Patents by Inventor John Christian Hartley Mungall
John Christian Hartley Mungall 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).
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Patent number: 8696247Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling movement of an elongated member providing communication between a vessel and a subsea unit are provided. The method can include connecting a positively buoyant member to an elongated member at a first location and connecting a negatively buoyant member to the elongated member at a second location, wherein at least a portion of the negatively buoyant member rests on a seabed when the elongated member is in an operational null position.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2010Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLCInventor: John Christian Hartley Mungall
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Patent number: 7963721Abstract: Apparatuses including a subsea pipeline (18) extending from a first location (14) to a second location (16) and including at least one distributed buoyancy region (102) to traverse a seabed topographic feature (12) are presented. Methods including laying a subsea pipeline (218) including laying a negatively buoyant section of pipeline (218A), a distributed buoyancy section (202) of pipeline (218), and a second negatively buoyant section of pipeline (218B) from a pipelay vessel (220) to traverse an undersea topographic feature (212) are also presented.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2004Date of Patent: June 21, 2011Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLCInventors: Khamir Girish Joshi, John Christian Hartley Mungall, Craig Wonder Lamison
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Patent number: 7819608Abstract: Apparatuses including a subsea pipeline (18) extending from a first location (14) to a second location (16) and including at least one distributed buoyancy region (102) to traverse a seabed topographic feature (12) are presented. Methods including laying a subsea pipeline (218) including laying a negatively buoyant section of pipeline (218A), a distributed buoyancy section (202) of pipeline (218), and a second negatively buoyant section of pipeline (218B) from a pipelay vessel (220) to traverse an undersea topographic feature (212) are also presented.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: October 26, 2010Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLCInventors: Khamir Girish Joshi, John Christian Hartley Mungall, Craig Wonder Lamison
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Patent number: 7748464Abstract: The current subject matter relates to compliant variable tension risers to connect deep-water subsea wellheads to a single floating platform in wet tree or dry try systems. The variable tension risers allow several subsea wellheads, in water depths from 1220 to 3050 meters, at lateral offsets from one-tenth to twice the depth or more, to tie back to a single floating platform. Also, the current subject matter relates to methods to counter buoyancy and install variable tension risers using a weighted chain ballast line.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2008Date of Patent: July 6, 2010Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLCInventors: Shankar U. Bhat, John Christian Hartley Mungall, David Brian Andersen, Kevin Gerard Haverty, Sean K. Barr, Davinder Manku
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Publication number: 20100147529Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling movement of an elongated member providing communication between a vessel and a subsea unit are provided. The method can include connecting a positively buoyant member to an elongated member at a first location and connecting a negatively buoyant member to the elongated member at a second location, wherein at least a portion of the negatively buoyant member rests on a seabed when the elongated member is in an operational null position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2010Publication date: June 17, 2010Applicant: KELLOGG BROWN & ROOT LLCInventor: John Christian Hartley Mungall
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Patent number: 7628206Abstract: Disclosed are compliant variable tension risers (106) to connect deep-water subsea wellheads (102) to a single floating platform (104). The variable tension risers (106) allow several subsea wellheads (102), in water depths from 4,000 to 10,000 feet, at lateral offsets from one-tenth to one-half of the depth, to tie back to a single floating dry tree semi-submersible platform (104).Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2006Date of Patent: December 8, 2009Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLCInventors: Shankar Uluvana Bhat, John Christian Hartley Mungall, Kevin Gerard Haverty, David Brian Andersen, William Lewis Greiner
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Patent number: 7520331Abstract: Disclosed are methods to counter buoyancy and install variable tension risers using a weighted chain ballast line. An example of an apparatus used in conjunction with the embodiments includes compliant variable tension risers to connect deep-water subsea wellheads to a single floating platform. The variable tension risers allow several subsea wellheads, in water depths from 4,000 to 10,000 feet, at lateral offsets from one-tenth to one-half of the depth, to tie back to a single floating dry tree semi-submersible platform.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2007Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLCInventors: Shankar Uluvana Bhat, John Christian Hartley Mungall, Kevin Gerard Haverty, David Brian Andersen, William Lewis Greiner
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Publication number: 20080210433Abstract: The current subject matter relates to compliant variable tension risers to connect deep-water subsea wellheads to a single floating platform in wet tree or dry try systems. The variable tension risers allow several subsea wellheads, in water depths from 1220 to 3050 meters, at lateral offsets from one-tenth to twice the depth or more, to tie back to a single floating platform. Also, the current subject matter relates to methods to counter buoyancy and install variable tension risers using a weighted chain ballast line.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2008Publication date: September 4, 2008Applicant: KELLOGG BROWN & ROOT, INC.Inventors: Shankar Uluvana Bhat, John Christian Hartley Mungall, David Brian Andersen, Kevin Gerard Haverty, Sean K. Barr, Davinder Manku
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Patent number: 7416025Abstract: Disclosed are compliant variable tension risers (106) to connect deep-water subsea wellheads (102) to a single floating platform (104) in wet tree or dry try systems. The variable tension risers (106) allow several subsea wellheads (102), in water depths from 1220 to 3050 meters, at lateral offsets from one-tenth to twice the depth or more, to tie back to a single floating platform (104). Also disclosed are methods to counter buoyancy and install variable tension risers using a weighted chain ballast line (228, 230).Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2005Date of Patent: August 26, 2008Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLCInventors: Shankar Uluvana Bhat, John Christian Hartley Mungall, David Brian Andersen, Kevin Gerard Haverty, Sean K. Barr, Davinder Manku
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Patent number: 7191836Abstract: Disclosed are compliant variable tension risers (106) to connect deep-water subsea wellheads (102) to a single floating platform (104). The variable tension risers (106) allow several subsea well-heads (102), in water depths from 4,000 to 10,000 feet, at lateral offsets from one-tenth to one-half of the depth, to tie back to a single floating dry tree semi-submersible platform (104). Also disclosed are methods to counter buoyancy and install variable tension risers using a weighted chain ballast line (228, 230).Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2004Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root LLCInventors: Shankar Uluvana Bhat, John Christian Hartley Mungall, Kevin Gerard Haverty, David Brian Andersen, William Lewis Greiner
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Patent number: 7150324Abstract: An offshore riserless drilling system drills a subsea borehole from a platform and through a cased borehole. The system comprises a lightweight drill string suspending a bottomhole assembly and extending from the platform downwardly through a depth of water into the cased borehole; a first limiter limiting the range of motion of the drill string adjacent the platform; and a second limiter limiting the range of motion of the drill string adjacent the cased borehole. The preferred methods include lowering a bottomhole assembly suspended on a lightweight drill string from a platform through a depth of water; limiting the bend radius of the drill string adjacent the platform; guiding the bottomhole assembly into a cased borehole; limiting the bend radius of the drill string adjacent the cased borehole; maintaining the bottomhole assembly in the cased borehole, and drilling the subsea borehole.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2002Date of Patent: December 19, 2006Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Emmett Laursen, John Christian Hartley Mungall
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Patent number: 7025533Abstract: Various apparatuses and methods to traverse an undersea topographic feature (12) with a subsea pipeline (18) are disclosed. The apparatuses and methods of the present invention accomplish this task through the use of a concentrated buoyancy scheme (10). The invention disclosed can allow more efficient and cost effective traversal of hostile terrain for subsea pipelines at great depths while minimizing the risk of rupturing the pipeline (18) or negatively impacting the surrounding undersea environment.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2004Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc.Inventors: John Christian Hartley Mungall, Khamir Girish Joshi, Craig Wonder Lamison
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Publication number: 20040065475Abstract: An apparatus and method for offshore riserless drilling are disclosed. The preferred embodiments comprise a system for riserless drilling of a subsea borehole from a platform and through a cased borehole, the system comprising a lightweight drill string suspending a bottomhole assembly and extending from the platform downwardly through a depth of water into the cased borehole; a first limiter limiting the range of motion of the drill string adjacent the platform; and a second limiter limiting the range of motion of the drill string adjacent the cased borehole. The preferred methods include lowering a bottomhole assembly suspended on a lightweight drill string from a platform through a depth of water; limiting the bend radius of the drill string adjacent the platform; guiding the bottomhole assembly into a cased borehole; limiting the bend radius of the drill string adjacent the cased borehole; maintaining the bottomhole assembly in the cased borehole, and drilling the subsea borehole.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2002Publication date: April 8, 2004Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Patrick Emmett Laursen, John Christian Hartley Mungall
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Patent number: 5639187Abstract: A marine riser system which effectively combines rigid (e.g. steel catenary risers) with flexible flowlines. Basically, the steel catenary risers, which are merely the end portion of submerged rigid flowlines, are curved upward through the water in a gentle catenary path to a large, submerged buoy, which, in turn, is moored to the bottom by tension leg tether lines at a depth below the turbulence zone of the water. Flexible flowlines are fluidly connected to the steel catenary risers at the buoy and extend upward through the turbulence zone to the surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1994Date of Patent: June 17, 1997Assignee: Mobil Oil CorporationInventors: John Christian Hartley Mungall, David Loyd Garrett, Charles H. Alexander