Patents by Inventor Nils Arne Soelvik

Nils Arne Soelvik 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).

  • Patent number: 7240736
    Abstract: Subsea wells are drilled and completed with an offshore floating platform in a manner that allows simultaneous work on more than one well. A first well is drilled and casing. Then a tubing hanger is run through a drilling riser and landed in the wellhead housing. Then, with the same floating platform, the drilling riser is disconnected and moved to a second well. While performing operations on the second well, the operator lowers a production tree from the floating platform on a lift line, and connects it to the first wellhead housing. An ROV assisted subsea plug removal tool is used for plug removal and setting operations required through the production tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2007
    Assignee: Vetco Gray Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen P. Fenton, Gawain Langford, Francisco Dezen, Lars-Petter Sollie, Jarle Michaelsen, Nils Arne Soelvik
  • Patent number: 7011152
    Abstract: A power supply assembly, which is placed subsea and is connected to an umbilical from a platform, supplies electrical power to subsea equipment. The power supply assembly supplies power during drilling operations to a pump for pumping drilling fluid from the sea floor to the sea surface. During production operations, the power supply assembly provides power to a booster pump to pump the well fluid away from the subsea well for collection. The subsea power supply assembly optionally also provides power to electrically charged portions of subsea separators that remove water from the oil in the well fluid. The booster pump the pumps the oil from the separator away from the subsea wellhead for collection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Vetco Aibel AS
    Inventor: Nils-Arne Soelvik
  • Patent number: 6985061
    Abstract: An arrangement and a method for use in installation procedures for subsea transformers. A central, hole or tube is included in an encapsulation enclosing a transformer that is to be installed. Three core elements of the transformer are arranged symmetrically around the hole or tube forming a triangle or a delta. The transformer is lowered towards a a foundation placed on the sea floor wherein a guide pin is mounted. When the transformer has found its way to the foundation, the guide pin will enter the tube, and the transformer will slide down onto the guide line pin. The tube is terminated by a funnel shaped opening, thus making it easier not to miss the guide pin by the tube opening. The transformer is horizontally oriented by means of orientation keys localized within the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: Vetco Aibel AS
    Inventors: Gunnar Hafskjold, Nils Arne Soelvik
  • Patent number: 6968902
    Abstract: Subsea wells are drilled and completed with an offshore floating platform in a manner that allows simultaneous work on more than one well. A first well is drilled and cased. Then a tubing hanger is run through a drilling riser and landed in the wellhead housing. Then, with the same floating platform, the drilling riser is disconnected and moved to a second well. While performing operations on the second well, the operator lowers a production tree from the floating platform on a lift line, and connects it to the first wellhead housing. An ROV assisted subsea plug removal tool is used for plug removal and setting operations. Seabed separation is configured upstream of a production choke valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: Vetco Gray Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen P. Fenton, Gawain Langford, Francisco Dezen, Lars-Petter Sollie, Jarle Michaelsen, Nils Arne Soelvik
  • Patent number: 6867364
    Abstract: A subsea electrical power distribution system including a first chamber (20) housing a transformer, a second chamber (30) housing a power distribution system with busbars (32) for distribution of power to individual consumers connected to said busbars via connectors (33). The interface between the first and second chamber includes a flexible membrane (22) allowing the oil in the first chamber to expand into the second chamber and vice versa. The second chamber being connected to an external volume expansion chamber (34) allowing the pressure in the second chamber to balance against the pressure of the ambient sea.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: ABB Offshore Systems AS
    Inventors: Gunnar Hafskjold, Nils-Arne Sølvik
  • Publication number: 20040140124
    Abstract: Subsea wells are drilled and completed with an offshore floating platform in a manner that allows simultaneous work on more than one well. A first well is drilled and casing. Then a tubing hanger is run through a drilling riser and landed in the wellhead housing. Then, with the same floating platform, the drilling riser is disconnected and moved to a second well. While performing operations on the second well, the operator lowers a production tree from the floating platform on a lift line, and connects it to the first wellhead housing. An ROV assisted subsea plug removal tool is used for plug removal and setting operations required through the production tree. Seabed separation is configured upstream of a production choke valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventors: Stephen P. Fenton, Gawain Langford, Francisco Dezen, Lars-Petter Sollie, Jarle Michaelsen, Nils Arne Soelvik
  • Publication number: 20040090297
    Abstract: The present invention relates to offshore installations, and in particular to an arrangement and a method for use in installation procedures for subsea transformers. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, a central, hole or tube is included in the encapsulation enclosing the transformer which is to be installed. Three core elements of the transformer are arranged symmetrically around the hole or tube forming a triangle or a delta. In the installation process, the transformer is lowered towards a foundation placed on the sea floor wherein a guide pin is mounted. When the transformer has found its way to the foundation, the guide pin will enter the tube, and the transformer will slide down onto the guide line. The tube is terminated by a funnel shaped opening, thus making it easier not to miss the guide pin by the tube opening. The transformer is horizontally oriented by means of orientation keys localized within the tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Inventors: Gunnar Hafskjold, Nils Arne Soelvik
  • Publication number: 20030153468
    Abstract: A power supply assembly, which is placed subsea and is connected to an umbilical from a platform, supplies electrical power to subsea equipment. The power supply assembly supplies power during drilling operations to a pump for pumping drilling fluid from the sea floor to the sea surface. During production operations, the power supply assembly provides power to a booster pump to pump the well fluid away from the subsea well for collection. The subsea power supply assembly optionally also provides power to electrically charged portions of subsea separators that remove water from the oil in the well fluid. The booster pump the pumps the oil from the separator away from the subsea wellhead for collection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Publication date: August 14, 2003
    Inventor: Nils-Arne Soelvik