SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONCURRENTLY TRENCHING, LAYING AND BURYING UNDERWATER PIPELINE

    公开(公告)号:US20170356161A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-12-14

    申请号:US15299873

    申请日:2016-10-21

    Inventor: Thomas S. Rooney

    CPC classification number: E02F5/107 F16L1/123 F16L1/16 F16L1/202 F16L55/11

    Abstract: A system and method for laying an underwater pipeline is provided. The present invention includes a plurality of pipe support rings connected together by tension cables. The tension cables are secured to a S or J laying ship by a winch. The plurality of pipe support rings form a pipe channel sized to guide the underwater pipeline. The present invention further includes a sea water pipe having a distal portion and a proximal end. The proximal end is fluidly connected with a pump on board the ship. The distal end includes a plurality of nozzles. The sea water pipe is disposed underneath the plurality of pipe support rings. The underwater pipeline is fed through the plurality of pipe support rings while the nozzles form a trench on a sea bed.

    Flexible hydrocarbon pipeline storage installation

    公开(公告)号:US09617809B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-04-11

    申请号:US14437460

    申请日:2013-11-07

    Applicant: ITREC B.V.

    CPC classification number: E21B19/22 B63B25/00 F16L1/202 F16L1/203 Y10T29/49817

    Abstract: The present invention relates to a vessel comprising a flexible hydrocarbon pipeline storage installation. The flexible hydrocarbon pipeline storage installation comprises an annular storage device, the storage device comprising an opening, and a tensioner, adapted to exert a pulling force on a pipeline, comprising two or moretensioner tracks defining therebetween a pipeline passage, extending between a loading end and an opposed storage end of the tensioner. The flexible hydrocarbon pipeline storage installation further comprises a pipeline loading guide, provided near the tensioner, for guiding the pipeline during loading the pipeline into the annular storage device. According to the invention, the tensioner is arranged to have an essentially vertical pipeline passage, wherein the storage end of the tensioner is situated above the opening of the annular storage device, and wherein the pipeline loading guide is provided near the loading end of the tensioner.

    MARINE PIPELINE INSTALLATION SYSTEM AND METHODS
    6.
    发明申请
    MARINE PIPELINE INSTALLATION SYSTEM AND METHODS 审中-公开
    海洋管道安装系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20160265691A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-09-15

    申请号:US15158435

    申请日:2016-05-18

    Applicant: ITREC B.V.

    Abstract: A method for installing an accessory onto a pipeline to be laid on the seabed, includes launching the pipeline from a first position of a tower in which the tower is at an angle α with respect to the vertical; stopping the launch of the pipeline, and hanging off the launched pipeline in a hang off module; positioning an accessory in a tower firing line; attaching the accessory to the launched pipeline in the hang off module and to at least one A&R cable; suspending the accessory and the launched pipeline from an A&R system; disengaging the hang off module from the launched pipeline; pivoting the pipeline launch tower to an accessory launch position in which the tower is at an angle γ that differs substantially from angle a, such that a pipeline launch trajectory is created which is large enough to launch the accessory and the launched pipeline with the A&R system.

    Abstract translation: 一种将附件安装在待铺设在海床上的管道上的方法,包括从塔架的第一位置发射管道,其中塔架相对于垂直线成角度α; 停止管线的启动,并将挂起的管道悬挂在吊挂模块中; 将配件定位在塔式起火线中; 将附件连接到吊挂模块中的启动管道和至少一个A&R电缆; 从A&R系统暂停配件和发射管道; 将脱落模块与启动的管道分离; 将管道发射塔枢转到附件发射位置,其中塔处于与角度α基本上不同的角度γ,使得产生足够大的管道发射轨迹以启动附件和使用A&R系统的发射管道 。

    Improvements Relating to Abandonment and Recovery of Pipelines
    7.
    发明申请
    Improvements Relating to Abandonment and Recovery of Pipelines 有权
    关于管道弃置和回收的改进

    公开(公告)号:US20150377385A1

    公开(公告)日:2015-12-31

    申请号:US14766128

    申请日:2014-02-06

    Abstract: A method of abandoning a pipeline during subsea pipelaying from a pipelay vessel includes suspending the pipe string from a tendon element of an abandonment string and engaging further tendon elements to an upper end of the abandonment string while lowering the pipe string to a handover depth. At the handover depth, tension is applied via a wire to the top of the pipe string at an acute angle to the launch axis. This deflects the pipe string from the launch axis into axial alignment with the wire to transfer the weight load of the pipe string to the wire, whereupon the abandonment string can be decoupled from the pipe string. Recovery of the pipeline from the seabed can be effected by a reverse process.

    Abstract translation: 在从海底管线船舶进行海底管道铺设期间放弃管道的方法包括:将管柱从放弃绳的腱元件悬挂下来,并将另外的腱元件接合到放弃柱的上端,同时将管柱降低到切换深度。 在切换深度处,通过导线将张力以与发射轴成锐角的角度施加到管柱的顶部。 这使得管柱从发射轴线偏转成与线轴对准以将管柱的重量载荷传递到线,于是放弃线可以与管柱分离。 从海底回收管道可以通过相反的过程来实现。

    Assembly for transporting liquid via pipes and associated floating structure
    8.
    发明授权
    Assembly for transporting liquid via pipes and associated floating structure 有权
    通过管道和相关的浮动结构输送液体的组件

    公开(公告)号:US09212763B2

    公开(公告)日:2015-12-15

    申请号:US14363924

    申请日:2012-12-06

    Applicant: Via Marina

    Inventor: Claude Lebelle

    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly that includes a pipe for transporting liquid, deformable between an internal circular cross-section and a flattened internal cross-section that can be null and that can be folded on itself longitudinally, and a device for installing the pipe. The device includes a rotating turret about which the pipe is wound and flattened, presentation means for presenting one opposite the other in a commonly conformed state, two pipe sections, assembly means for a water-tight link between said sections, optional tensioning means for transmitting an axial tension to the elongated pipe, and means for attaching ballast to the elongated pipe.

    Abstract translation: 本发明涉及一种组件,其包括用于输送液体的管道,该管道可在内部圆形横截面和可以为空的扁平内部横截面之间变形,并且可纵向折叠,以及用于安装管道的装置。 该装置包括旋转转盘,管道绕其并变平,呈现装置用于以相同的状态呈现出彼此相对的一个,两个管段,用于所述部分之间的水密连接的组装装置,可选的张紧装置,用于传送 对细长管的轴向张力,以及用于将镇流器附接到细长管的装置。

    Method and apparatus for at sea pipe abandonment and recovery
    10.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for at sea pipe abandonment and recovery 有权
    海管放弃和回收的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US08641323B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-02-04

    申请号:US13062928

    申请日:2009-09-01

    CPC classification number: F16L1/18 F16L1/166 F16L1/202 F16L1/207

    Abstract: A method of positioning on the sea floor, from a floating vessel, an unlaid end portion of a pipe that is being laid from its other end on the sea floor is disclosed. The method includes lowering the unlaid end portion of the pipe to a lowered position above the sea floor. Transfer of the load of the unlaid end portion of the pipe occurs from the lowering device to a line for suspending the unlaid end portion of the pipe. Lowering the line for suspending and the unlaid end portion of the pipe occurs. There is disclosed a corresponding method of recovery as well as associated apparatus. A method for effecting a subsea connection between one line and an object suspended below the surface of the sea by another line and associated apparatus are disclosed.

    Abstract translation: 公开了一种在海底定位的方法,从浮式船舶,从另一端在海底上铺设的管道的未完成端部进行定位。 该方法包括将管的未熔结端部降低到海底上方的降低位置。 管道的未铺设端部的载荷的传送从下降装置发生到用于悬挂管的未开口端部的管线。 下降管道悬挂和管道的未铺设端部发生。 公开了相应的恢复方法以及相关联的装置。 公开了一种用于通过另一线路和相关联的装置来实现在一个线路和悬挂在海面之下的物体之间的海底连接的方法。

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