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.

Petrobras could cancel a tender for the P-61 oil platform after prices came in higher than expected. The platform would have been the first TLP installed in Brazil, destined for production at the Papa ...

Tension Leg Platforms (TLPs) are buoyant offshore structures held in place by vertical, high-tension tendons anchored to the seabed. They provide a near-fixed vertical position in medium-to-deep water ...

Offshore driller Pride International has hired heavy load handling equipment manufacturer Bardex to supply hydraulic rig skidding and clamping equipment for a tension-leg platform to be used on ...