mooring

Heavy-lift and installation specialists will pre-install a mooring spread for upcoming Stabroek block FPSO.

The Haewene Brim FPSO will need repairs to a pair of mooring connections before it can restart operations.

The DS-16 is one of four Valaris rigs undergoing reactivation work for new drilling contracts.

After suffering major setbacks, Chevron’s massive Big Foot project finally achieved first oil last November in the US Gulf of Mexico. With the setbacks in the rear-view mirror, project personnel spoke about the challenges.

Offshore operators must grapple with ways to keep aging floating facilities on station beyond their original design life.

Air Products, BHGE, Norsafe, and Sofec won contracts for Eni’s Coral South FLNG project in Mozambique.

How do mooring systems reduce risks of hurricane damage to mobile offshore drilling units?

As many platforms begin to produce beyond their design life, maintenance of mooring systems becomes more critical. With redundancies in place, operators may be unaware of initial failures, which can have major consequences if another failure occurs.

A routine maintenance project became more complicated when an ROV inspection exposed unexpected trenching that reduced the holding capacity of the system.