least three spaced apart columns (103) joined together in generally aligned relationship, in which at least one of the columns is adapted ...  
WO/1999/009260A1
A method and apparatus for the installation or removal of large multi-ton prefabricated deck packages (17) includes the use of usually two barges (11, 12) defining a base (13, 14) that can support a large multi-ton load. A variable dimen...  
WO/1999/006188A1
A marine connector that facilitates docking of large floating objects during a sea state that produces significant relative motion between the two objects. A toggle nose (22) is mounted on one floating object (10) and a mating device, a ...  
WO/1998/046478A1
A stable floating barge-platform (10) for offshore operations and a method for assembling the same are disclosed. The barge-platform (10) is assembled from a plurality of substantially identical buoyant modules (11a, 11b, 11c and 11d) al...  
WO/1998/031586A1
A method and an apparatus for monitoring the wave formation from a vessel, particularly after high speed ferries, based on calculation of the Froude number.  
WO/1998/014361A1
The invention comprises a hull having a bottom part (2) and sides (3). A plate (10) is fixed to the sides (3) at at least a substantial number of points around the periphery of the plate (10) and the plate (10) is spaced apart from the b...  
WO/1998/010145A2
A method and apparatus for the installation or removal of large multi-ton prefabricated deck packages (26) include the use of usually two barges (12, 13) defining a base that can support a large multi-ton load. A variable dimensional tru...  
WO/1998/007616A1
A turret system is installed on an existing vessel (50) such as an oil tanker. A portion of the existing structure, such as the centre splice, is removed (B) to leave an opening (54). A support structure (55) is attached (C) within the o...  
WO/1997/045597A1
The deck or superstructure (48) for an offshore production platform is shifted from a loading facility (72) onto a cargo vessel (10) that includes a large-area lifting assembly (12A, 12B, 12C). The vessel (10) transports the superstructu...  
WO/1997/043171A1
Modular floating semisubmersible platform structures suitable for supporting offshore oil exploration and production platforms and for fabricating a mobile offshore base capable of landing and launching aircraft in deep ocean environment...  
WO/1997/029949A1
A process comprising: fixing a first end of a tendon to an anchor; lowering the anchor to the sea floor; securing the anchor to the sea floor; fixing a second end of the tendon to the platform. A tendon comprising: a flexible line that e...  
WO/1997/029948A1
A process and a device for generating a stabilizing moment, before a TLP platform is secured and tensioned to the sea floor, wherein the central axis of the TLP is vertically aligned; and reducing the size of the TLP in the wave zone, af...  

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