499 results about "Offshore drilling" patented technology

A subsea gas separation system use in drilling an offshore well includes a subsea blowout preventor connected to the well and a gas separator connected to the blowout preventor near the seafloor. Gas released into the well bore during a well control event is removed at the separator and not returned with the drilling mud recirculated to the surface. A method offshore drilling includes a mud circulation circuit established leading down the drill string, through the drill bit, up the borehole, through a subsea pump, and to the surface through a return riser. The subsea pump is protected during critical well control events by removing gas released into the mud at a gas separator located upstream of the subsea pump and in communication with the blowout preventor.

An arrangement and method for integrating a high pressure riser sleeve from the upper end of a high pressure drilling and workover riser terminated by an upper BOP close to sea level in one end and by a sub-sea blowout preventer BOP or a low riser package LRP close to the seabed in the lower end. The high pressure riser sleeve being installed, connected and integrated to the high pressure drilling and workover riser and extending up to and above the drill floor, inside a low pressure drilling riser slip joint which is connected to the drilling and workover riser. This relates to offshore drilling and well activities preformed from a floating drilling or workover rig or vessel. Operations can be switched from drilling with jointed drillpipe in a conventional manner, into performing underbalanced wireline and / or coiled tubing activities with full well pressure, much more effectively than with prior art.

A method is disclosed for offshore drilling in which a bit is driven at a far end of a drill string, drilling fluid is injected into the drill string from surface drilling facilities, and drilling fluid passes through the far end of the drill string and flushes the borehole at the bit and entrains cuttings into the drilling fluid which circulates up the casing / drill string annulus. The drilling fluid drawn off near the mudline and is treated through a subsea primary processing stage to removing the cuttings from the drilling fluid. The treated drilling fluid is then returned to the surface with a subsea return pump system and passes to surface drilling facilities for injection and recirculation.

There is provided a high power laser-riser blowout preventer package and laser module for use with a subsea riser. The laser module and laser-riser package use high power laser energy to quickly cut the riser permitting an offshore drilling rig to quickly, and in a controlled manner disconnect from a blowout preventer.

The present invention generally relates to an apparatus and a method of transmitting data from a rotating control device. In one aspect, a method of transmitting data from a rotating control device coupled to an offshore drilling unit is provided. The method includes the step of generating data relating to a parameter associated with the rotating control device. The method further includes the step of transmitting the data from a transmitting assembly coupled to the rotating control device to a receiving assembly positioned proximate the transmitting assembly. Additionally, the method includes the step of transmitting the data from the receiving assembly to the offshore drilling unit. In another aspect, a data gathering and transmitting system for use with a rotating control device coupled to an offshore drilling unit is provided. In a further aspect, a method for transmitting data generated in a rotating control device coupled to a riser is provided.

The invention relates to a fluorocarbon nanometer solar heat-insulation reflective paint, a preparation method thereof and a using method thereof. The paint can be used for roofs and glass curtain walls of the building industry, offshore drilling platforms, oil tanks and petroleum pipelines of the petroleum industry, the surfaces of cars and trains of the transportation industry, hulls and decks of the ship-building industry, and the tanks and warships of the weapon and aerospace industry. The fluorocarbon nanometer solar heat-insulation reflective paint comprises a component A and a component B, wherein the component A comprises the following materials in percentage by weight: 40%-70% of fluorocarbon resin, 1%-10% of nanometer TiO2 concentrated slurry, 10%-30% of infrared-ray reflective pigment, 3%-10% of hollow micro beads, 1%-5% of auxiliaries and 10%-20% of organic solvent; and the component B is cross-linking agent. The preparation method for the fluorocarbon nanometer solar heat-insulation reflective paint comprises the following steps: 1) preparing, dispersing and grinding the materials of the component A in proportion until the fineness is lower than 30 microns; and 2) mixing and curing the component A and the component B to prepare the fluorocarbon nanometer solar heat-insulation reflective paint. The fluorocarbon nanometer solar heat-insulation reflective paint provided by the invention is suitable for normal-temperature drying or low-temperature baking and drying; moreover, a coating film formed by the paint has the characteristics such as high reflectivity, a good heat-insulation effect, high corrosion prevention, high weather resistance, high self-cleanness, low friction and the like.

The invention discloses a human body action recognition method based on a TP-STG framework, which comprises the following steps: taking video information as input, adding priori knowledge into an SVMclassifier, and providing a posteriori discrimination criterion to remove a non-personnel target; segmenting a personnel target through a target positioning and detection algorithm, outputting the personnel target in a target frame and coordinate information mode, and providing input data for human body key point detection; utilizing an improved posture recognition algorithm to carry out body partpositioning and correlation degree analysis so as to extract all human body key point information and form a key point sequence; a space-time graph is constructed on a key point sequence through an action recognition algorithm, the space-time graph is applied to multi-layer space-time graph convolution operation, action classification is carried out through a Softmax classifier, and human body action recognition in a complex scene is achieved. According to the method, the actual scene of the ocean platform is combined for the first time, and the provided TP-STG framework tries to identify worker activities on the offshore drilling platform for the first time by using methods of target detection, posture identification and space-time diagram convolution.

A method and apparatus for deployment of mooring systems for buoyant marine structure such as mobile offshore drilling units (MODU's) and for connecting the same to the mooring lines thereof. An anchor handling vessel carries one or more anchors each having a deployment connection and a mooring connection and individually moves each anchor over its stern roller and deploys it to the sea bottom for installation. A handling line is disconnected by ROV from the deployment connection and is moved from the deployment connection to the mooring connection so as to become the main mooring line. Syntactic buoys are then mounted on the main mooring line for elevating it above the sea bottom for recovery. When MODU stationing is desired the anchor handling vessel then recovers the surface buoy and connects to the rig mooring line using a short section of mooring chain. A J-chaser stopper device is then installed in the mooring string and is connected to the mooring line of the MODU by a short section of chain. The J-chaser lowers the mooring string, completing the mooring connection between the anchor and the MODU. A plurality of mooring strings, typically eight, are deployed in this manner to properly station the MODU. Disconnection of the MODU is accomplished essentially by the reverse of the above deployment procedure.

Platform for drilling after or production of hydrocarbons at sea, consisting of a semi-submersible platform body which supports drilling and / or production equipment on its upper surface. The platform body is designed as a vertical mainly flat bottomed cylinder which is provided with at least one peripheral circular cut-out in the lower section of the cylinder since the centre of buoyancy for the submerged section of the platform is positioned lower than the centre of gravity of the platform.

A riser assembly for offshore drilling has an inner conduit suspended within an outer riser. A seal assembly seals an annular space between the inner conduit and the riser at the lower end of the inner conduit. The seal assembly has a pressure area that is independent of the inner conduit, so that any forces acting on the assembly due to pressure in the annulus below the seal assembly pass through the assembly to the riser and not to the inner conduit.

A tool for multiple purposes features one ore more dogs that can engage a collar groove or restriction sub in the wellbore. The dogs are extendable through a sleeve biased in opposed directions and are supported from a mandrel. The dogs can retract into mandrel grooves to clear restrictions on the trip into the well. On the way up to a collar that has just been passed, the dogs engage and an upward pull on the mandrel displaces fluid through a restriction to allow enough time to get a meaningful surface signal of the overpull force. Thereafter, the applied force can be reduced as the dogs release at a lower applied force to reduce the slingshot effect. The tool can be inverted and used to keep a constant force on a bottom hole assembly during offshore drilling where a heave compensator is employed.

In an offshore drilling facility, apparatus is disclosed comprising: a drilling floor centralizer for receiving the upper end of a string of drilling riser sections; a moonpool centralizer for receiving another portion of the drilling riser; and at least one roto-track, removably and rotationally carried by at least one of the pin end of one drilling riser section and the box end of the adjacent drilling riser section, for extending the outer diameter of each of the adjacent ends to the outer diameter of the adjacent drilling risers sections intermediate the ends of the drilling riser sections.

A fire barrier system for use in aircraft, ship or offshore drilling platform comprises a flexible graphite sheet. Methods of providing fire barrier protection in an aircraft, ship or offshore drilling platform comprise installing the described fire barrier system in the aircraft, ship or offshore drilling platform. Additionally, the fire barrier system when installed in the aircraft, ship or offshore drilling platform is described.

The invention discloses a thrust distribution method for a power positioning system of an offshore drilling platform, which solves the problem of thrust distribution optimization of the power positioning system by applying a particle swarm algorithm through taking minimized propulsion system power consumption and a thrust error as target functions of the thrust distribution optimization and considering the thrust, thrust change rate, azimuth change rate and constriction conditions of a thrust forbidden sector. The method comprises the following steps of setting input quantity of the thrust distribution, including vertical resultant force, transverse resultant force and yawing moment, as given parameters; setting the thrust amplitude and direction of each thruster as unknown variables, namely, solutions to be optimized; analyzing platform stress, wherein the resultant forces and resultant force moments generated by all the thruster are equal to the input quantity of the thrust distribution; and building a thrust distribution mathematical model according to the distribution of offshore drilling platform thrusters and applying the particle swarm algorithm to solve the problem of thrust distribution optimization. The thrust distribution method has no special requirements to the target functions of the thrust distribution and less parameter to be regulated, is simple in operation, easy for realizing and fast in calculation speed, so that the requirement of high real-time capability of the power positioning system is fulfilled.

An offshore structure having a vertically symmetric hull, an upper vertical wall, an upper inwardly-tapered wall disposed below the upper vertical wall, a lower outwardly-tapered wall disposed below the upper sloped wall, and a lower vertical wall disposed below the lower sloped wall. The upper and lower sloped walls produce significant heave damping in response to heavy wave action. A heavy slurry of hematite and water ballast is added to the lower and outermost portions of the hull to lower the center of gravity below the center of buoyancy. The offshore structure provides one or more movable hawser connections that allow a tanker vessel to moor directly to the offshore structure during offloading rather than mooring to a separate buoy at some distance from the offshore storage structure. The movable hawser connection includes an arcuate rail with a movable trolley that provides a hawser connection point that allows vessel weathervaning.

The connection system allows to assemble two sections of a riser pipe used for offshore drilling, the riser pipe comprising a main tube and at least one auxiliary line arranged parallel to said tube. The connection system comprises a connector A for assembling two main tube sections and connecting means B1 for assembling two auxiliary line sections.Connecting means B1 are arranged, with respect to connector A, in such a way that the overall dimensions E of the connection system are smaller than the sum of the overall dimensions EA of the connector and of the overall dimensions EB1 of the connecting means.

A method and apparatus for deployment of mooring systems for buoyant marine structures such as mobile offshore drilling units (MODU's) and for connecting the same to the mooring lines thereof. An anchor handling vessel carries one or more anchors each having a deployment connection and a mooring connection and individually moves each anchor over its stem roller and deploys it to the sea bottom for installation. A handling line is disconnected by ROV from the deployment connection and is moved from the deployment connection to the mooring connection so as to become the main mooring line. Syntactic buoys are then mounted on the main mooring line for elevating it above the sea bottom for recovery. When MODU stationing is desired the anchor handling vessel then recovers the surface buoy and connects to the rig mooring line using a short section of mooring chain. A J-chaser stopper device is then installed in the mooring string and is connected to the mooring line of the MODU by a short section of chain. The J-chaser lowers the mooring string, completing the mooring connection between the anchor and the MODU. A plurality of mooring strings, typically eight, are deployed in this manner to properly station the MODU. Disconnection of the MODU is accomplished essentially by the reverse of the above deployment procedure.

A system for reducing the effects of heave movements of a wellhead in an offshore drilling device is provided that includes a frame; a coiled tubing stack supported by the frame; and a heave compensation system for controlling an amount of load transferred from the coiled tubing stack to the wellhead to reduce relative movements between the coiled tubing stack and the wellhead.

The invention discloses a heavy corrosion resistant, heat insulating and static conductive coating, which is prepared by the following steps of: dissolving acrylic acid modified epoxy resin which is taken as a substrate into active and inactive diluents in a way of taking liquid polysulfide rubber as a toughening agent in the presence of a functional pigment and an aid to prepare a first component; preparing a second component in a way of taking cashew nut shell liquid-synthesized modified amine as a curing agent under the cooperation of an accelerator and a hydrophilic agent; and mixing the first and second components in the weight ratio of 2:1. The heavy corrosion resistant, heat insulating and static conductive coating has the characteristics of no solvent, high adhesive power, high static conductivity, heavy corrosion resistance, high heat-insulating property, environmental friendliness, non-toxicity, wet rusty thick coating capability, great coating cost reduction, and applicability to the corrosion-resistant coating of inner and outer walls of large oil tanks, ballast tanks of ships, offshore drilling platforms, bridges, open petrochemical equipment, ships, high-speed trains and the like.

Apparatus in fluid communication with a water leg portion of a hydrocarbon-contaminated water, e.g., a water leg portion of a produced water stream or an offshore drilling or production platform sump tank for conveying water, separated from oil, into contact with non-woven fiber / particulate polymer coalescing media-containing canisters such that the hydrocarbon droplets and other organic material droplets commingled with the sump tank or produced water will be coalesced by passage through the coalescing media. The canisters preferably are provided in a plurality of stacks in each vessel. Solids that do not pass through the canisters are accumulated at the bottom of the vessel and easily drained through a drain port. The water and hydrocarbons will pass through the coalescing media within the canisters and will be separated easily from each vessel, e.g., by gravity separation, sot that the water can be conveyed back to the ocean water without contamination.

A borehole entry apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a dual entry apparatus for use in borehole entry applications, such as slick line and / or wireline (electric wireline) applications. Exemplary embodiments of this invention enable first and second borehole entry apparatuses, such as slick line and wireline tool assemblies, to be simultaneously coupled to a well head. Use of the invention tends to advantageously save rig time and thus reduce the cost of slick line and wireline operations, in particular on a deep-water offshore drilling rig.

The invention relates to a wire rope lubricating grease composition having dual effects of lubrication and anti-corrosion. The composition comprises the following components: 51.0 % to 72.5 % of No. 2 composite calcium sulfonate grease, 25.0 to 38.0 % of low-freezing-point base oil, 0.2 to 1.0 % of diphenylamine, 1.3 to 5.5 % of colloidal graphite and 1.0 to 4.5 % of ozocerite. According to the invention, the composite uses the specific composite calcium sulfonate grease as a base oil, and is added with the low-freezing-point base oil and various additives to further improve performance such as low-temperature resistance, anti-oxidation, wear resistance, and water resistance of the product, so that the wire rope lubricating grease having dual effects of lubrication and anti-corrosion can be obtained. The lubricating grease has dual effects of lubrication and anti-corrosion, and can delay corrosion and wearing speed of the wire rope. The product is suitable for lubrication and protection of various wire ropes under ocean climate conditions such as seaport, marine ship, offshore drilling platforms, etc.

The invention provides a seabed lateral deformation and sliding observation device and method. The seabed lateral deformation and sliding observation device comprises an auxiliary ship and a seabed observation system, wherein the auxiliary ship is provided with an offshore drilling rig and a lifting device, and the seabed observation system is provided with a displacement measurement device, a data acquisition sealing cabin and a subsidence prevention frame. The displacement measurement device is of a rod joint combination structure with a cable, each joint point is provided with a three-axis acceleration sensor, and the displacement deviation of each joint point can be calculated according to the posture change of the corresponding three-axis acceleration sensor. The method includes the steps that the auxiliary ship is utilized for drilling a target point position so that the seabed observation system can be arranged, the seabed lateral deformation and sliding are observed and recorded through the displacement measurement device in the seabed observation system, fishing and recycling are conducted after the in-situ observation cycle is ended, and the deformation amount and the deformation process of seabed soil can be obtained by analyzing data. The seabed lateral deformation and sliding observation device and method provide a new thought and a new method for seabed lateral deformation and sliding observation and have the advantages of being long in observation cycle, capable of being repeatedly used, wide in observation range, high in accuracy and the like.

A tool for multiple purposes features one ore more dogs that can engage a collar groove or restriction sub in the wellbore. The dogs are extendable through a sleeve biased in opposed directions and are supported from a mandrel. The dogs can retract into mandrel grooves to clear restrictions on the trip into the well. On the way up to a collar that has just been passed, the dogs engage and an upward pull on the mandrel displaces fluid through a restriction to allow enough time to get a meaningful surface signal of the overpull force. Thereafter, the applied force can be reduced as the dogs release at a lower applied force to reduce the slingshot effect. The tool can be inverted and used to keep a constant force on a bottom hole assembly during offshore drilling where a heave compensator is employed.

The invention relates to a self-fixed zinc-rich primer using for anticorrosion inside an oil tank and a preparation method thereof. The self-fixed zinc-rich primer comprises A solution which consists of tetraethyl orthosilicate, butanol, ethanol, butyl acetate, dibasic ester, 36-38 percent of hydrochloride and distilled water, and B solution which consists of polyvinyl butyral (PVB), butanol, ethanol, zinc powder, ultrafine ferrophosphorus powder, mica powder, fly ash, alkoxy ammonium salt with acidic group and block copolymers, and polysiloxane-polyether copolymer, when in use, the A solution and the B solution are mixed and solidified to form a paint film which is characterized by self-repairing, corrosion resistance, solvent resistance, static conducting, rapid drying and good construction adaptability, etc. The self-fixed zinc-rich primer can be used for surface anticorrosion treatment of steel structures used in inner walls and outer walls of various storage tanks and offshore drilling platforms, etc.

The invention provides a tunnel forepoling air circulating drilling construction method. The construction steps are as follows: a driller is firstly installed and is moved to the appointed hole position along a track, according to the tunnel position line, the position angle of the driller is adjusted to ensure that the driller is parallel with the tunnel position line, the driller is fastened with a frame; an air compressor is turned on, the wind pressure is controlled above 0.4MPa, and then the driller is turned on to ensure that a drill pipe drills towards the earth at a constant speed, the compressed air is sent to an aiguille part through an internal cavity of the drill pipe and air-cools the aiguille, drilling cuttings are blown out of the drill hole from the gap between the drill pipe and the earth; the inner part of the aiguille is provided with a guide drilling device; finally, the hole drilling is finished and the grout is cast, the grout is cast into the inner cavity of the drill pipe by a casting pipe, the grout is filled into the inner cavity of the drill pipe and the ring-shaped gap out of the drill pipe, and the next hole position is turned to construct. The tunnel forepoling air circulating drilling construction method solves the problems of low security and slow drilling of the earth layer, especially the fourth new loess area pipe roofing timbering construction, can avoid the landslide and minimize the potential safety hazard.

The invention relates to a hydraulic automatic leveling system and a hydraulic automatic leveling method for a seabed drilling machine. The leveling system comprises support plates, large arms, chains, hydraulic cylinder legs, a base and a hydraulic system, wherein the base supports the drilling machine, and is connected with the hydraulic cylinder legs; the large arms are connected with the hydraulic cylinder legs, the base and the support plates; and the support plates are in contact with a seabed surface. The leveling method comprises the following steps of: selecting mutually vertical axes X and Y on the base, arranging double-axis tilt sensors along the axis X or Y, measuring inclination angles in two coordinate axis directions by using the double-axis tilt sensors, performing amplification, filtration and isolation by using a signal conditioning module, transmitting conditioned signals to data acquisition equipment and a computer, performing digital-to-analogue conversion and amplification after the signals pass through a signal analysis module, and outputting three paths of current to drive the motions of valve elements of three proportional reversing valves, control the flow of the system and drive the three hydraulic cylinder legs to ascend by y1, y2 and y3 to realize leveling. The system and the method are applied to kinds of offshore drilling equipment, and are highin leveling speed and accuracy.

The invention discloses a hydraulic driving system for an offshore drilling compensation winch.A hydraulic secondary regulation element and a driven hydraulic cylinder jointly drive the winch to fulfill a heave compensation function, and a bit feeding hydraulic motor drives the winch to fulfill an automatic bit feeding function.During compensation, the driven hydraulic cylinder and a liquid-gas energy storage device thereof are used or bearing all static loads of a drilling rig and periodically recovering and releasing gravitational potential energy of loads; the hydraulic secondary regulation element operates in a constant-pressure network to overcome other loads in the compensation process, and the liquid-gas energy storage device periodically recovers and releases inertia kinetic energy of the a winch rotary system.During bit feeding, the driven hydraulic cylinder and the liquid-gas energy storage device thereof recover the gravitational potential energy of the loads of the drilling rig and release in lifting of a drilling rig traveling system.The hydraulic driving system is integrally compact in structure, a hydraulic energy recovery system is high in operation efficiency and long in service life, and an engine is low in power and power consumption.

Apparatus and methods of monitoring mooring lines of an offshore drilling rig, with the apparatus including a communication system in communication with a global positioning system, providing position coordinates of the apparatus at a first point on the line, and also includes an inertial navigation system supported by the frame, providing position coordinates of the apparatus at a second point on the line, by double integration with respect to time of inertial accelerations measured by the device as it is moved from the first point to the second point. Correction at the second point is provided by obtaining at the second point, depth, position relative to magnetic north, and deviation from vertical.