OTL continued to lead the TAD (Tender Assisted Drilling) technology development. OTL is currently working on multiple TAD-related projects for different clients, aiming at develop TAD technologies and promote the use of TAD in West Africa and Gulf of Mexico environment.

TAD technology has been successfully used for many field development in Asia, including Murphy Oil’s Kikeh Spar offshore Malaysia, Shell’s Malikai TLP Malaysia, Chevron’s West Seno A TLWP offshore Indonesai and Chevron’s Tombua Landana Compliant Tower offshore West Africa. Application of TAD will greatly simplify the platform’s topside design as most of the drilling loads will be located on the TAD vessel rather than on the production platform itself.