A type of floating production system, tension leg platforms (TLPs) are buoyant production facilities vertically moored to the seafloor by tendons. TLP Design While a buoyant hull supports the platform ...

Robert E. Sokoll, Carl W. Sauer, William G. Kelly Conoco Norway Inc. Stavanger A highly iterative and complex process is needed to determine the optimal size and type of subsea wellhead equipment ...

The company has been doing a preliminary front-end engineering and design study in Houston based on a dry completion unit (DCU) for the field. Houston-based marine designer Sea Engineering is ...

The Kizomba development off West Africa will have a new TLP design in which the columns have been moved inboard (Fig. 3). Click here to enlarge image The ETLP (Fig. 3) will be installed in 3,863 ft of ...

The last extended tension-leg platform (E-TLP), based on the old ABB Lummus Global design, was installed more than five years ago. After several years dominated by spar and semi-submersible-based ...