US 11,781,384 B2
Drilling installation: handling system, method for independent operations
Josephus Leonardus Aloysius Maria Van Der Hoorn, Schiedam (NL); Naxin Zhang, Schiedam (NL); Mark Cornelius Marinus Franciscus Rommens, Schiedam (NL); and Govert Hendrik Teunis Zijderveld, Schiedam (NL)
Assigned to GUSTOMSC B.V., Schiedam (NL)
Filed by GustoMSC B.V., Schiedam (NL)
Filed on Jul. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/865,480.
Application 17/865,480 is a division of application No. 16/995,410, filed on Aug. 17, 2020, granted, now 11,414,938.
Application 16/995,410 is a continuation of application No. 15/571,710, granted, now 10,745,983, issued on Aug. 18, 2020, previously published as PCT/NL2016/050322, filed on May 4, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 2014765 (NL), filed on May 4, 2015; and application No. 2016059 (NL), filed on Jan. 5, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0040288 A1, Feb. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. E21B 19/087 (2006.01); E21B 19/22 (2006.01); E21B 15/02 (2006.01); E21B 15/00 (2006.01); E21B 19/00 (2006.01); E02B 17/00 (2006.01); E02B 17/02 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 19/22 (2013.01) [E21B 15/003 (2013.01); E21B 15/02 (2013.01); E21B 19/008 (2013.01); E02B 17/021 (2013.01); E02B 2017/006 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
18. A method for performing operations on a jacket or well platform that is positioned underneath a cantilever and outside of an area of a deck of a drilling installation, said cantilever being mounted on the drilling installation and comprising an independent operations handling system mounted to an outside of the cantilever,
the method comprising using a handling element of the independent operations handling system to handle equipment between the deck of the drilling installation and the jacket or well platform.