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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2021
Applicant:
Benton Frederick Baugh, Houston, TX (US);
Inventor:
Benton Frederick Baugh, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 33/038 (2006.01); E21B 17/01 (2006.01); E21B 33/064 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 33/0385 (2013.01); E21B 17/01 (2013.01); E21B 33/064 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a subsea blowout preventer stack system connected to the surface with a drilling riser and with one or more control pods for control of the subsea blowout preventer stack, a method of providing a control umbilical of near neutral weight in the ocean water to provide control signals to the one or more control pods comprising providing a core of conductors such as wires and optical fibers, providing a flexible outer core comprising a mixture of resilient material and buoyant materials, providing a connector on the lower end of the umbilical.