A. 5. OFFSHORE MOORING AND TANKER OPERATIONS: One type of offshore mooring, 

 known as a single point mooring, is essentially a large buoy connected to a 

 storage/pumping facility by pipeline and to tankers usually by floating 

 hoses. These are the princioal components of deepwater ports, such as the 

 proposed LOOP and Seadock installations in the Gulf of Mexico. These 

 large, complex ports include offshore moorings, submarine pipelines, and 

 onshore facilities for storage, transportation, or processing. Offshore 

 moorings may not be dependent upon a particular offshore field or lease 

 sale. They can accommodate tankered oil from all over the world. 



Another function of an offshore mooring buoy is to allow tankers to 

 take on oil directly from one or more wells which have subsurface 



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