Patent ID: 8821071

Claim:
A conical piled monopod structure for use in ice prone offshore environment wherein the conical piled monopod comprises: a body with a base at the bottom and a top deck at the top wherein the base is attached to pilings that are driven into a muddy seafloor when the conical piled monopod structure is installed for use, a shoulder, a neckline and an inclined faceted ice engaging surface around the body extending from the shoulder to the neckline where the ice-engaging surface is inclined from a wider lower region at the shoulder to a narrower neckline and has sides corresponding in number to sides of a polygon shape defined by the shoulder and where the shoulder is arranged to be below the sea surface and the neckline is arranged to be above the sea surface wherein the top deck at the top of the body is at least 60 meters across and the monopod structure has a density of less than about 0.20 tonnes/m 3 .