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GB2483526B - Apparatus and method for capping an underwater oil well - Google Patents

Apparatus and method for capping an underwater oil well

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GB2483526B
GB2483526B GB1102297.7A GB201102297A GB2483526B GB 2483526 B GB2483526 B GB 2483526B GB 201102297 A GB201102297 A GB 201102297A GB 2483526 B GB2483526 B GB 2483526B
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capping
oil well
underwater oil
underwater
well
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Cyrus Omid Varan
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Priority claimed from US12/843,936 external-priority patent/US8413729B2/en
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B43/00—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells
    • E21B43/01—Methods or apparatus for obtaining oil, gas, water, soluble or meltable materials or a slurry of minerals from wells specially adapted for obtaining from underwater installations
    • E21B43/0122—Collecting oil or the like from a submerged leakage
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E21—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; MINING
    • E21B—EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING; OBTAINING OIL, GAS, WATER, SOLUBLE OR MELTABLE MATERIALS OR A SLURRY OF MINERALS FROM WELLS
    • E21B33/00—Sealing or packing boreholes or wells
    • E21B33/02—Surface sealing or packing
    • E21B33/03—Well heads; Setting-up thereof
    • E21B33/035—Well heads; Setting-up thereof specially adapted for underwater installations

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  • Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
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  • Mining & Mineral Resources (AREA)
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  • Environmental & Geological Engineering (AREA)
  • Fluid Mechanics (AREA)
  • General Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • Geochemistry & Mineralogy (AREA)
  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Oil, Petroleum & Natural Gas (AREA)
  • Earth Drilling (AREA)
GB1102297.7A 2010-07-06 2011-02-09 Apparatus and method for capping an underwater oil well Expired - Fee Related GB2483526B (en)

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Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US34435210P 2010-07-06 2010-07-06
US12/843,936 US8413729B2 (en) 2010-07-06 2010-07-27 Apparatus and method for capping an underwater oil well

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GB201102297D0 GB201102297D0 (en) 2011-03-23
GB2483526A GB2483526A (en) 2012-03-14
GB2483526B true GB2483526B (en) 2012-08-15

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Citations (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE2933032A1 (en) * 1979-08-16 1981-02-26 Edgar Rathsburg Collecting and damming arrangement for sea-bed oil leak - includes preliminary collecting cone and truncated cone positioned later
US4741395A (en) * 1986-12-08 1988-05-03 Reed Robert W Vent-well system
FR2676088A1 (en) * 1991-04-30 1992-11-06 Gilles Pierre Method and device for controlling an oil well during blow-out

Patent Citations (3)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
DE2933032A1 (en) * 1979-08-16 1981-02-26 Edgar Rathsburg Collecting and damming arrangement for sea-bed oil leak - includes preliminary collecting cone and truncated cone positioned later
US4741395A (en) * 1986-12-08 1988-05-03 Reed Robert W Vent-well system
FR2676088A1 (en) * 1991-04-30 1992-11-06 Gilles Pierre Method and device for controlling an oil well during blow-out

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GB201102297D0 (en) 2011-03-23

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