OFFSHORE DRILLING VESSEL AND METHOD
    21.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200032594A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-01-30

    申请号:US16593318

    申请日:2019-10-04

    Applicant: ITREC B.V.

    Abstract: An offshore drilling vessel includes a floating hull subjected to heave motion. The hull includes a moonpool and a drilling tower near the moonpool. A drilling tubulars storage rack is provided for storage of drilling tubulars. The vessel includes a heave motion compensation support that is adapted to support a slip device whilst performing heave compensation motion relative to the heaving motion of the vessel. A racking device is provided with a heave motion synchronization system that is adapted to bring a tubular retrieved from the storage rack in heave motion into a vertical motion that is synchronous with the heave compensation motion of the string slip device. The racking device includes vertical rails and at least two separate motion arm assemblies mounted on said vertical rails. Each separate motion arm assembly includes its own vertical drive which is electrically connected to the heave motion synchronization system.

    MARINE CRANE VESSEL AND METHOD OF OPERATION
    22.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190263638A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-29

    申请号:US16346350

    申请日:2017-11-10

    Applicant: ITREC B.V.

    Abstract: A marine vessel and a method of operation of such a marine vessel include a crane with a boom including a main boom section and a jib section and a variable length stay mechanism. The lattice boom is movable from a hoisting position into a parking position by a routine including operating the variable length stay mechanism allowing the jib section to fold towards the main boom section. The crane is provided with a fixation device adapted to establish fixation of the jib section relative to the main boom section in a folded position. A boom rest is mounted on the hull. The routine further includes operating the luffing assembly to position the jib member of the folded jib section, fixated to the main boom section, in the parking position onto the boom rest.

    SUBSEA WELLBORE OPERATIONS VESSEL AND METHOD
    23.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190136646A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-05-09

    申请号:US16240158

    申请日:2019-01-04

    Applicant: ITREC B.V.

    Abstract: A vessel adapted to perform subsea wellbore related operations involving a riser string that is assembled from releasably interconnected riser sections and extends between a subsea wellbore and the vessel. The riser string vertical handling system of the vessel comprises a controlled motion device that is adapted to displace the riser string lifting tool in at least one horizontal direction relative to the riser spider device at least whilst travelling between said elevated and lowered position thereof loaded by the riser string suspended from the riser string lifting tool, thereby allowing to establish an inclined travel path with selectively variable inclination of the riser string lifting tool relative to an imaginary vertical line through the riser string passage of the riser spider device, e.g. said inclined travel path having an inclination selected to correspond to an actual water current induced inclination of an upper portion of the riser string during the riser string assembly process.

    SUBSEA WELLBORE OPERATIONS VESSEL
    24.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190002061A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-03

    申请号:US16124813

    申请日:2018-09-07

    Applicant: ITREC B.V.

    Abstract: A vessel adapted to perform subsea wellbore related operations involving a riser string between the subsea wellbore and the vessel. The vessel includes a hull having a deck, and a riser storage hold present within said hull below said deck. The riser storage hold comprising storage racks adapted to store therein parallel stacks of multiple riser sections and/or pre-assembled riser stands in a horizontal orientation. The vessel has an elongated riser transfer opening between said deck and said roof, and the riser transfer opening extending in a direction parallel to said storage racks. The vessel has horizontal rails extending along said opposite longitudinal sides of said riser transfer opening and a catwalk machine having a mobile catwalk machine frame that is movable over said horizontal rails. The catwalk machine is at least in a loading position that is above said riser transfer opening and in a riser upending position.

    COMBINATION OF A DRILLING INSTALLATION AND A CONTROL AND SIGNAL LINES DEPLOYMENT MODULE AND METHOD OF USE

    公开(公告)号:US20180363385A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-20

    申请号:US16062850

    申请日:2016-12-16

    Applicant: ITREC B.V.

    CPC classification number: E21B17/026 E21B19/10 E21B19/24

    Abstract: In combination a drilling installation for drilling a well and a control and signal lines deployment module, wherein the drilling installation includes a rig floor slip device which is adapted to be cleared from a well centre opening to create a clear space around the well centre opening. The combination further includes a temporary workspace floor, which is adapted to be mounted in the clear space at a level below a rig floor surface and to provide a workspace floor for an operator standing in the clear space on said work space floor, allowing the operator to secure at a securing level the one or more control/and or signal lines externally to a second tubulars string suspended from a module slip device.

    AN OFFSHORE DRILLING VESSEL AND METHOD
    26.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180328122A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-15

    申请号:US16041601

    申请日:2018-07-20

    Applicant: ITREC B.V.

    Abstract: An offshore drilling vessel includes a floating hull subjected to heave motion. The hull includes a moonpool and a drilling tower near the moonpool. A drilling tubulars storage rack is provided for storage of drilling tubulars. The vessel includes a heave motion compensation support that is adapted to support a slip device whilst performing heave compensation motion relative to the heaving motion of the vessel. A racking device is provided with a heave motion synchronization system that is adapted to bring a tubular retrieved from the storage rack in heave motion into a vertical motion that is synchronous with the heave compensation motion of the string slip device. The racking device includes vertical rails and at least two separate motion arm assemblies mounted on said vertical rails. Each separate motion arm assembly includes its own vertical drive which is electrically connected to the heave motion synchronization system.

    A TOP DRIVE WELL DRILLING INSTALLATION
    27.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180298693A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-18

    申请号:US15765436

    申请日:2016-10-07

    Applicant: ITREC B.V.

    Abstract: The present invention relates to a top drive well drilling installation comprising a trolley guided along one or more vertical rails along the drilling tower, which trolley is provided with a support frame supporting the top drive unit and a rotating head-clamp. The rotating headclamp comprises an open-centered rotary body defining a pipe passage; a thrust bearing supporting the rotary body; and multiple mobile pipe retainers supported by the rotary body providing an operative and a non-operative position allowing passage of a pipe and engagement below a shoulder of a pipe of the drill string so as to suspend said drill string therefrom. At least the tubular stem is vertically movable relative to the rotating headclamp between an upper remote position allowing the engagement of a pipe of the drill string by the rotating headclamp and a lower connection position allowing the attachment of the tubular stem with the pipe.

    A DRILLING RIG WITH A TOP DRIVE SYSTEM OPERABLE IN A DRILLING MODE AND A TRIPPING MODE

    公开(公告)号:US20180216405A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-02

    申请号:US15737068

    申请日:2016-06-09

    Applicant: ITREC B.V.

    CPC classification number: E21B3/02 E21B7/02 E21B19/00 E21B19/06

    Abstract: A drilling rig is adapted to perform drilling and/or other wellbore related activities. The drilling rig includes a drilling tower, a drill floor with a well center, a slip device arranged at the well center, a tubulars connection makeup and breaking device near the well center, and a top drive system. The top drive system includes a traveling carriage that is vertically mobile along one or more vertical rails of the drilling tower by a vertical motion drive. The system also includes a top drive unit supported by said carriage and including a top drive motor and a rotary torque output member. The system further includes a tripping operation elevator that is adapted to be engageable with a drilling tubulars string or drilling tubulars stand, e.g. with the top end thereof, in order to perform tripping operations. The top drive unit and the tripping operation elevator are each mobile relative to the traveling carriage, and wherein the top drive system is provided with one or more actuators adapted to cause said relative motion of the top drive unit and of the tripping operation elevator so as to provide a drilling mode and a tripping mode.

    SUBSEA WELLBORE OPERATIONS VESSEL
    29.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180127065A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-10

    申请号:US15865821

    申请日:2018-01-09

    Applicant: ITREC B.V.

    Abstract: A method for assembly of a riser string onboard a vessel that is adapted to perform subsea wellbore related operations involving said riser string, said riser string being configured to extend between a subsea wellbore and the vessel in a wellbore related operation, wherein the vessel including a hull, a riser storage adapted to store therein, in horizontal orientation, multiple pre-assembled riser stands and/or multiple individual riser stand, a deck structure having an elongated transfer opening above said riser storage, a transfer elevator, wherein multiple pre-assembled riser stands, each being pre-assembled from multiple riser sections connected end-to-end and each having a length of at least 150 ft. (45.72 m), and/or multiple individual riser sections each having a length of at least 150 ft. (45.72 m), are stored, in said horizontal orientation, in the riser storage, wherein the method comprises a riser transfer step wherein the transfer elevator is operated so as to raise a single one of said pre-assembled riser stands and/or individual riser sections in the horizontal position thereof from the riser storage, through the transfer opening, to a position above the deck structure.

    DOUBLE JIB SLEWING PEDESTAL CRANE
    30.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180044148A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-02-15

    申请号:US15699783

    申请日:2017-09-08

    Applicant: ITREC B.V.

    CPC classification number: B66C23/52 B66C23/64 B66C23/66 B66C23/82

    Abstract: The present invention relates to a double jib slewing pedestal crane comprising a main jib and a secondary jib, and a secondary jib positioning device to support and position the secondary jib with respect to the main jib and actuate the pivotal movement of the secondary jib. The secondary jib positioning device comprises a secondary jib positioning cable; a spoke structure fixed to the secondary jib and extending radially outward; a tension chain connected at one end to the secondary jib positioning cable and at the other end to the secondary jib and/or to the spoke structure, wherein the spoke structure is adapted to support the tension chain.

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