Steel catenary risers (SCRs) are pivotal components in deepwater offshore engineering, linking seabed installations to floating production systems. Their dynamic behaviour, particularly in the ...

Brazil’s Petrobras has been one of the leading players in deepwater, subsea development projects since the turn of the century. These projects include pre-salt and post-salt plays, which require ...

Similar to pipelines or flowlines, risers transport produced hydrocarbons, as well as production materials, such as injection fluids, control fluids and gas lift. Usually insulated to withstand ...

STEEL catenary risers have proven to be a successful application in the Gulf of Mexico, but greater focus from the US Minerals Management Service (MMS) is driving more operators to beef up their ...

SBM Offshore is pleased to announce it has signed a Production Handling Agreement (PHA) with Noble Energy to produce the Big Bend and Dantzler fields to the Thunder Hawk DeepDraft (TM) Semi located in ...

Mariner Energy has appointed INTEC Engineering as Certified Verification Agent for the Bass Lite Steel Catenary Riser on the Devil's Tower Spar in Block MC 773 in the Gulf of Mexico. Mariner Energy ...

HOUSTON, June 17, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Oil States International, Inc. (NYSE:OIS) announced today that its Oil States Industries subsidiary has been awarded a contract from Subsea 7 to supply 27 ...

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 ...

Pricing structures were complicated as Petrobras was taking advantage of tax and accounting loopholes, but it is understood that the lowest bid came in at under $500 million. Trailing Saipem in second ...

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, ...