Abstract:
The bracket comprises an upright tube and a cleat connected to one side of the tube. The cleat has a pair of horizontal, transversely extending horns protruding from the tube. In use, a pair of the brackets are pivotally mounted on the upper ends of the shafts of embedded screw piles bracketing a pipeline. A flexible tie-down strap, having loop ends, extends across the pipeline. The loop ends each releasably engage one of the brackets. Each loop end extends over the bracket tube and is trapped beneath the cleat, so as to bear against the side surface of the tube lower end. The loop end and bracket can readily be engaged or disengaged in the field.
Abstract:
A flowline for hydrocarbon which is capable of being reeled and which is unreeled for being laid on the seabed using the reeled lay method is comprised of successive pipe sections having opposing ends which are joined by an anchor collar that is butt welded to the opposing ends. The pipe sections have a jacket on the exterior of the pipe sections, but the pipe sections are able to be reeled. Anchor collars are affixed by butt welding between the ends of adjacent pipe sections. Each anchor collar has a fixture or protrusion radially outward which has an outer diameter less than or at least not more than the outer diameter of the pipe section jacket. The flowline has the same inner diameter at the pipe sections and the collar, and the pipe has the same outer diameter as the collar, while the protrusion protrudes outward from the exterior of the collar. The flowline is anchored on the seabed by unreeling it from a spool, applying a clamp to the collar before delivering it to the seabed, and anchoring the clamp to the seabed. The jacket may expose the fixture or protrusion or may initially cover it and be removed to enable the clamping.
Abstract:
A pipeline buoyancy control assembly includes a pair of anchor rods, a pair of tie-down attachment members, a pair of termination members, and a flexible endless strap having an endless loop configuration. The anchor rods are driven partially into the ground along opposite lateral sides of the pipeline. The tie-down attachment members are disposed on and mounted to upper end portions of the anchor rods with each tie-down attachment member having a tubular mounting body defining an axial passageway through which the upper end portion of one anchor rod extends and a retainer body disposed in an oblique relation and attached to the tubular mounting body. Each termination member is mounted to the upper end portion of one of the anchor rods. The endless strap has opposite portions secured to the tie-down attachment members and main portions laid over a top of and disposed in a substantially transverse relation to the pipeline and extending between and attached to the opposite portions. The retainer body of each tie-down attachment member defines an annular shoulder that overlies and encompasses one of the opposite portions of the endless strap so as to retain the endless strap in place over the top of the pipeline such that a buoyancy load of the pipeline is spread over the anchor rods and thereby reduces stress applied to the anchor rods.
Abstract:
A pipe initiation anchor forming a fixed anchor point for use in laying underwater pipelines comprises a ground engaging member in the form of a ballast box or a ground pile, a socket for receiving an end portion of a pipeline, and a locking member for retaining the end portion of the pipeline within the socket. The locking member is pivotally mounted on the anchor and is biased towards a locking position by a counterbalance weight.
Abstract:
An underwater pipe anchoring device is adapted to be connected to an anchor for anchoring the pipe to underwater strata. A first support section is shaped to engage a first portion of the outer surface of the pipe and a second support section is shaped to engage a second portion of the outer surface of the pipe. A hinge connects an end of the second support section to the first support section so that the second support section can swing into and out of a position where the support sections surround the pipe and engage opposite sides of the outer surface of the pipe. The end of the second support section opposite the hinge is releasably connected to the first support section so that the support sections can be connected for supporting the pipe. Metal-to-metal contact between the support sections and pipe is prevented for protecting the pipe.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an anchoring device and method for anchoring a pipeline to the ground, in particular to the bottom of a body of water, such as the seabed.
Abstract:
The arrangement is designed for anchoring underwater and underground pipelines laid in wet and flood lands with swelling ground and permafrost areas and also where pipelines with varying temperature and pressure have to be made fast in the ground. The arrangement comprises anchors secured in the ground. A fastening element attached to the pipeline is connected to the anchors through resilient connecting means capable of changing their length under load. When ground swelling occurs, the forces set up by transverse displacement of the pipeline are taken by the resilient connecting means. The resilient connecting means can also be used for placing preload on the pipeline in order to increase its adhesion to the ground.
Abstract:
A resting device (1) of at least one portion of a linear structure (2) is for crossing an uneven underwater topography. The resting device (1) is suitable for supporting at least one portion of the linear structure (2) that defines a longitudinal direction (X-X) coincident with or parallel to the longitudinal development direction of the linear structure (2). The resting device (1) includes at least one buoyant element (3) and at least one tether (4), suitable for constraining the resting device (1) to a bed (5). The at least one buoyant element (3) is suitable for providing a sufficient buoyancy to keep the at least one tether (4) under tension. A deck (6) has a shape and material that allows distributed resting of at least one portion of the linear structure (2) on the resting device (1).