Method for assembling pipe-in-pipe pipeline elements for transporting fluids

    公开(公告)号:US11306848B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-19

    申请号:US16965819

    申请日:2019-01-24

    Applicant: SAIPEM S.A.

    Abstract: A method for assembling pipe-in-pipe pipeline elements for transporting fluids, with each pipeline element comprising an inner pipe including a bulge at one end, and an outer pipe including a recess at one end. The method comprises the successive steps: inserting a first locking wedge axially abutting the bulge of its inner pipe and a corresponding end of its outer pipe, butt-assembling the inner pipe of a new pipeline element on the inner pipe of the pipeline, positioning the outer pipe of the new pipeline element alongside the outer pipe of the pipeline, and butt-assembling the outer pipe of the new pipeline element on the outer pipe of the pipeline by inserting a second locking wedge axially abutting against the bulge of the inner pipe of the pipeline at its free end and the recess of the outer pipe at a corresponding end thereof.

    Method for the offshore installation of a preheated double-walled underwater pipe for transporting fluids

    公开(公告)号:US10989331B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-27

    申请号:US16337541

    申请日:2017-09-28

    Applicant: SAIPEM S.A.

    Abstract: A method of installing at sea a double-walled preheated undersea pipe for transporting fluids, wherein for each new pipe section to be assembled to a pipe that is already installed at sea: the method involves preheating the inner wall unit element inside the outer wall unit element of the new pipe section; assembling the inner wall unit elements of the new pipe section to the inner wall of the pipe that is already installed at sea; assembling the outer wall unit element of the new pipe section to the outer wall of the pipe that is already installed at sea; lowering the new pipe section into the sea; and repeating the above for other new pipe sections to be assembled so as to prestress the pipe while it is being installed at sea.

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