Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120024534 | SUBSEA MACHINE AND METHODS FOR SEPARATING COMPONENTS OF A MATERIAL STREAM Systems and methods include using a subsea machine for separating a mixture received from a seabed well. The subsea machine includes: a chamber configured to receive and separate by gravity the mixture received from the seabed well. The chamber includes: a housing confi... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120024391 | USE OF UNDERGROUND GAS STORAGE TO PROVIDE A FLOW ASSURANCE BUFFER BETWEEN INTERLINKED PROCESSING UNITS A system for developing one or more offshore hydrocarbon fields includes at least one floating hydrocarbon processing unit moored to the seabed and connected to a hydrocarbon reservoir via a riser and a wellhead on the seabed, the unit receiving and processing the hydro... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120012328 | Dual gradient pipeline evacuation method The method of removing a first liquid from a subsea pipeline which has a central portion lower than each of the ends of the subsea pipeline by pumping a second lower density fluid into the pipeline and the either removing the second lower density fluid by either displac... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20110290500 | Apparatus and Method for Recovering Fluids From a Well and/or Injecting Fluids Into a Well Methods and apparatus for diverting fluids either into or from a well are described. Some embodiments include a diverter conduit that is located in a bore of a tree. The invention relates especially but not exclusively to a diverter assembly connected to a wing branch o... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110232912 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYDRAULICALLY POWERING A SEAFLOOR PUMP FOR DELIVERING PRODUCED FLUID FROM A SUBSEA WELL A system and method for hydraulically powering a seafloor pump and thereby delivering produced fluid from a subsea well are provided. The system includes a power fluid source, such as a seawater source, which is located at a seasurface location of a sea, and a hydraulic... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110155384 | SUBSEA FLUID SEPARATOR The present application is directed to a subsea separator. The subsea separator suitably comprises (a) a housing having an inlet for receiving a fluid mixture, a non-gaseous fluid outlet located along the housing at a point lower than the inlet, and a gas outlet located... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110155385 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUBSEA PROCESSING OF MULTIPHASE WELL EFFLUENTS A method and system are disclosed for subsea processing multiphase well effluents comprising natural gas and liquid from a subsea hydrocarbon containing formation, which system (1) comprises: —a fluid separation vessel (6) which is connected to a downstr... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110120721 | Separation of Drill Cuttings from Drilling Fluid on a Seabed A method and device for recovering drilling fluid used in connection with the provision of a subsea well, in which the drilling fluid is circulated from a vessel on a sea surface via a drill string and out through a drill bit into an annulus which is defined by a boreho... | 05/26/2011 |
| 20110042093 | PUMPING MODULE AND SYSTEM This invention relates to equipment and a subsea pumping system using a subsea module installed on the sea bed, preferably away from a production well and intended to pump hydrocarbons having a high associated gas fraction produced by one or more subsea production wells... | 02/24/2011 |
| 20110024124 | Caisson Two-Phase Emulsion Reducer A seafloor pump assembly is installed within a caisson that has an upper end for receiving a flow of fluid containing gas and liquid. The pump assembly is enclosed within a shroud that has an upper end that seals around the pump assembly and a lower end that is below th... | 02/03/2011 |
| 20100155075 | METHOD FOR LIQUID CONTROL IN MULTIPHASE FLUID PIPELINES A method for control of liquid or liquid slugs in multi phase fluid pipelines, including a multiphase pipeline for the transportation of a fluid, consisting of mainly gas and some liquid such as water an/or gas condensate. The gas is evacuated via a gas separation unit ... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20090301729 | Device for Controlling Slugging A device for inhibiting severe slug flow in a multiphase fluid stream flowing through a pipeline and into a riser, wherein, the device is positioned immediately upstream of the riser and comprises at least one unit comprising (i) an upwardly inclined section of pipe hav... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090211764 | Vertical Annular Separation and Pumping System With Outer Annulus Liquid Discharge Arrangement A system for producing hydrocarbon fluids from a subsea formation comprises at least one producing well (1) penetrating the formation (2) for producing hydrocarbon fluids. At least one dummy well (7) is hydraulically connected to the at least one pr... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090211763 | Vertical Annular Separation and Pumping System with Integrated Pump Shroud and Baffle A Vertical Annular Separation and Pumping System (VASPS) utilizing an isolation baffle to replace a standard pump shroud associated with an electrical submersible pump. The isolation baffle may be a one piece plate positioned so as to direct produced wellbore liquids ar... | 08/27/2009 |
| 20090065194 | Downhole Sliding Sleeve Combination Tool Systems and methods for the production of hydrocarbons from a wellbore. One or more combination tools can be disposed along a casing string inserted into a wellbore. Each combination tool can contain a body having a bore formed therethrough; a sliding sleeve at least pa... | 03/12/2009 |
| 20090008089 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A HYBRID PETROLEUM EXTRACTOR/POWER GENERATOR A control system and control method for controlling a modular apparatus for extracting petroleum and/or generating electricity based on subsurface data as well as market prices of electricity and/or petroleum. One or more probes measure subsurface total pressure, partia... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080264645 | APPARATUS FOR MITIGATING SLUGGING IN FLOWLINE SYSTEMS A system for mitigating slugging in the conveyance of hydrocarbons in a flowline includes a first portion of flowline that extends substantially longitudinally along a declining surface. The first flowline portion carries multiphase hydrocarbons. A second portion of flo... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080245528 | Separating Device The invention comprises a sealing body (15)-separatingseparating device) which can be used to separate fluids in risers used in offshore oil production from drilling vessels at the sea surface. The invention is characterized in that the sealing body (15) c... | 10/09/2008 |
| 20080210434 | Subsea Tanker Hydrocarbon Production System A subsea and modular tanker-based hydrocarbon production system comprising a plurality of interlinked individual tank units which is wholly submersible, is wholly detachable from, and wholly re-attachable to, its associated subsea wellhead infrastructure. Modularity of ... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20080210432 | System and Vessel for Supporting Offshore Fields A system for supporting multiple-well-site, offshore, hydrocarbon-bearing fields, each well-site has one or more wells. In general, the system first comprises a floating vessel that is relocatable from a first subsea well-site to a second subsea well-site. The system al... | 09/04/2008 |
| 20070251695 | Sub-sea well intervention vessel and method A sub-sea well intervention vessel includes a dynamically positionable tanker and direct well intervention equipment mounted on the tanker deck. The intervention equipment includes drilling equipment for performing underbalanced drilling and hydrocarbon liquid separatio... | 11/01/2007 |
| 20070131429 | Subsea well separation and reinjection system A subsea well assembly has a string of casing with perforations leading to a producing zone and perforations leading to an injection zone. A string of production tubing extends into the casing in communication with the producing formation. A barrier separates the interi... | 06/14/2007 |
| 20070107907 | System and Method for Controlling Subsea Wells A technique is provided for control of subsea well systems. The technique utilizes a subsea controller coupled to a plurality of subsea well system components to allow localized control of the subsea well system. The subsea controller can be used in a variety of functio... | 05/17/2007 |
| 20070102369 | Pipe separator with improved separation A pipe separator for separation of fluids, for example separation of oil, gas and water in connection with the extraction and production of oil and gas from formations under the sea bed. It comprises an extended, tubular separator body (1) that has a diameter at ... | 05/10/2007 |
| 20070056740 | System and method for processing drilling cuttings during offshore drilling A cuttings processing system processes return fluid recovered while drilling a wellbore at an offshore location. The processing system includes a separator having an inlet receiving the return fluid, an accelerator coupled to the inlet that accelerates the return fluid,... | 03/15/2007 |
| 20070029091 | Subsea compression system and method A subsea compression system and method wherein a wellstream fluid is flowed through a flow line (12) from a reservoir (10) and into a separation vessel (16) for subsequent compression in a compressor (18; 18′, 18″) prior to export of gas.... | 02/08/2007 |
| 20060226077 | Integrated water decontamination plant and well pump arrangement The present invention removes contaminants from well water without creating the problem of large volumes of waste liquid disposal. It uses double-cone devices (102, 116, 125) as pressure amplifiers which due to their lack of moving parts avoid the risk of additio... | 10/12/2006 |
| 20060175063 | Method and apparatus for a cold flow subsea hydrocarbon production system A system for assuring subsea hydrocarbon production flow in pipelines by chilling the hydrocarbon production flow in a heat exchanger and causing solids to form, periodically removing deposits and placing them in a slurry utilizing a closed loop pig launching and receiv... | 08/10/2006 |
| 20060157251 | Subsea compressor module and a method for controlling the pressure in such a subsea compressor module A subsea gas compressor module having a housing comprising a sealing element generally defining within the pressure housing a first compartment holding as compressor and a second compartment holding an electric motor, the compressor and motor being driveably connected b... | 07/20/2006 |
| 20060124313 | Pipe separator for the separation of fluids, particularly oil, gas and water A pipe separator for the separation of fluids, for example separation of oil, gas and water in connection with the extraction and production of oil and gas from formations beneath the sea bed, comprising a pipe-shaped separator body (1) with an inlet and outlet t... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060011348 | Drilling and producing deep water subsea wells Subsea wells are drilled and completed with an offshore floating platform in a manner that allows simultaneous work on more than one well. A first well is drilled and casing. Then a tubing hanger is run through a drilling riser and landed in the wellhead housing. Then, ... | 01/19/2006 |
| 20050145388 | Subsea process assembly A subsea process assembly for separating a multiphase flow, the assembly comprising: an inlet for a multiphase medium; a pressure reducing means for reducing the pressure of the multiphase flow from the inlet and creating a source of energy; a multiphase separator for s... | 07/07/2005 |
| 20050126789 | System and method for fail-safe disconnect from a subsea well A system and method for controllably separating a conduit into an upper portion and a lower portion. The system includes a first valve in the upper portion of the conduit above a point of separation, and a second valve in the lower portion of the conduit below the point... | 06/16/2005 |
| 20050117974 | Engineered material buoyancy system and device There is provided a buoyancy system for a structure having at least one component being substantially stationary with respect to the bottom of a water covered area. The system comprises a set of buoyancy modules of engineered materials to apply an identified amount of b... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050072574 | System and method for injecting gas into a hydrocarbon reservoir Gas is supplied from a host facility (2) to an underwater gas compressor (10) via a connecting pipeline (6) and the gas compressor is connected to a plurality of gas injection wells (7) for a hydrocarbon reservoir via well supply flowlines (8... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050072301 | Procedure and apparatus for collection of free methane gas from the sea bottom The present invention is referring to a procedure and an apparatus for collection of free methane gas from the sea bottom, destined to collect and liquefy the methane gas liberated from metastabile deposits of hydrate methane situated on the seas or oceans bottom. The p... | 04/07/2005 |
| 20050061514 | Well drilling and completions system A system for use in down hole operations, the system comprising a wellhead; a BOP ram package connected at one end to the wellhead and having an axial bore extending from the wellhead to the other end; a device above the other end of the BOP ram package for isolating th... | 03/24/2005 |
| 20050034869 | Method and system for handling producing fluid Production fluid is received in a seabed facility (3) from a hydrocarbon reservoir and water is separated from the production fluid by a fluid separator vessel (15) in the seabed facility (3). The production fluid is then conveyed to a host facility... | 02/17/2005 |
