American Petroleum Institute

Planning, Designing, and Constructing Floating Production Systems - SECOND EDITION
 N RP 2FPS

Annotation

This document provides requirements and guidance for the structural design and/or assessment of floating offshore platforms used by the petroleum and natural gas industries to support the following functions:

— production;

— storage and/or offloading;

— drilling and production;

— production, storage and offloading;

— drilling, production, storage and offloading.

NOTE 1 Floating offshore platforms are often referred to using a variety of abbreviations, e.g. FPS, FSU, FPSO, etc. (see Clauses 3 and 4), in accordance with their intended mission.

NOTE 2 In this standard, the term "floating structure", sometimes shortened to "structure", is used as a generic term to indicate the structural systems of any member of the classes of platforms defined above.

NOTE 3 In some cases, floating platforms are designated as "early production platforms". This term relates merely to an asset development strategy. For the purposes of this International Standard, the term "production" includes "early production". Its requirements do not apply to the structural systems of mobile offshore units (MOUs). These include, among others:

floating structures intended primarily to perform drilling and/or well intervention operations (often referred to as MODUs), even when used for extended well test operations;