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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 1983
Filed:
Jul. 06, 1982
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert B Burns, Huntington, NY (US);
Assignee:
Texaco Development Corporation, White Plains, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
405 60 ; 405195 ; 405224 ;
Abstract
A tension leg platform system for use in drilling wellbores into the floor of an offshore body of water. Included in the system is a buoyancy control vessel having a plurality of pull down cables attached thereto which extend to the ocean floor. A plurality of spaced apart anchors disposed at the ocean floor are positioned to receive the lower ends of the respective pull down cables. A submergible hull slidably engages the respective hold down cables such that the hull can be controllably lowered to the ocean floor whereby a canopy carried on the hull will cover an uncontrollably flowing well to conduct the effluent to the water's surface.