Kevin Chell represented TVO at OWI EU 2024, Europe’s leading offshore well intervention conference and exhibition, presenting a paper titled, “Maintaining Well Integrity During Interventions Using Tethering Technology.” The conference, held in Aberdeen, Scotland, in late April brought together 250 industry professionals to discuss advanced subsea technology solutions.
TVO’s presentation demonstrated how the company’s patented wellhead fatigue mitigation system arrests the motion of the BOP stack above the wellhead and transfers loads to the tethering system, foundations, and seabed to reduce wellhead cyclic stresses and enhance fatigue life.
Experts in attendance got a close look at installation results that show how the system performs in challenging offshore environments (including in the Gulf of Mexico, North Sea, Caspian Sea, offshore Brazil, and Australasia) as Chell explained how TVO is adapting this proprietary technology to resolve complex operational challenges and redefine the limits of offshore drilling and production.