Class 166/352 - Surface vessel

Subclass of Class 166 - Wells
Definition: Process or apparatus including structure adapted to buoyantly
No. of applications: 25
Last issue date: 05/24/2012

Application No.	Application Title	Issue Date
20120125611	WATER INJECTION SYSTEMS AND METHODS There is disclosed a system comprising a well drilled into an underground formation comprising hydrocarbons; a production facility at a topside of the well; a water production facility connected to the production facility; wherein the water production facility produces ...	05/24/2012
20120103623	TUBULARS STORAGE AND HANDLING SYSTEM A hydrocarbon drilling tubulars storage and handling system, said system comprising: —first and second rotary storage racks, each rotary storage rack being rotatable about a vertical axis and having storage slots for storage of multiple tubulars in each rotary storage...	05/03/2012
20110067881	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DELIVERING MATERIAL TO A SUBSEA WELL A system and method for delivering a material from a vessel at a surface facility to a subsea location and into a subsea well are provided. The system generally includes a first-stage pump that is located at the surface facility and is configured to receive the material...	03/24/2011
20110005766	Deployment System A downhole deployment system comprises a spoolable tubular member (76) adapted to be coupled to a subsea assembly and to extend to surface level. The deployment system also comprises a spoolable support member (96) adapted to extend through the spoolable t...	01/13/2011
20100300697	INSTALLING AN EXPANDABLE TUBULAR IN A SUBSEA WELLBORE A method and vessel for installing an expandable tubular in a subsea wellbore, wherein said expandable tubular is assembled from expandable tubular segments, said expandable tubular being adapted to be expanded diametrically when positioned in said wellbore by means of ...	12/02/2010
20100175884	Offshore gas recovery During an Extended Well Test or Early Floating Production at an offshore hydrocarbon production site, where oil and gas hydrocarbons are produced by a production vessel, applicant stores the natural gas as pressured gas in a storage tank and occasionally transfers the p...	07/15/2010
20100116507	MOBILE EQUIPMENT FOR RISERLESS DRILLING, WELL INTERVENTION, SUBSEA CONSTRUCTION AND THE LIKE FROM A VESSEL A mobile equipment for riserless drilling, well intervention, subsea construction and the like from a dynamic positionable vessel having a moonpool (8) is comprising two masts (1) situated at the moonpool (8), a yoke (6) extending between and...	05/13/2010
20100108322	PARALLEL DRILLING AND COMPLETION FOR A DRY TREE FLOATING PRODUCTION FACILITY Field development drilling and completion/production work are performed from a floating facility having a deck with a moon pool and a well bay, a first drilling rig fixed to the deck over the moon pool, and a second drilling rig movably mounted on the deck over the well...	05/06/2010
20100071906	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMULTANEOUS SEA DRILLING OPERATIONS A system and method for carrying out simultaneous operations of assembling, dismantling, and maintaining equipment installed by an oil rig, using the tools, systems, and the areas available on the rig itself. The system includes two parallel and separated sustaining bea...	03/25/2010
20090321080	SYSTEM, VESSEL AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF OIL AND HEAVIER GAS FRACTIONS FROM A RESEVOIR BELOW THE SEABED System for production of oil and heavier gas fractions from a reservoir under a seabed, comprising: a field installatio...	12/31/2009
20090032301	RETURN LINE MOUNTED PUMP FOR RISERLESS MUD RETURN SYSTEM Systems and methods for drilling a well bore in a subsea formation from an offshore structure positioned on a water surface with a drill string that is suspended from the structure and includes a bottom hole assembly adapted to form a top hole portion of the well bore. ...	02/05/2009
20080251258	Tubing Support Assembly, Vessel And Method Of Deploying Tubing There is disclosed a tubing support assembly for supporting tubing utilised in the oil and gas exploration and production industry, a vessel including such a tubing support assembly, and a method of deploying such tubing from a vessel. In o...	10/16/2008
20080230228	System and Method For Well Intervention A system and method is described for well intervention in subsea installed oil and gas wells, comprising a surface vessel (10), or rig, with equipment (22) for handling and controlling a connection string (20) for downhole tools, and also a system (...	09/25/2008
20080135257	EXTRACTING GAS HYDRATES FROM MARINE SEDIMENTS A process for extracting hydrocarbon gases from marine sediment hydrates. In one embodiment, the process includes drilling from a sea floor into a hydrate rich subsea sediment to form at least one opening therein. Electrical heaters are inserted into the opening or open...	06/12/2008
20080135256	Subsea Manifold System An improved subsea manifold system that is capable of being used in an early production system for producing hydrocarbons from a plurality of wells from a common riser system. The subsea manifold is able to control the fluid from a multiple of subsea wet-tree wells whil...	06/12/2008
20080093081	Method for Managing Hydrates in Subssea Production Line A method for managing hydrates in a subsea production system is provided. The system has at least one producing subsea well, a jumper for delivering produced fluids from the subsea well to a manifold, a production line for delivering produced fluids to a production gath...	04/24/2008
20080035327	Method and frame A method of installing equipment subsea comprising the steps of: assembling the equipment within a frame; submerging in the sea at least a part of an assembly comprising the frame and the equipment; coupling the at least partially submerged assembly to a vessel; transpo...	02/14/2008
20070295509	INTEGRATED PUMP ASSEMBLY FOR WELL COMPLETION An integrated pump assembly for both delivering mud and cement slurry to a borehole during a well completion operation. The pump assembly includes separate mud and cement pumps for maintaining isolation between mud and cement slurry during different stages of the operat...	12/27/2007
20070235195	Subsea Flowline Jumper Containing ESP A subsea production system on a sea floor has a pump flowline jumper with a straight intermediate portion and two end portions. Each end portion has a connector for ROV assisted connection between production units. A submersible pump assembly is mounted in the straight ...	10/11/2007
20060021756	DRY TREE SUBSEA WELL COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS AND METHOD USING VARIABLE TENSION LARGE OFFSET RISERS Disclosed are compliant variable tension risers (106) to connect deep-water subsea wellheads (102) to a single floating platform (104). The variable tension risers (106) allow several subsea wellheads (102), in water depths from 4,000 ...	02/02/2006
20060016605	Motion compensator A motion compensator is used on a floating vessel servicing a subsea well. The motion compensator includes a first frame assembly adapted to be connected to a cable extending from a lifting structure. When connected to the cable, the first frame assembly extends longitu...	01/26/2006
20060000615	Infrastructure-independent deepwater oil field development concept A method for developing a sub-sea hydrocarbons field includes sub-sea wells, sub-sea oil/gas separation, storing the degassed oil in a storage tank located or the seabed, liquefying natural gas aboard a vessel using liquid nitrogen aboard the vessel to obtain liquefied ...	01/05/2006
20050211440	Offshore nitrogen production and injection Nitrogen is produced above an offshore hydrocarbon reservoir (12) and injected into the reservoir, by a complex (40) mounted on a previously used vessel hull (16). The vessel weathervanes and the complex includes equipment that takes in ordinary air...	09/29/2005
20050167116	Apparatus for production in oil wells The present invention discloses an apparatus that uses at least one injection pump (9) positioned in proximity to a subsea petroleum well (10) to provide hydraulic fluid for hydraulic pumping equipment positioned in the bottom of the well, in order to caus...	08/04/2005
20050016735	ROV retrievable sea floor pump A subsea pumping assembly locates on a seafloor for pumping well fluid from subsea wells to the level. The pumping assembly has a tubular outer housing that is at least partially embedded in the seafloor. A tubular primary housing locates in the outer housing and has a ...	01/27/2005

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