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 ...

McDermott International, Inc. reports that its subsidiary has become the first to install rigid reel-lay pipe-in-pipe in Asia-Pacific for the Siakap North-Petai (SNP) development project offshore ...

The earliest serious development of reeling for the offshore industry was done by Fluor in the late 1960s. This first resulted in the reelship Chickasaw. Now owned by Global Industries, this vessel ...

The spoolbase has been welding pipe for its first pipeline construction project, the Marathon-operated Droshky subsea tie-back in the deep-water Gulf of Mexico. Subsea 7 was contracted by Marathon to ...