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 Devils Tower Spar floating production system is expected to be located on Mississippi Canyon Block 773, in water depth of 5,610 feet, which would make it the world's deepest dry tree platform.