Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Stephen E. Koch
  • Offshore floating production method
    Patent number: 6494271
    Abstract: A method of conducting operations to an offshore field from multiple separated drill centers using a floating vessel having a turret-mounted mooring element and a workstation separate from the mooring element in which the vessel is moored at a central mooring element location and operations are sequentially carried out at separate drill centers associated with the mooring element location by allowing the vessel to weathervane to a heading associated with a subsequent drill center once operations have been completed at a first drill center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventor: W. Brett Wilson