About TLP

A TLP (Tension Leg Platform) is a floating platform suitable for deepwater oil and gas field development. The platform is moored to the seabed by high tensile strength steel tubes which allow very little vertical motion.

Since the mid-1980s, TLPs have been key to deepwater oil and gas production development.

TLPs can be used as "stand alone full processing" platforms or simple "well head" platforms with processing undertaken at another facility such as an FPSO. In either case the TLP can be provided with drilling and/or workover capability.

Currently, approximately 20 TLPs are in operation in the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, offshore Indonesia and West Africa.