(ShareCast News) - Anglo African Oil & Gas said the rig needed to drill the new TLP 103 oil well in the Republic of Congo would not be available until mid-December at the earliest.Yet management tried ...

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 ...

Despite a complete and ongoing clamp-down on official information from operator Chevron and platform contractor Atlantia, talk is circulating of "a rig with a topside-shaped hole in one of its columns ...

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 ...

Anglo African Oil & Gas (AAOG) is gearing up to spud a well in Congo-Brazzaville that has previously been put on hold as it tried to source a rig. The London-listed junior has contracted a rig from ...

Aker Gulf Marine's twin-boom SLD positions Ram-Powell's wellbay module onto the TLP hull during yard integration. Photo courtesy Shell Deepwater Development Inc. Shell Deepwater Development Inc. (SDDI ...

It has been a part of Ingleside's landscape for months. A big part. Now, the massive yellow-trimmed oil rig platform that was assembled by work crews from Kiewit Offshore Services is chugging its way ...