A tension leg platform includes a deck supported on the upper ends of
three or more columns interconnected at the lower ends thereof by
horizontally disposed pontoons. The columns are battered inwardly and
upwardly from the pontoons to the deck. Tendons connected at the columns
anchor the platform to the seabed. The footprints of the base of the
battered columns and the tendons are larger than the footprint of the
deck supported on the upper ends of the columns.