Tension leg platform system

Patent · Mon Dec 19 23:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:6886429

Burns, R B

A tension leg platform system for use in drilling wellbores into the floor of an offshore body of water. Includes in the system is a buoyancy control vessel having a plurality of pull down cables attached thereto which extend to the ocean floor. A plurality of spaced apart anchors disposed at the ocean floor are positioned to receive the lower ends of the respective pull down cables. A submergible hull slidably engages the respective hold down cables such that the hull can be controllably lowered to the ocean floor whereby a canopy carried on the hull will cover an uncontrollably flowing well to conduct the effluent to the water's surface.

• Assignee: Texaco Development Corp., White Plains, N.Y.
• Patent Number(s): US 4421436
• OSTI ID: 6886429
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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