Abstract:INTRODUCTION
The interest increasingly being shown in floating production systems has drawn renewed attention to the problems of riser design. The production riser is clearly a crucial item which requires a design procedure in which a high degree of confidence can be placed. In this respect the requirements of a production riser are more exacting than those of the drilling risers used in the exploratory phase.
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