A rail system for large turret bearing includes a turret bearing support structure, a rail support ring provided with a L-shaped cross section including an inward directed wedge mating face, at least two rings of radially elongated segment bolt holes, and an outermost ring of wedge bolt holes, a plurality of rail segments together forming a complete circle with an outer radius slightly smaller than the radius of the wedge mating face of the rail support ring. Each segment includes a sloped outer wedge mating surface, a downward facing contact surface with threaded bolt holes corresponding to the bolt holes in the rail support ring, an upper largely horizontal surface, and an inner largely vertical surface.

The invention relates to a unit, having a floating wind turbine, which has a floating foundation, and having a floating mooring buoy, which can be connected to the floating foundation of the floating wind turbine and which has at least one anchoring means for anchoring the mooring buoy to the bed of a body of water, characterized in that the floating foundation of the floating wind turbine has a hole for holding the mooring buoy.

A turret assembly for a vessel comprises a moonpool defined in the vessel and a turret structure rotatably mounted in said moonpool. The turret structure comprises a turret table which by means of a main bearing is rotatably mounted in said moonpool and a hollow turret shaft defined by a surrounding shaft wall, which turret shaft has an upper shaft end connected to the turret table, a substantially cylindrical shaft part that extends downwardly from the turret table and a lower shaft end provided with means intended for cooperation with a lower bearing. The shaft wall of the upper shaft end comprises a widened part surrounding the cylindrical shaft part and defines a circumferential crest, wherein the shaft wall of the upper shaft end, starting from said circumferential crest, extends downwardly towards a position where the upper shaft end is connected to the turret table.

In a three row, roller bearing assembly coupling a vessel to a turret, the bearing assembly having a support row assembly disposed between an inner ring connected to the turret and outer rings connected to the vessel, a method and arrangement for in situ remediation of a damaged support row assembly. Couplers are secured to existing inner ring stud bolts. A continuous bearing ring below the couplers is assembled and a support bearing arrangement is installed between the couplers and the bearing ring. Reaction plates are mounted to the vessel. Each reaction plate has a jack screw which is positioned directly below the bearing ring. The jack screws are turned to elevate the bearing ring and form a flat surface for support of the support bearing arrangement. The turret axial load is transferred from the damaged support row assembly to the support bearing arrangement.

A turret mooring system for a floating process and storage offloading, FPSO, vessel or a FLNG vessel includes a turret structure and a bearing support structure. The turret structure is to be placed within a moonpool in a hull of the vessel and rotatably held within the moonpool via the bearing support structure. The bearing support structure includes a radial support and an axial support. The radial support includes a plurality of radial wheels, and the axial support includes a plurality of axial bogies. The vessel has a topside process deck and the turret structure includes a collar deck. The collar deck is positioned vertically above an upper side of the axial support and below an elevation of the topside process deck. An FPSO or FLNG vessel is provided which includes the turret mooring system.

A structural suspension of radial turret bearing wheels in a turret bearing comprises a rail support structure mounted on a turret bearing support structure, a circular rail mounted to the rail support structure, and a plurality of radial wheels running on the mainly vertical inner side of the rail.

The suspension includes a vertical flexible shaft, for each radial wheel, supported by an upper and lower support with a part of the shaft protruding with the radial wheel mounted close to the outer end.

The inner side of the rail is a frustum with the shortest radius at the top and an aperture of 2, and the outer mainly planar contacting surface of the wheel has an angle relative to the rotational axis of the wheel, and is overlaid with a convex curvature across the contacting surface.

In a three row, roller bearing assembly coupling a vessel to a turret, the bearing assembly having a support row assembly disposed between an inner ring connected to the turret and outer rings connected to the vessel, a method and arrangement for in situ remediation of a damaged support row assembly. Couplers are secured to existing inner ring stud bolts. A continuous bearing ring below the couplers is assembled and a support bearing arrangement is installed between the couplers and the bearing ring. Reaction plates are mounted to the vessel. Each reaction plate has a jack screw which is positioned directly below the bearing ring. The jack screws are turned to elevate the bearing ring and form a flat surface for support of the support bearing arrangement. The turret axial load is transferred from the damaged support row assembly to the support bearing arrangement.

The invention relates to a marine energy production assembly (1) comprising: anchoring means (2); a floating wind turbine (4) comprising a turbine (7) having a fixed axis of rotation (A-A) of a rotor (71) with respect to a floating structure (5) of the floating wind turbine (4), means (8) for determining the wind direction (V); characterised in that it comprises: means (81) for detecting an orientation of the floating wind turbine (4) with respect to the wind direction (V); means (9) for detecting an inclination of the floating wind turbine (4); means (10) for controlling the inclination of the floating wind turbine (4); a computation unit (11) for transmitting an instruction to the means (10) for controlling the inclination of the floating wind turbine (4) and altering the orientation of the floating wind turbine (4) with respect to the wind direction (V).

A rail system for large turret bearing includes a turret bearing support structure, a rail support ring provided with a L-shaped cross section including an inward directed wedge mating face, at least two rings of radially elongated segment bolt holes, and an outermost ring of wedge bolt holes, a plurality of rail segments together forming a complete circle with an outer radius slightly smaller than the radius of the wedge mating face of the rail support ring. Each segment includes a sloped outer wedge mating surface, a downward facing contact surface with threaded bolt holes corresponding to the bolt holes in the rail support ring, an upper largely horizontal surface, and an inner largely vertical surface. The rail system includes trapeze shaped wedges each with at least one bolt hole and corresponding bolt(s), adapted to be tightened down between the wedge mating face of the support ring and the sloped outer wedge mating surface of the segments, and rail bolts for fastening the rail segments. A method for mounting the rail system and a method for replacing a rail segment are also disclosed.

A swivel stack for transfer of fluid across a rotary interface around a main rotation axis between an incoming flow-line and an outgoing flow-line, includes an inner cylindrical body and a first cylindrical annular element. The cylindrical annular element is mounted on the inner cylindrical body so the rotational axes of the annular element and cylindrical body coincide. The inner cylindrical body has an internal conduit running from a cylindrical base parallel to the rotation axis. The conduit has an outlet port communicating with a circumferential cavity on the cylindrical surface of the inner cylindrical body. The first cylindrical annular element includes a toroidal cavity on its internal cylindrical surface. The first cylindrical annular element is mounted on the inner cylindrical body at the level of the outlet port so the toroidal cavity and the circumferential cavity form an annular chamber communicating with the outlet port of the internal conduit.