TLP

Ideal for developing deepwater reserves, no other floating production facility design offers the optimal motion and stability characteristics of a tension leg platform (TLP). The TLP is vertically moored using tubular steel tendons and is supported by a buoyant hull.  The tendon stiffness results in a system with virtually no heave, roll or pitch.  This makes  the TLP  suitable for both dry tree and sub-sea completions.

SBM Atlantia has delivered five TLPs to the deepwater Gulf of Mexico market since 1998. We lead the industry in the development of new deepwater TLP technology.

Currently, SBM Atlantia offers  two TLP solutions for deepwater field development:

• SeaStar® mono-column TLP
• FourStar® four-column TLP

Key Benefits of SBM Atlantia TLPs:

• Minimum motion characteristics provide optimum support for risers and drilling/production equipment, and maximize personnel comfort and safety.
• Vertical tendons provide small deepwater mooring profile and footprint thus allowing easy access around the platform for spread-moored drilling vessels and riser/umbilical installation vessels.
• SeaStar and FourStar TLPs offer a full range of payload and operational capabilities.
• Scalable hull designs accommodate different payload requirements keeping design and engineering costs low for superior cost efficiency.
• Modular, stiffened-plate hulls can be built in most shipyards or marine fabrication yards.
• Turnkey project experience ensures a low-risk project approach, greatly reducing potential project delays or cost overruns.

SBM Atlantia has more experience with TLPs than any other company. Our people have been directly involved in many of the TLPs currently installed around the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico including: Hutton, Joliet, Snorre, Heidrun, Auger, Mars, Ram-Powell and Ursa, in addition to our own TLPs. Our in-house capabilities include all the key disciplines from project management, metocean, naval architecture, process facilities and riser design to integration, fabrication and installation.