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 ...

HOUSTON, Nov. 3, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Oil States International, Inc. (NYSE:OIS) announced today that Oil States Industries, its wholly owned subsidiary headquartered in Arlington, Texas, was ...

Researchers led by the University of Oviedo in Spain have developed a new floating PV system for applications in offshore waters. “The novelty of the system lies in combining a dual-axis solar tracker ...

The contract for the P-61 tension-leg wellhead platform was awarded to Floatec after a re-bid and a long negotiation that resulted in a reduction of 5000-tonne in topsides payload. A decision to use a ...

HOUSTON, Sept. 6-- The Mars tension-leg platform (TLP), heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina in late August 2005, currently is producing 190,000 boe/d (gross), Shell Exploration & Production Co.

The US took its first steps toward embracing offshore wind power earlier this month with the approval of the Vineyard Wind 1 project off the coast of Massachusetts. When the site is complete, 62 ...

Malaysia’s Velesto Energy has won contracts to provide top tension riser services for Shell’s Malikai tension-leg platform (TLP), which is producing offshore Sabah, East Malaysia. The UK supermajor’s ...