Patents Assigned to Frontier Deepwater Appraisal Solutions LLC
  • Patent number: 10865608
    Abstract: A mobile offshore drilling unit is converted to provide drilling, completion and workover access to multiple dry tree wells from a drilling derrick to allow production and export of oil and gas from high pressure, high temperature reservoirs in deep offshore waters. Existing practice has been for the drilling derrick on a production platform supporting dry tree wells to be moved over a fixed well slot. The present invention provides a movable wellbay that supports multiple top-tensioned subsea well tieback risers, which may be positioned directly below the derrick's rotary table and/or beneath another operating device. The use of top-tensioned subsea well tieback risers supported by the movable wellbay allows the converted facility to drill, complete, maintain, improve and produce from subsea wells through dry trees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: FRONTIER DEEPWATER APPRAISAL SOLUTIONS LLC
    Inventors: Roy B. Shilling, III, Charles N. White, Howard Day
  • Publication number: 20200040671
    Abstract: A mobile offshore drilling unit is converted to provide drilling, completion and workover access to multiple dry tree wells from a drilling derrick to allow production and export of oil and gas from high pressure, high temperature reservoirs in deep offshore waters. Existing practice has been for the drilling derrick on a production platform supporting dry tree wells to be moved over a fixed well slot. The present invention provides a movable wellbay that supports multiple top-tensioned subsea well tieback risers, which may be positioned directly below the derrick's rotary table and/or beneath another operating device. The use of top-tensioned subsea well tieback risers supported by the movable wellbay allows the converted facility to drill, complete, maintain, improve and produce from subsea wells through dry trees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: FRONTIER DEEPWATER APPRAISAL SOLUTIONS LLC
    Inventors: ROY B. SHILLING, III, CHARLES N. WHITE, HOWARD DAY
  • Patent number: 10428599
    Abstract: A mobile offshore drilling unit is converted to provide drilling, completion and workover access to multiple dry tree wells from a drilling derrick to allow production and export of oil and gas from high pressure, high temperature reservoirs in deep offshore waters. Existing practice has been for the drilling derrick on a production platform supporting dry tree wells to be moved over a fixed well slot. The present invention provides a movable wellbay that supports multiple top-tensioned subsea well tieback risers, which may be positioned directly below the derrick's rotary table and/or beneath another operating device. The use of top-tensioned subsea well tieback risers supported by the movable wellbay allows the converted facility to drill, complete, maintain, improve and produce from subsea wells through dry trees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: FRONTIER DEEPWATER APPRAISAL SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Roy B. Shilling, III, Charles N. White, Howard Day
  • Publication number: 20190257160
    Abstract: A mobile offshore drilling unit is converted to provide drilling, completion and workover access to multiple dry tree wells from a drilling derrick to allow production and export of oil and gas from high pressure, high temperature reservoirs in deep offshore waters. Existing practice has been for the drilling derrick on a production platform supporting dry tree wells to be moved over a fixed well slot. The present invention provides a movable wellbay that supports multiple top-tensioned subsea well tieback risers, which may be positioned directly below the derrick's rotary table and/or beneath another operating device. The use of top-tensioned subsea well tieback risers supported by the movable wellbay allows the converted facility to drill, complete, maintain, improve and produce from subsea wells through dry trees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: FRONTIER DEEPWATER APPRAISAL SOLUTIONS LLC
    Inventors: ROY B. SHILLING, III, CHARLES N. WHITE, HOWARD DAY
  • Patent number: 9976364
    Abstract: A mobile offshore drilling unit is converted to provide drilling, completion and workover access to multiple dry tree wells from a drilling derrick to allow production and export of oil and gas from high pressure, high temperature reservoirs in deep offshore waters. Existing practice has been for the drilling derrick on a production platform supporting dry tree wells to be moved over a fixed well slot. The present invention provides a movable wellbay that supports multiple top-tensioned subsea well tieback risers, which may be positioned directly below the derrick's rotary table and/or beneath another operating device. The use of top-tensioned subsea well tieback risers supported by the movable wellbay allows the converted facility to drill, complete, maintain, improve and produce from subsea wells through dry trees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: FRONTIER DEEPWATER APPRAISAL SOLUTIONS LLC
    Inventors: Roy B. Shilling, III, Charles N. White, Howard W.F. Day
  • Publication number: 20180066481
    Abstract: A mobile offshore drilling unit is converted to provide drilling, completion and workover access to multiple dry tree wells from a drilling derrick to allow production and export of oil and gas from high pressure, high temperature reservoirs in deep offshore waters. Existing practice has been for the drilling derrick on a production platform supporting dry tree wells to be moved over a fixed well slot. The present invention provides a movable wellbay that supports multiple top-tensioned subsea well tieback risers, which may be positioned directly below the derrick's rotary table and/or beneath another operating device. The use of top-tensioned subsea well tieback risers supported by the movable wellbay allows the converted facility to drill, complete, maintain, improve and produce from subsea wells through dry trees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: Frontier Deepwater Appraisal Solutions LLC
    Inventors: Roy B. Shilling, III, Charles N. White, Howard W.F. Day