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SUBSEA OIL WELLHEAD [2 records]

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Record 1 2003-05-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
CONT

For smaller fields, rather than being drilled from a large central platform, the wells are drilled from subsea clusters. For these types of wells, the wellhead and Christmas tree is installed directly on the seabed, with production from several wells co-mingled at a subsea manifold. Subsea manifolds are often linked by pipelines and umbilical control lines back to a nearby platform, where engineers can control and monitor the oil and gas production.

Key term(s)
  • sub-sea manifold

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
CONT

Le promoteur se propose d'installer les puits et les collecteurs sous-marins dans des entonnoirs souterrains aménagés au fond de l'océan, à une profondeur suffisante pour que l'équipement ne subisse pas l'action d'affouillement des icebergs en mouvement.

OBS

collecteur : Arrangement de tuyauterie comprenant des vannes et permettant de diviser un écoulement, d'en combiner plusieurs ou d'orienter un écoulement particulier.

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Oil Production
CONT

These early efforts utilized subsea wellhead and blowout-preventer stacks mounted on the ocean floor very much like those used today, but it was not until the late 1950’s that the marine-riser concept was born.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Production pétrolière
DEF

Dispositif d'entrée d'un puits installé au fond, pour le forage ou la production, et relié à la surface par un tube prolongateur.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Perforación de pozos petrolíferos
  • Producción petrolera
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