Abstract: A riser system for use in transporting fluid cargo to a floating vessel from a submerged pipe employs a tensioning mechanism that prevents excess slack in a flexible riser that could potentially damage the riser. The tensioning mechanism includes a tensioning arm or element that is pivotally attached at a first end to a submerged base and at its second end to the flexible riser. The arm is free to rotate about the pivot point in a pendulum manner, but is urged toward an equilibrium position by one or more tension-applying elements disposed on the arm, such as a buoyancy element, a weight or both.

Abstract: A riser system for use in transporting fluid cargo to a floating vessel from a submerged pipe employs a tensioning mechanism that prevents excess slack in a flexible riser that could potentially damage the riser. The tensioning mechanism includes a tensioning arm or element that is pivotally attached at a first end to a submerged base and at its second end to the flexible riser. The arm is free to rotate about the pivot point in a pendulum manner, but is urged toward an equilibrium position by one or more tension-applying elements disposed on the arm, such as a buoyancy element, a weight or both.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an arrangement in connection with the drilling of oil wells, especially with coil tubing, and more specifically an arrangement comprising heave compensation by such drilling, comprising a first frame-like structure (3) which in relation to a floating vessel (1A) is mounted for allowing movement at least in the vertical direction in relation to said vessel, as well as devices for providing compensating power between said first frame stucture (3) and said vessel (1A), and in order to provide an improved heave compensation system it is according to the present invention suggested that said arrangement further comprising a second frame-like structure (1) arranged stationary on the deck (1AA) of the vessel (1A), said first compensated frame-like structure (3) and said second frame-like structure (1) being assembled by means of a further system (4) allowing compensation of said relative movement between the vessel (1A) and said compensated structure (3), i.e.

Abstract: A telescopic boom includes three or more sections which may be pivoted if desired. The innermost section is incapable of moving in the longitudinal direction, whereas the other sections are adapted to be concurrently dislocated in the longitudinal direction relative to each other. Only a drive mechanism on the innermost section is adapted to be actuated from an outside source, whereas the other sections are driven by the relative motion of the sections movable in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: In a method and an apparatus for putting down or taking up a load from or upon a loading location by way of a crane, wherein the crane or the loading location is subjected to substantially irregular vertical movements which change the distance between the hoisting hook of the crane and the loading location, there is accomplished a preferably continuous measuring of values which give information about the distance and relative velocity between a point on the crane and the loading location. The measuring signals are treated and possibly converted so as to create regulating signals which influence the velocity of the hoisting hook and/or the position of the crane to impart to the hoisting hook an acceleration or retardation as a compensation for the said irregular movements, so that the relative movement between the load and the loading place will follow the course desired by the operator, without undesired powerful collisions between the load and the loading location.

Abstract: A parking device for containing a blowout preventer aboard a floating drilling station. The parking device includes a parking frame which is capable of holding the blowout preventer with its center of gravity lying above the points at which the blowout preventer is supported on the parking frame. The blowout preventer can be moved as a unit back and forth between a parked position and an installed position for utilization on the drilling station. For enabling such movement a first drive mechanism is provided for raising and lowering the parking frame and additionally a second drive mechanism is provided for moving the parking frame sideways.