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Semi-buoyant and Moored (OPM_4)
DGIF baseline 2026-1, the latest. Earlier baselines: timemap.
RDF: opm_4.ttl
- Name
semiBuoyantMoored- Attribute
- OPM Offshore Positioning Method
- Definition
- Semi-buoyant, being capable of rising and falling within the water column, and attached to the waterbody floor with flexible moorings (for example: cables that are adjusted in length as necessary and fastened to anchors).
- Description
- For example, a submerged turret system in which a buoy is flexibly moored to the seabed and is then pulled into and temporarily secured in a mating cone on the underside of a vessel. The accuracy of vessel position maintenance will depend on wave height and tidal effects.
- Accepted
- 2013-10-18
- Allowed for
- BD115 Offshore Construction
Source: DGIF 2026-1 QEA model, DGIWG. Standard: DGIWG 206-3. Licence: CC BY 4.0, © DGIWG.