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What are risers and mooring lines?

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Risers are hollow pipelines with nominal diameter roughly in the range of 4 to 30inches. In some cases it is simply a high strength steel tube, while in other cases the pipe wall consists of multiple layers with complicated fabrication processes. While:

Mooring lines are a system of lines (chain or wire), or sometimes a combination of both, which are used to anchor floating bodies on the the surface of water at the bottom of the sea.

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