Robert Keith Thibodeaux

US Patent:

45098832, Apr 9, 1985

Filed:

May 11, 1983

Appl. No.:

6/493552

Inventors:

Emile Thibodeaux - Eunice LA
Robert Thibodeaux - Eunice LA

International Classification:

E02D 700

US Classification:

405232

Abstract:

A process involving the utilization of a clamp apparatus positioned around a pile to be driven into the seabed through the jacket leg and supported on the top end portion of the jacket leg itself. The apparatus involved in this process would comprise a pair of hemispherical sections hinged together at a common edge moveable between opened and closed positions opposite the hinged edge. There is further provided hydraulic means for effecting movement of the sections engaging or disengaging the piling. On the inner wall of each hemisphere there is further provided a plurality of protrusions, constructed of soft metal or the like, so that the outermost face of each protrusion engages the wall of the piling when the apparatus is in the closed position and engaged around the pile. The downward movement of the pile in the jacket leg is controlled by the loosening or tightening of the clamp apparatus by use of the hydraulic means attached thereto.

US Patent:

20190249538, Aug 15, 2019

Filed:

Feb 12, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/274072

Inventors:

- Houston TX, US
Marcus Savini - Church Point LA, US
Jeremy R. Angelle - Youngsville LA, US
Logan Smith - Lafayette LA, US
Robert L. Thibodeaux - Lafayette LA, US
Brennan Domec - Sunset LA, US

International Classification:

E21B 44/00
G01S 5/14

Abstract:

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for mitigating collision occurrences on a drilling rig, of which an example of the method includes associating ultra wide band (UWB) tags with pieces of rig equipment and rig personnel. The tags are configured to communicate with one or more anchors. The method also includes determining interlock rules associated with each of the pieces of rig equipment, monitoring positions of the pieces of rig equipment and the rig personnel using the tags, in real-time, determining that one or more of the interlock rules are violated by a position of one or more of the pieces of rig equipment, rig personnel, or both, and, in response to determining that the one or more of the interlock rules are violated, at least partially disabling operation of one or more of the pieces of rig equipment.

US Patent:

20160153251, Jun 2, 2016

Filed:

Dec 1, 2014

Appl. No.:

14/556475

Inventors:

- Houston TX, US
Neil Alleman - Scott LA, US
Robert L. Thibodeaux - Lafayette LA, US
Jeremy R. Angelle - Youngsville LA, US

International Classification:

E21B 19/16
E21B 17/046

Abstract:

Methods and apparatus for running a tubular into a wellbore. The method includes attaching a first member of a lifting coupling to a first tubular, and attaching a second member of the lifting coupling to a second tubular. The second tubular extends downward through an opening of a rotary station. The method also includes connecting together the first and second members of the lifting coupling, such that a weight of the second tubular is transmitted via the lifting coupling to the first tubular. The method further includes lowering the lifting coupling, the second tubular, and at least a portion of the first tubular through the opening, and disconnecting the second member from the first member. The method additionally includes moving the second member of the lifting coupling and the second tubular laterally, away from the opening.