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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...