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 ...

Late last year, following four years of construction, Shell 011 Company's recordsetting "Auger" tension leg platform (TLP) was towed out to its new home, some 255 miles southeast of Houston ...

International engineering and project management company, AMEC, will be the company responsible for designing Premier Oil’s tension leg platform (TLP) for the Sea Lion Development in the North ...

and its partners, Amoco Corp. and Exxon Corp., have installed a tension leg platform (TLP) in 3,214 ft. of water. Ram-Powell established a new world's water depth record for an oil and gas ...

In an interview with Recharge, Salazar said the Gazelle design looks to bring the best features from established leading technologies of semi-submersible, spar, tension-leg platform (TLP) and barge, ...

The same is true for either straight or catenary production risers shown in Figures 2.5 2.9. Tubular tendons used in tension-leg platforms (Figure 2.6) are similarly affected, in some cases even more ...