tension leg platforms (TLPs) are buoyant production facilities vertically moored to the seafloor by tendons. TLP Design While a buoyant hull supports the platform's topsides, an intricate mooring ...

Shell Exploration & Production Co. 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 ...

The basic design of a TLP includes four air-filled columns forming a square. These columns are supported and connected by pontoons, similar to the design of a semisubmersible production platform.

Installed in 2,860 feet (871.7 m) of water, the Auger TLP reportedly set a world water-depth record for a drilling and production platform, and surpassed the existing Gulf of Mexico record by more ...

The move is part of Shell's strategy to invest in profitable and carbon-competitive oil and gas projects that have a robust ...

Shell Offshore Inc. and Shell Pipeline Company (SPLC), subsidiaries of Shell plc (Shell), have completed the previously ...

Shell is the operator of Ursa Tension-Leg Platform (TLP) and holds a 61.3484% working interest (WI) ownership in the asset with BP Exploration & Production Inc. (22.6916% WI) and ECP GOM III, LLC ...