Marine and naval engineers in Houston are working on a variety of fresh designs targeted to suit today’s era of flexible and low-cost development.

One example comes via a team from TechnipFMC, which pitched an unmanned, three-column semi-submersible platform aimed at supporting subsea systems with long tiebacks, in a paper presented at the 2017 Society of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers (Sname) symposium in Houston.

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