The freestanding hybrid riser concept allows decoupling the schedules of riser and floating production unit design, manufacture, and installation, providing flexibility should delays occur during FPU ...

The Shenandoah floating production system (FPS) has been transported to the Gulf of America ahead of wet tow and offshore installation at the Shenandoah deepwater field at Walker Ridge project site, ...

Nigeria has been classified as a major crude exploration hub in Africa, driving the global offshore drilling riser market estimated to reach $4.1 billion by 2023 and $4.9 billion by 2033. The biggest ...

This appendix presents background information regarding bolting preload and safety factors used in bolting design. A marine drilling riser is an unpressurized conduit through which drilling operations ...

In summer 2002, three pipelines were installed by the pull method to Forest Oil Corp.'s Redoubt Shoal field Osprey platform, Cook Inlet, Alas., in a project that used new technology in several areas.

Ocean services provider DeepOcean has been awarded a SIMOPRO – simultaneous marine operation and production – installation contract by Equinor on the Norwegian continental shelf. DeepOcean’s scope of ...

As the price of oil on the world market continues to climb, and as untapped land and shallow offshore oil reserves become a rarity, oil exploration companies are striking out into deepwater, ...

The composites industry seems to be waiting for "the big one" — the killer application requiring vast quantities of materials that will propel composites into the material mainstream. Offshore oil has ...