Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Vessel and method to perform subsea wellbore related operations
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Application No.: US16624169Application Date: 2018-07-10
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Publication No.: US11203906B2Publication Date: 2021-12-21
- Inventor: Joop Roodenburg , Diederick Bernardus Wijning
- Applicant: ITREC B.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Schiedam
- Assignee: ITREC B.V.
- Current Assignee: ITREC B.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Schiedam
- Agency: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
- Priority: NL2019225 20170711
- International Application: PCT/NL2018/050454 WO 20180710
- International Announcement: WO2019/013619 WO 20190117
- Main IPC: E21B19/02
- IPC: E21B19/02 ; B63B3/14 ; E21B15/00 ; E21B15/02

Abstract:
A vessel and method to perform subsea wellbore related operations, e.g. slim hole technique drilling of a subsea wellbore are disclosed. The vessel has a hull with at least one moonpool defining first and second moonpool areas. A vertical tower is mounted on a tower supporting hull structure and has a vertical operative face. A hoisting device has a winch and winch driven cable, and is adapted to suspend a load from said vertical tower via said at least one winch driven cable and to manipulate the suspended load in a firing line of the tower that extends along and outside of said vertical operative face of the tower. The tower is slewable about a vertical slew axis by means of a slewing drive at least into first and second operative positions wherein the firing line extends through the first and second moonpool areas respectively.
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