Patent ID: 8770128

Claim:
A facility for producing and processing fluids including a floating vessel having a hull, the facility comprising: a rotating single-point mooring system including a turret pivotally mounted in an opening and having a shaft passing vertically through the hull of the floating vessel, which may be moored to the seabed and through which fluid transfer pipes pass towards the floating vessel, wherein the mooring system comprises devices for guiding the turret in the shaft and including axial bearing means and radial bearing means, and the turret comprises an upper part which includes a rotating device for receiving and supporting incoming fluid transfer pipes, and an upper bearing having a smaller diameter than the shaft and inter-positioned between a head portion of the upper part of the turret, and a support structure connected to the hull of the floating vessel, the upper bearing of the turret being located above the rotating device for receiving and supporting incoming fluid transfer pipes.