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Definition Tie-back in the offshore oil and gas upstream activities refer to the connection of additional risers to the floating vessel or platform. Comments Originally the offshore oil and gas industry used to focus on large fields that could be explored and produced in drilling strait below the floating vessel or the platform. But the high […]

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Definition Turret is the major component of a vessel or any floating production unit (FPSO, FPO) to which the risers coming from the seabed are connected. Turret name refers the rotating function of this large equipment to facilitate the rotation of the vessel according to winds, waves and dominating current while the risers remain connected to a […]

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Doris to work on Maersk Chissonga FEED Maersk Oil (Maersk) , a fully owned subsidiary of A.P. Møller – Mærsk A/S operates the Block 16, which includes the Chissonga discovery. Chissonga is located in the Lower Congo Basin some 138  kilometres offshore Angola in water depths 1,500 meters. In 2011, Maersk Oil acquired the 15% interest […]

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 Definition SPAR is the acronym for Single Point Anchor Reservoir (SPAR). This descriptive definition refers to a floating system with infield flow lines and associated subsea infrastructure to connect the subsea production and injection wells. Comments From design perspective a SPAR is a cylindrical, partially submerged offshore drilling and production platform that is particularly well-adapted […]

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