Abstract: An offshore unit includes a hull and/or a deck frame, a mat attached to at least one connecting leg or a spud can attached to each of at least one connecting leg or lower hull attached to at least one connecting means. A wellhead deck is removably attached to the hull and/or deck frame and a sub-sea clamp in conjunction with a caisson or a sub-sea conductor frame is removably attached to the mat or to the at least one connecting leg, where a spud can is attached to each of the at least one connecting leg, or to the lower hull. The offshore unit is relocatable and is a platform or a rig capable of performing drilling, production, construction, accommodation, hook-up and commissioning or a combination of any of these functions thereof. The offshore unit is a self-elevating mobile platform or submersible platform or semi-submersible platform.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 1, 2013
Date of Patent:
April 8, 2014
Assignee:
Kingtime International Limited
Inventors:
Nagendran C. Nadarajah, Renata Anita De Raj, Mahendran Sippiah
Abstract: An offshore unit includes a hull and/or a deck frame, a mat attached to at least one connecting leg or a spud can attached to each of at least one connecting leg or lower hull attached to at least one connecting means. A wellhead deck is removably attached to the hull and/or deck frame and a sub-sea clamp in conjunction with a caisson or a sub-sea conductor frame is removably attached to the mat or to the at least one connecting leg, where a spud can is attached to each of the at least one connecting leg, or to the lower hull. The offshore unit is relocatable and is a platform or a rig capable of performing drilling, production, construction, accommodation, hook-up and commissioning or a combination of any of these functions thereof. The offshore unit is a self-elevating mobile platform or submersible platform or semi-submersible platform.
Abstract: An offshore unit includes a hull and/or a deck frame, a mat attached to at least one connecting leg or a spud can attached to each of at least one connecting leg or lower hull attached to at least one connecting means. A wellhead deck is removably attached to the hull and/or deck frame and a sub-sea clamp in conjunction with a caisson or a sub-sea conductor frame is removably attached to the mat or to the at least one connecting leg, where a spud can is attached to each of the at least one connecting leg, or to the lower hull. The offshore unit is relocatable and is a platform or a rig capable of performing drilling, production, construction, accommodation, hook-up and commissioning or a combination of any of these functions thereof. The offshore unit is a self-elevating mobile platform or submersible platform or semi-submersible platform.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 10, 2010
Date of Patent:
March 26, 2013
Assignee:
Kingtime International Limited
Inventors:
Nagendran C. Nadarajah, Renata Anita De Raj, Mahendran Suppiah
Abstract: An enclosed offshore tank for storing crude oil in a flowable form where the problems associated with flow assurance are prevented. The enclosed offshore tank includes a floor, an insulated cover and perimeter wall secured to a floor forming the offshore tank. The enclosed offshore tank can include a means of floor heating, wherein the floor is provided with piping which receives heated fluid to heat the crude oil. The perimeter wall can have an inner wall and an outer wall forming an annulus, wherein a heated fluid from a heating source fills the annulus to heat the crude oil. A microwave heating system can include at least one microwave generator, at least one waveguide and at least one radiating element to indirectly heat crude oil in the offshore tank.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 16, 2009
Publication date:
October 4, 2012
Applicant:
KINGTIME INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
Inventors:
Nagendran C. Nadarajah, Renata Anita De Raj, Mahendran Suppiah, Ionel Valeriu Grozescu