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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Technology

SBM Offshore has a long history of innovation in offshore oil and gas production,
storage and transfer systems, which started almost 60 years ago. Today SBM has
an unique Intellectual Property portfolio including patents, trademarks and related
offshore Know How which is used to anticipate the Industry’s needs, to bring
innovative new products to the market and to create customized solutions for our
clients based on our proprietary technologies.
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CALM Buoy Drilling Jack-up DP Drillship SBS Mooring System SALS Leased FPSO Jacket External Turret Disconnectable Turret
Mooring System Soft Yoke

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A Technology Provider

Based on continued R&D efforts, developed Know

How and multi-year operating experience for our
clients, SBM Offshore has built up a leading
patent portfolio of over 700 patents and patent
applications.
These patented technologies primarily cover the well- SBM PORTFOLIO OF PATENTED TECHNOLOGIES

known components like swivels, swivel-stacks, chain-

LNG-GAS
hawsers and connectors. However also cover offshore TLP-SEMISUB

hydrocarbon transfer systems, multiple types of TURRET 8 5 4 3 2 22 27 TURRET

MOORING 19 MOORING
mooring systems, internal and external turret systems, 13
RENEWABLE 16
RENEWABLE
FLUID SWIVEL-SEAL 14
disconnectable turret systems, TLP’s, Semi-Subs, 14 FLUID TRANSFER-MIDWATER 14
25
FLUID SWIVEL-SEAL
INSTALLATION-PIPELAYING 13 FLUID TRANSFER-MIDWATER
offshore installation methods, offshore processing, 14
POWER 8 INSTALLATION-PIPELAYING
field development methods and offshore renewable PROCESS
COMPONENT-OTHER
5
4 22 POWER
PROCESS
technologies. 16
DRILLING VESSEL
JACKUP-SPAR
3
19 2 COMPONENT-OTHER
DRILLING VESSEL
JACKUP-SPAR

A Global Technology Team

SBM Offshore develops new technologies in our offices in Monaco, Houston, Schiedam and Kuala Lumpur.
Continued improvements of the SBM Offshore technologies make our products more reliable, safer, more efficient
and more competitive.
By tracking long term trends in the Industry and identifying associated technology gaps, our teams use their
expertise to find solutions today for the challenges of tomorrow.

Protected innovations include the proven and in-situ

exchangeable bogie wheel systems for turrets
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Internal Turret Turnkey Deepwater Delivery of the first Delivery of the largest New Build Deepest Semi- Offshore Offloading Line : GAP™ mid water
North Sea FPSO CALM Buoy Generic FPSO SeastarTM TLP LPG FPSO Submerisible in the GoM Trelline™ Installed Fluid Transfer System

Gas

SBM Offshore’s novel Twin HullTM

development is based on two
converted LNG carriers to create a
competitive solution for a midscale
FLNG vessel.
The Twin HullTM concept is protected
by a series of SBM patents.

Hull

The Fast4WardTM generic hull

design is compatible with
internal turret and external
turret mooring systems as
well as a spread mooring
system; it ensures
a more flexible
hull design and
shorten the
critical path
of building a
complete FPSO

Renewable Energies
The S3 Wave Energy Converter
features a direct energy conversion
from waves to electricity using
Electro Active Polymers and avoid
the use of complex mechanical
parts.
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Largest Internal Turret First turret-moored FPSO COOL™ LNG HV-AC Electric Swivel VHP Fluid Swivel 1st Generation 3 FPSO Twin HullTM FLNG ARCATM Mooring System GoM Disconnectable
using steel risers Transfer System rated at 65KV rated at over 800 bar (Paraty) Turret FPSO
with 75 risers
and 150 MW

Patents
Technology Creating Value
Industrial designs
SBM Offshore has a policy to respect third party IP rights and expects others
to respect the rights that SBM owns. Trademarks

Our IP is used to protect SBM developments in a competitive environment Domain names

and to create a return on the R&D investments. This is centrally managed by
the Group IP Department who give support to the SBM Product Lines and to Copyrights
each Regional Centre. SBM has also adopted a licensing-out program of
Trade secrets
IP rights to share innovations with the offshore Industry.
Know how

A True Innovator SBM Technology Awards over last 5 years

A good measure of success for  ARCA Chain Connector System, 2015
 VHP Swivel, 2014
the technology development work  Drilling RiserTM TRIP-SAVER, 2013
performed is the level of Industry  COOLTM LNG Marine Transfer Hose System, 2011
 HV-AC Electric Swivel, 2011
recognition achieved.
SBM Offshore is proud to be a regular
COOL TM LNG ARCA Chain
winner, awarded 5 Spotlight on New Marine Transfer Hose Connector
Technology awards at the showcase
event, the Offshore Technology Drilling Riser TM
Conference (OTC), in the last 5 years. TRIP-SAVER

Of course all these proprietary

technologies are protected by patents
and trademarks before being tested,
qualified to TRL 4, and offered to our HV-AC Electrical
Swivel VHP Swivel
clients.

The sole intention of this factsheet is to share general information.

Contact Details
Technology@sbmoffshore.com
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www.sbmoffshore.com - September 2016