Conocophillips Company

Keppel Offshore & Marine Technology

Dominique P Berta

Randall Scott Shafer

Peter George Noble

Ravi P Aurora

Thomas E Ramsey

Ted H Westerman

Kok Seng Foo

Amal C Phadke

Chin Kau Quah

Khalid A Soofi

Cynthia Wang

Tak On Cheung

Chad A Petrash

Rolf Christer Broman

Yew Yuen Chow

Michael B Winfree

Zhihao George Gu

Ivica T Grgas

Anthony W Ray

Dexter A Burleigh

Jerry C Phillips

A subsea facility for hydrocarbon recovery in deep waters and methods of installation are provided. More specifically, the subsea facility equipment is on multiple modules equipped with a buoyancy system to allow the modules to sink to the sea floor. The modules can be attached and unattached to each other, thus allowing for a module to be raised to the surface for repairs without affecting the rest of the subsea facility.

Flotable subsea platform (FSP)

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV) collect and transmit information about ice floe thickness; this is combined with SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR images from satellites to identify and track dangerously thick regions of ice. The overlayed data is presented graphically to allow tracking of the thick ice regions over time. This information is used to alert drilling platforms in icy ocean conditions of pending ice floe dangers.

Ice data collection, processing and visualization system

A system for the detection, containment and removal of hydrocarbon leaks in a subsea environment.

System for detecting, containing and removing hydrocarbon leaks in a subsea environment

An ice worthy jack-up rig that may extend the drilling season in shallow water off shore Arctic or ice prone locations. The rig would work like a conventional jack-up rig while in open water with the hull jacked up out of the water. However, in the event of ice conditions, the legs are held in place by cans embedded in the sea floor to resist lateral movement of the rig and the hull is lowered into the water into an ice defensive configuration. The hull is specifically shaped with an ice-bending surface to bend and break up ice that comes in contact with the hull while in the ice defensive configuration.

Ice worthy jack-up drilling unit with gas agitated ice prevention

The invention relates to a jack-up rig. The inventive rig would work like a conventional jack-up rig while in open water with the hull jacked up out of the water. However, in the event of ice conditions, the hull is lowered into the water into an ice defensive configuration. The hull is specifically shaped with a lower portion that is an ice-bending surface to bend and break up ice that comes in contact with the hull while in the ice defensive configuration. Furthermore, the jack-up rig comprises at least two derricks.

Dual-derrick ice-worthy jack-up drilling unit

The invention relates to an ice worthy jack-up rig with a conical piled monopod working together to drill wells and produce hydrocarbons in ice prone locations. The inventive rig would work like a conventional jack-up rig while in open water with the hull jacked up out of the water. However, in the event of ice conditions, the legs are held in place by cans embedded in the sea floor to resist lateral movement of the rig. Both the hull and conical piled monopod are shaped with ice-bending surfaces to bend and break up ice that comes into contact.

Ice worthy jack-up drilling unit with conical piled monopod

A jack-up rig while in open water operates with the hull jacked up out of the water. However, in the event of ice conditions, the legs are held in place by cans embedded in the sea floor to resist lateral movement of the rig and the hull is lowered into the water into an ice defensive configuration. The hull is specifically shaped with an ice-bending surface to bend and break up ice that comes in contact with the hull while in the ice defensive configuration.

Ice worthy jack-up drilling unit with pre-loading tension system

A conical piled monopod provides a fixed, ice worthy structure used in cold weather offshore environments for accessing hydrocarbon deposits under the seafloor.

Conical piled monopod

The invention relates to an ice worthy jack-up rig with a conical piled monopod working together to drill wells and produce hydrocarbons in ice prone locations. The inventive rig would work like a conventional jack-up rig while in open water with the hull jacked up out of the water. However, in the event of ice conditions, the legs are held in place by cans embedded in the sea floor to resist lateral movement of the rig and in sockets attached to the conical piled monopod. Both the hull and conical piled monopod are shaped with ice-bending surfaces to bend and break up ice that comes into contact.

Ice worthy jack-up drilling unit with conical piled monopod and sockets

A system operates like a conventional jack-up rig while in open water with the hull jacked up out of the water. However, in the event of ice conditions, the legs are held in place by cans embedded in the sea floor to resist lateral movement of the rig and the hull is lowered into the water into an ice defensive configuration. The hull is specifically shaped with an ice-bending surface to bend and break up ice that comes in contact with the hull while in the ice defensive configuration.

Ice worthy jack-up drilling unit with gas agitation and leg ice shields

The invention provides a system and method for managing related information generated by a plurality of individuals. The information management system includes a data repository adapted to store related data tied to a key parameter field, and at least one application server coupled to the data repository and adapted to provide a plurality of applications to a plurality of users. Each of the applications is adapted to generate at least some data having the key parameter field, and the at least one server is adapted to retrieve and update data when any one of the applications uses and generates data having the key parameter field. The method for managing information includes serving a plurality of applications to respective users, wherein the applications are adapted to generate data tied to a key parameter field. The method also includes storing the data generated by each application and updating any of the data having the key parameter field when one of the applications is used to modify any of the stored data having the key parameter field. The method also includes serving the updated data to any of the other applications when the application retrieves the data having the key parameter field.

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Katy, TX, United States of America

Dominique P Berta