Jonathan Machin - Gallop Gables, SG Jean-Bernard Blamengin - New Orleans LA, US Peter Nellessen - Missouri City TX, US
International Classification:
E21B 41/04
US Classification:
166349
Abstract:
An intervention system and method for control of seabed equipment, including a control umbilical connected to a support vessel or rig via a surface winch; a tether connected to underwater seabed equipment; and an umbilical management system unit coupled between the tether and the control umbilical to couple the support vessel or rig to the seabed equipment. The control umbilical and the tether via the umbilical management system unit provide a communications channel for communicating media, including data, electrical power, hydraulic power and/or chemical treatment fluid, from the support vessel or rig to the seabed equipment. The umbilical management system unit allows for easy deployment and management of the control umbilical and tether and can reel in or pay out the tether and/or the control umbilical under remote control or autonomously.
Control Of Underwater Actuators Using Ambient Pressure
A device for controlling an underwater actuator by using an ambient pressure potential at the operating depth may include a chamber including a first cavity, a second cavity and a third cavity; the first cavity including a gas at a first pressure including one of at surface atmospheric pressure, lower than surface atmospheric pressure, or a vacuum; the second cavity including a first fluid at a second pressure including at least one of at underwater ambient pressure or higher then underwater ambient pressure and being connected to a underwater fluid supply; the third cavity including a second fluid at a third pressure including at least one of underwater ambient pressure or higher than the underwater ambient pressure and being connected to the actuator.
Embodiments may generally take the form of a cable winch system installable within a riser on a landing string. In particular, one embodiment may take the form of a system having a tubular deployable within a riser and a cable winch deployable within a riser. The cable winch is configured to travel with the tubular as it is deployed within the riser.
Cable is stored a receptacle by a coiling mechanism. In the coiling mechanism, an arm receives the cable at an axis, and supports the cable as it passes from the axis to a feed end located at a point radially spaced from the axis. A cable driver forces the cable into the arm at the axis and toward the feed end. And an arm driver assists rotation of the arm about the axis while the cable is being forced into the arm at the axis.
The instant invention is a strap for installation over sheathing to hold the sheathing to an underlying structural frame member through the use of interconnecting bands and saddle. The saddle is positioned on the underside of a structural member and receives the bands. Tabs are provided at both ends of the sheathing strap to receive the connecting bands and are also used to align the strap with an underlying structural member. Patterns of through holes are provided in the strap as a fastener alignment guide and are to be used for installation of fasteners after the strap is aligned with the underlying structural member.
Subsea Well Intervention Lubricator And Method For Subsea Pumping
Jonathan Machin - Gallop Gables, SG Peter Nellessen - Missouri City TX, US
International Classification:
E21B 41/04
US Classification:
166344
Abstract:
A subsea well service system and method are presented for use with an subsea pump capable of flushing the well intervention lubricator of an underwater hydrocarbons production facility. The system essentially includes at least one pump placed at a subsea location in proximity to the well intervention lubricator, and at least one fluid reservoir connected to the pump.
Non-Obtrusive Methods Of Measuring Flows Into And Out Of A Subsea Well And Associated Systems
- Houston TX, US Colin Stuart BUCHAN - Katy TX, US Peter NELLESSEN - Palm Beach FL, US
International Classification:
E21B 47/00 E21B 47/04
Abstract:
A fluid level monitoring system comprising: a subsea well comprising a wellbore and a wellhead; a subsea well isolation device installed on the wellhead; and a fluid level monitoring device and associated methods.
A subsea actuator comprising a plurality of chambers and at least three pressure levels, including an ambient pressure (medium), a substantially higher than ambient pressure (high), and an at or near surface atmospheric pressure or at a partial or full vacuum (low) to achieve a precise control of the actuator's closing force, speed, and stroke/position. The actuator enables full operations in emergency situations via manual or ROV operations; and can be operated (one way) to extend without supplied fluids in the event of high pressure failure emergency.
Shell Feb 2013 - Sep 2015
Subsea Engineering Consultant- Riserless Subsea Well Abandonment
Underwater Solutions Feb 2013 - Sep 2015
Subsea Engineering Consultant Lockheed Martin
Schlumberger Aug 2010 - Jan 2013
Project Manager and Subsea Systems Architect
Schlumberger Jan 2008 - Aug 2010
Project Lead
Underwater Solutions Sep 1986 - Jan 2008
President
Education:
University of Houston 1983 - 1985
Master of Business Administration, Masters, General Business
University of Miami 1967 - 1969
Bachelor of Science In Mechanical Engineering, Bachelors, Mechanical Engineering
Broward College 1965 - 1967
Associates
Skills:
Subsea Engineering Engineering Offshore Drilling Project Engineering Drilling Hydraulics Petroleum Engineering Management Oil/Gas Project Management Upstream Completion Engineering Design Offshore Operations Commissioning Oilfield Pipelines Energy Industry Gas Energy Metal Fabrication Pressure Vessels Pumps Oil and Gas Industry Feed Epc Control Systems Design Instrumentation Offshore Underwater Petroleum Engineering Onshore Asme Procurement Inspection Engineers Pressure Subsea Welding Downstream Oil and Gas Field Development Business Analysis Completions Project Execution Submersibles Submarines Military Subsea Systems Oil&Gas Fabrication Construction Management