Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Pipe body cathodic protection
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Application No.: US17252905Application Date: 2019-06-14
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Publication No.: US11592125B2Publication Date: 2023-02-28
- Inventor: Peter Francis Richard Collins
- Applicant: Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK Limited
- Applicant Address: GB Bristol
- Assignee: Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK Limited
- Current Assignee: Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Bristol
- Agency: Knobbe Martens Olson and Bear, LLP
- Priority: GB1810228 20180621
- International Application: PCT/GB2019/051662 WO 20190614
- International Announcement: WO2019/243782 WO 20191226
- Main IPC: F16L11/12
- IPC: F16L11/12 ; C23F13/10 ; F16L11/08 ; F16L58/00

Abstract:
A flexible pipe for subsea transportation of production fluids, a method of manufacturing flexible pipe body and a method of providing corrosion protection to armour wires of at least one tensile armour layer of a flexible pipe having a breached pipe annulus are disclosed. The flexible pipe comprises a fluid retaining layer, an outer sheath and at least one tensile armour layer comprising a plurality of helically wound monofilament armour wires of a first material, each having a non-circular cross section with an aspect ratio of greater than 1:2 disposed between the fluid retaining layer and the outer sheath. The tensile armour layer further comprises at least one helically wound elongate anode element substantially having a cross-section aspect ratio of 1:1 and comprising a further material, interposed between armour wires, the anode element cross section having an area that is 50% or less of a corresponding area of said non-circular cross section.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210262592A1 PIPE BODY CATHODIC PROTECTION Public/Granted day:2021-08-26
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