API RP 2SM:2014(R2020)
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Recommended Practice for Design, Manufacture, Installation, and Maintenance of Synthetic Fiber Ropes for Offshore Mooring
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09-17-2020
This document applies to synthetic fiber ropes used in the form of taut leg or catenary moorings for both permanent and temporary offshore installations such as: a) monohull-based floating production, storage, and offloading units (FPSOs); b) monohull-based floating storage units (FSOs, FSUs); c) monohull or semi-submersible based floating production units (FPUs, FPSs); d) mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs); e) spar platforms; f) catenary anchor leg mooring (CALM) buoys (spread mooring only); g) mobile offshore units (MOUs, e.g., construction, pipelay, floating accommodation vessels).
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