Originally designed as a floating buoy to acquire oceanographic information, the main component of a spar facility is the deep-draft floating chamber, or hollow cylindrical hull ...

1. Spar A single, cylindrical counterweight which extends up to 100m below the surface. 2. Barge A wide, shallow floating platform. 3. Tension leg platform Multiple types of renewable energy ...

Oil supermajor Shell on Thursday announced it has achieved first oil at its Whale deepwater floating production facility in ...

FLIP, the FLoating Instrument Platform ... then “flipped” 90 degrees so that 300 feet of its length are under water. This turned FLIP into a “spar buoy,” a tall, thin, weighty structure designed to be ...