US Patent Issued to OneSubsea AS on June 16 for "Wellbore installation apparatus and method of lower an apparatus to seabed" (Norwegian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,706, issued on June 16, was assigned to OneSubsea AS (Oslo, Norway).

"Wellbore installation apparatus and method of lower an apparatus to seabed" was invented by Martin Pedersen (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus (33) for installing a wellbore beneath a body of water comprising a support structure (10, 72), a tubular (22) mounted on the support structure (10, 72), the tubular (22) having a first end (22a), a second end (22b) and an interior passage (24) which extends from the first end (22a) to the second end (22b), a tubular extension (34a-34f) releasably mounted on the support structure (72), the tubular exte...