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 ...

FLIP, the FLoating Instrument Platform, was not a ship ... 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 ...

Although they sound futuristic, floating turbine platforms draw on proven designs from the oil and gas industry. Spar buoys — long, vertical cylinders weighted at the base for stability — have ...

The Kikeh project, which is located on Block K off the coast of Sabah, East Malaysia, is a flagship deepwater project that ...