Offshore pipeline installation plays a critical role in the secure and efficient delivery of energy resources from deepwater reserves to onshore processing facilities. The field encompasses a range of ...

Laying pipe on the seafloor can pose a number of challenges, especially if the water is deep. There are three main ways that subsea pipe is laid -- S-lay, J-lay and tow-in -- and the pipelay vessel is ...

In summer 2002, three pipelines were installed by the pull method to Forest Oil Corp.'s Redoubt Shoal field Osprey platform, Cook Inlet, Alas., in a project that used new technology in several areas.

US CONTRACTOR McDermott has started an offshore pipeline installation job at Brunei Shell Petroleum's shallow-water Ampa field, writes Russell Searancke. The US company's derrick barge DB30 is on ...