JAMES CAMERON O'SULLIVAN
Pilots at Groveland Ln, Houston, TX

2012020, Aug 16, 2012

Oct 18, 2010

13/503634

Peter Graham Harris - Aberdeen, GB
James O'Sullivan - Houston TX, US

TECHNIP FRANCE - Courbevoie

F03D 3/00, B23P 6/00, F03D 11/04

416 1, 416 85, 2940201

The disclosure provides a wind energy system with one or more floating modules having at least two vertical wind turbines mounted thereon. A multipoint mooring system couples the floating module to a seabed, the mooring system having at least two mooring points with at least two lines positioned at location s around the floating module with the wind turbines. A rotation system is coupled to the floating module and adapted to twist the floating module relative to wind direction while the multipoint mooring system is coupled between the seabed and the floating module. The rotation system can include induced gyroscopic torque from counter-rotating wind turbines and a self-adjusting induced gyroscopic torque differential from varying wind directions. Other rotation systems can include winches and translating assemblies that can be activated to tighten or loosen mooring lines in the multipoint mooring system coupled to the floating module in a catenary manner.

2012016, Jul 5, 2012

Aug 25, 2010

13/392488

Kostas Filoktitis Lambrakos - Houston TX, US
Bonjun Koo - Katy TX, US
James O'Sullivan - Houston TX, US

TECHNIP FRANCE - Courbevoie

B63B 39/06, B63B 35/00

114126

The present invention increases the heave resistance rate of a barge system from wave motion, as the system is used to install a topsides to offshore structures. One or more heave plates can be coupled at a location below the water surface to one or more barges to change the period of motion of the barge(s) relative to the period of wave motion to better stabilize the barge(s) and resist the heave. A heave plate can be coupled between the barges, or on end(s) or side(s) of the barge(s). In at least another embodiment, each barge can have a heave plate and the heave plates can be releasably coupled to each other. Further, the heave plate can be rotated to an upward orientation during transportation of the topsides to the installation site to reduce drag, and then rotated to a submerged position during the installation of the topsides.

7217066, May 15, 2007

Feb 8, 2005

11/053378

James O'Sullivan - Houston TX, US

Technip France - Courbevoie

E02B 17/00, E02D 5/74

405224

A system for stabilizing gravity-based offshore structure anchored in a seabed includes a plurality of upper locking element sets installed in a keel on the bottom of the structure; a plurality of caissons embedded in the seabed; a plurality of inserts, each of which is removably installed in one of the caissons; and a lower locking element set in each of the inserts. Each of the lower locking element sets is lockably engageable with one of the upper locking element sets when the keel is set down on top of the caissons. The inserts are permanently attachable to the keel by a grouting material that may be pumped into the inserts through the keel. The arrangement stabilizes the structure against lateral shear forces, while allowing the structure to be easily removed from the caissons, with the inserts attached to the keel, by the application of a vertical lifting force. The structure may then be moved and installed on a second plurality of caissons embedded at second seabed site.

8430602, Apr 30, 2013

Jan 6, 2010

12/683077

Qi Xu - Katy TX, US
Michael Y. H. Luo - Bellaire TX, US
Steven Barras - Katy TX, US
James O'Sullivan - Houston TX, US

TECHNIP France - Courbevoie

B63B 35/44

4052231, 405203, 405224

The disclosure provides a tension leg platform (“TLP”) with a plurality of buoyant pontoons suitable for highly disturbed seas that can expand the stability of the tension leg platform by extending at least one buoyant pontoon beyond an intersection of two pontoons. In at least one embodiment, the location of the column can be decoupled from the customary end of the pontoon. The tendons can be located at the ends of the pontoons extending beyond the intersection. In some embodiments, such as four-column TLPs, the pontoons can be extended orthogonally relative to an adjacent pontoon. The extending pontoon increases a buoyancy of the pontoon, increases a pitch stability of the TLP, and increases quayside stability. The extended pontoon can be structurally intersected with the adjacent pontoon to strengthen the extended pontoon and reduce the failure mode of such structure.

7556452, Jul 7, 2009

Aug 16, 2007

11/840025

James O'Sullivan - Houston TX, US

Technip France - Courbevoie

E21B 17/01

4052242, 4051681, 166367

A bend-limiting conduit controls the curvature of a catenary riser extending from the seafloor as it enters the centerwell of a spar-type offshore platform through the keel of the platform. The conduit has a bore dimensioned to receive the riser, and it extends from an upper end constrained within the keel to a lower end disposed below the keel. The conduit has increasing flexibility and weight per unit length from the upper end to the lower end, which results in a lateral load being applied to the riser as it passes through the conduit, thereby causing a gentle and gradual transition in the riser from a curved configuration at the lower end of the conduit, to a straight configuration as it emerges from the upper end of the conduit.

4730677, Mar 15, 1988

Dec 22, 1986

6/944874

Joseph L. Pearce - Dallas TX
Phillip S. Sizer - Dallas TX
John C. Gano - Carrollton TX
John H. Yonker - Carrollton TX
Robert L. Thurman - Carrollton TX
James F. O'Sullivan - Houston TX
Dayton M. Simpson - Missouri City TX
Richard A. Roberts - Houston TX
Anthony J. Healey - Carmel CA
Urie G. Nooteboom - Houston TX

Otis Engineering Corporation - Dallas TX

E21B 4301

166345

A system and method for servicing subsea wells with a flexible riser. The flexible riser can be modified for use either with wireline or through the flow line tools. The flexible riser eliminates the requirement for motion or heave compensating equipment associated with rigid marine riser systems. The flexible riser, lower riser package and associated surface support equipment can be used to obtain vertical access to a subsea well without the need to use a drill ship or semisubmersible.

7845998, Dec 7, 2010

Dec 22, 2008

12/341706

Manoj Ramachandran - Houston TX, US
James O'Sullivan - Houston TX, US
Anil Sablok - Houston TX, US
Jang W. Kim - Spring TX, US

Technip France - Courbevoie

B63B 22/02

441 3, 1142302

A spar-type offshore platform includes a buoyant upper hull structure having a lower end to which is detachably connected a buoyant lower module. A plurality of mooring line assemblies is connected to the lower module, the total weight of the mooring line assemblies being sufficient to sink the lower module. A method of separating the upper hull structure from the lower module includes disconnecting the lower module from the lower end of the upper hull structure, and then allowing the weight of the mooring line assemblies to sink the lower module.

2002004, Apr 18, 2002

Feb 28, 2001

09/796295

Rajnikant Amin - Houston TX, US
James O'Sullivan - Houston TX, US
David Gray - Houston TX, US

E02D005/62, E02D015/02

405/224200

The present invention relates to a subsea system for the production of hydrocarbon reserves. More specifically, the present invention relates to a subsea system in economically and technically challenging environments. Still more specifically, the present invention relates to a control wellhead buoy that is used in deepwater operations for offshore hydrocarbon production.

2003007, Apr 24, 2003

Nov 26, 2002

10/304250

Raj Amin - Houston TX, US
Andrea Mangiavacchi - Houston TX, US
Nicolaas Vandenworm - Houston TX, US
James O'Sullivan - Houston TX, US
Clyde Nolan - Sugar Land TX, US

Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc. - Houston TX

E21B007/12

166/350000, 166/367000

A system for producing hydrocarbons from a subsea well comprises an unmanned floating platform positioned over the well, the platform including equipment for inserting coiled tubing or wireline tools or the like into the well for servicing, controlling, or conducting other operations in or to the well, a vertical access riser connecting the platform to the well, a control umbilical connecting the platform to the well, a host facility adapted to receive the produced hydrocarbons, and a production pipeline connecting the well to the host facility, the production pipeline including at least one access port between the well and the host facility.