Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Subsea pumping apparatuses and related methods
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Application No.: US14461342Application Date: 2014-08-15
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Publication No.: US11339788B2Publication Date: 2022-05-24
- Inventor: Guy Robert Babbitt , John Mathew Dalton , Luis R. Pereira , James Edward Kersey
- Applicant: Transocean Innovation Labs, Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KY George Town
- Assignee: Transocean Innovation Labs, Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Transocean Innovation Labs, Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KY George Town
- Agency: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP
- Main IPC: F04D13/08
- IPC: F04D13/08 ; F04D13/12 ; F04B47/06 ; F04B17/03 ; F04B23/04 ; F04B39/08 ; F04B49/22 ; F04B23/02 ; F04D1/00 ; F04D3/00 ; E21B41/00 ; F03B11/00 ; C02F1/44 ; C02F103/08

Abstract:
This disclosure includes subsea pumping apparatuses and related methods. Some apparatuses include one or more subsea pumps, each having an inlet and an outlet, and one or more motors, each configured to actuate at least one pump to communicate a hydraulic fluid from the inlet to the outlet, where the subsea pumping apparatus is configured to be in fluid communication with a hydraulically actuated device of a blowout preventer. Some subsea pumping apparatuses include one or more of: a desalination system configured to produce at least a portion of the hydraulic fluid; one or more valves, each configured to selectively route hydraulic fluid from an outlet of a pump to, for example, a subsea environment, a reservoir, and/or the inlet of the pump; and a reservoir configured to store at least a portion of the hydraulic fluid. Some apparatuses are configured to be directly coupled to the hydraulically actuated device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150104328A1 SUBSEA PUMPING APPARATUSES AND RELATED METHODS Public/Granted day:2015-04-16
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