US 12,240,566 B2
Modular offshore floating platform systems and methods for operating the same
Sai Mohan Majhi, Houston, TX (US); Patrick C. Wong, Cypress, TX (US); Gary L. Hurst, Houston, TX (US); and Donghwan Lee, The Woodlands, TX (US)
Assigned to ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, Spring, TX (US)
Filed by ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, Spring, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/658,114.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/190,270, filed on May 19, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0371695 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. B63B 22/02 (2006.01); B63B 21/50 (2006.01); B63B 35/44 (2006.01); E21B 43/01 (2006.01)
CPC B63B 22/021 (2013.01) [B63B 21/50 (2013.01); E21B 43/0107 (2013.01); B63B 2035/448 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A modular floating platform system, comprising:
a detachable floating buoy communicably coupled to a subsea production system via one or more communication lines;
a plurality of floating surface facilities individually matable with the detachable floating buoy at a standardized bottom interface provided on each floating surface facility, wherein the standardized bottom interface of each floating surface facility comprises a plug portion sized to be received within a central aperture defined by the detachable floating buoy;
a latching mechanism that individually couples each floating surface facility to the detachable floating buoy when each floating surface facility is individually mated to the detachable floating buoy; and
one or more communication couplings that place each floating surface facility in communication with the subsea production system via the one or more communication lines when each floating surface facility is individually mated to the detachable floating buoy.