Patent ID: 8328465

Claim:
A system for transferring liquid, comprising: a flexible pipe, that is negatively buoyant in sea water in an empty state, configured to be deployed and retrieved from a vessel comprising a hull; one or more powered spools adapted to lay the flexible pipe onto a sea floor without anchoring the pipe to the sea floor and to retrieve the unanchored pipe from the sea floor by winding the pipe back onto the powered spools, the spools being located on the vessel; a pump, located in the vessel, for pumping the liquid through the flexible pipe, to a location onshore, wherein the pump has a sufficient capacity to pump 1.7 million gallons of liquid from the vessel through 8 miles of the flexible pipe to the location onshore in 20 hours; a bow loading system comprising a connector for the flexible pipe and a swivel mechanism; and a dynamic positioning system configured to maintain a position of the vessel over an offloading point during transfer of the liquid to shore, wherein the vessel is unmoored and the dynamic positioning system allows the vessel to rotate around the offloading point.