An offshore offloading system for hydrocarbon products from a storage
station such as an LNG/FPSO to a shuttle vessel. The system includes a
yoke mooring arrangement having a yoke and a connection assembly. One end
of the yoke is selectively disconnectable to the shuttle vessel, while
the other end of the yoke is rotatably connected to an end of the
connection assembly which has its other end rotatably connected to a
frame which extends from an end of the storage station. The yoke and
connection assembly are arranged such that a transverse force in the
lateral or y-direction moves the end of the yoke less than twice the
movement of the yoke in response to an x-direction force. The system also
includes arrangements for providing a hydrocarbon fluid flow path from
the storage station to the shuttle vessel when the shuttle vessel is
disconnectably moored to the storage station. A first fluid flow path
arrangement includes a crane/boom arrangement mounted on a frame
extension of the storage station so that a crane slewing arc radius of
the transfer system is not larger than one half the separation distance
between the storage station and a forward perpendicular of the shuttle
vessel. A second arrangement includes a fixed frame with a piping
pantograph mount at its end. A trolley and service platform suspended
therefrom move between an operational position away from the pantograph
and a service position beneath the pantograph when it is folded into a
storage position.