US Patent Issued to ONESUBSEA AS on May 12 for "Wellhead system and method of operating a wellhead system" (Norwegian, Spanish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,609, issued on May 12, was assigned to ONESUBSEA AS (Lysaker, Norway).

"Wellhead system and method of operating a wellhead system" was invented by Stuart Spitz (Granada, Spain), Adne Oestebroet (Bergen, Norway) and Sigve Angell Arnoey (Strusshamn, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wellhead system includes a wellhead assembly and a landing assembly. The wellhead assembly is secured to a top of a borehole and has an interior surface enclosing a main passage. The landing assembly incudes a tubing hanger and an orientation control assembly. The landing assembly is lowered into the main passage to land the tubing hanger in the wellhe...