Patents by Inventor J. Ward Turner

J. Ward Turner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Compliant deck tower
    Patent number: 9096987
    Abstract: Compliant offshore platforms with isolated decks using one or more bearings located on a generally horizontal plane that is in proximity to the vertical center of gravity of the deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Adel H. Younan, J. Ward Turner
  • Compliant Deck Tower
    Publication number: 20130089379
    Abstract: Compliant offshore platforms with isolated decks using one or more bearings located on a generally horizontal plane that is in proximity to the vertical center of gravity of the deck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Inventors: Adel H. Younan, J. Ward Turner
  • Method for fabricating a reduced-heave floating structure
    Publication number: 20080014024
    Abstract: A method for installing a heave plate (100) on a floating structure (10). The method allows for construction of the floating structure (10) and heave plate (100) on-shore, while providing for installation of the heave plate on the floating structure at sea.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2003
    Publication date: January 17, 2008
    Inventors: Roald T. Lokken, J. Ward Turner
  • Arctic offshore structure and installation method therefor
    Patent number: 4784526
    Abstract: An arctic offshore platform adapted for use in hydrocarbon exploration and production operations conducted in relatively shallow waters with low to moderate ice environments. The arctic offshore platform of the present invention includes one or more support legs. Each support leg includes a base resting on the ocean floor, a central support column extending upward through the base to a position above the ocean surface and a sloped-sided member seated atop the base and extending upward around the central support column to a position above the ocean surface. In installation, the base and central support column are installed and secured to the ocean floor as a unit. Following this, the sloped-sided member is secured atop the base. The sloped-sided member causes ice sheets which may impact the support leg to fail in flexure, thus reducing the overall ice loadings on the support leg relative to the loading which would exist were the sloped-sided member absent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: November 15, 1988
    Assignee: Exxon Production Research Company
    Inventor: J. Ward Turner
  • System for mating an integrated deck with an offshore substructure
    Patent number: 4761097
    Abstract: A system for mating an integrated deck structure with an offshore substructure is provided. The system comprises a spud can attached to a leg of the integrated deck structure and a bin attached to a leg of the substructure for receiving the spud can. The bin contains a bed comprising a medium having variable stiffness and damping characteristics which is utilized to minimize the dynamic forces that occur between the integrated deck structure and the substructure during the mating procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1988
    Assignee: Exxon Production Research Company
    Inventor: J. Ward Turner