Author: Lyndell Z. Hales

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Published: 1978

Total Pages: 464

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This Station (WES) was requested to assist in the preliminary evaluation of the wave climate at alternate potential Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal sites by applying existing hindcast wave data of a general nature to obtain estimates of the times of excessive wave conditions at the various sites. After the preliminary evaluation was completed, WES was again requested to assist by analyzing the effects of island sheltering and topographic influences on the wave climates of six offshore sites in order to provide a more refined estimate of the wave conditions existing at the potential sites. Because of the absence of a comprehensive deepwater wave hindcast data base of sufficient degree of confidence to permit estimates of the absolute magnitude of occurrences of waves of different periods and heights, the analysis conducted is a relative evaluation only and should not be interpreted as projections of actual downtime, but rather as a consistently uniform basis for comparison. When the appropriate topographic coefficients had been applied to the deepwater hindcast wave data and the resulting wave climate at the potential offshore LNG site had been obtained, it was required that the effects of this resultant wave climate be determined on four possible terminal concepts at each of the six sites. These four concepts include: (a) fixed terminal with one pier, (b) fixed terminal with two piers, (c) floating barge, and (d) deepwater mooring tower.