Expro North Sea Limited

Stephen Edmund Bruce

David Michael Shand

Tyler Rhes Reynolds

Tristam Paul Horn

An offshore method includes providing an elongate support string for extending between a mobile offshore drilling unit and a seabed location. The string has an upper portion and a lower portion, and an articulated joint is provided between the upper portion and the lower portion. The provision of the articulated joint maintains the lower portion of the elongate support string in a substantially vertical orientation and increases the safe operating radius of the mobile offshore drilling unit or increases the speed at which the unit may transit through the sea with objects suspended via the elongate support string.

Offshore drilling apparatus and methods

A coupling connects an inner string to a lower end of a bore-lining tubing, such as a liner. The coupling includes a catcher and may be provided in combination with at least one member for translating through the inner string and landing in the catcher. The member may be an occluding member, such as a ball for occluding a flow passage through the coupling.

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Blairgowrie, United Kingdom

Stephen Edmund Bruce