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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2006
Shankar Uluvana Bhat, Houston, TX (US);
John Christian Hartley Mungall, Houston, TX (US);
Kevin Gerard Haverty, Houston, TX (US);
David Brian Andersen, Houston, TX (US);
William Lewis Greiner, Houston, TX (US);
Shankar Uluvana Bhat, Houston, TX (US);
John Christian Hartley Mungall, Houston, TX (US);
Kevin Gerard Haverty, Houston, TX (US);
David Brian Andersen, Houston, TX (US);
William Lewis Greiner, Houston, TX (US);
Kellogg Brown & Root LLC, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are compliant variable tension risers () to connect deep-water subsea wellheads () to a single floating platform (). The variable tension risers () allow several subsea wellheads (), in water depths from 4,000 to 10,000 feet, at lateral offsets from one-tenth to one-half of the depth, to tie back to a single floating dry tree semi-submersible platform ().