Oil States Rubber Company

Oil States Industries Limited

Don B Landers

Frederick G Britton

Robert K Brock

William G Stanfield

An offshore marine combination reach rod and grouting system wherein a reach rod extended from the upper end of an offshore platform leg or piling and piling sleeve to a flood valve connected to the lower end of a leg annulus passes through one or more tee connections as part of a grout feeding system to the leg annulus. The reach rod in the form of a hollow pipe is connected through flexible lines to flush water and grout feeding sources that permit twisting of the reach rod pipe to open and close the flood valve.

Reach rod grouting system

A diaphragm seal assembly for large tubes such as used as supporting legs in offshore platforms and pile drivers in underwater environments, with the diaphragm seal closure constructed to resist loads retained in such manner as to be nearly completely removed by upward tension pull on a pull-out cable. The diaphragm seal assembly is retained between rings welded inside a tubular member by a split ring forced apart to a retaining diameter by a removable key. Pull on a cable removes the key allowing the split ring to return to its initial smaller diameter size small enough to be removed up out of the tube along with the diaphragm closure member.

Pull-out diaphragm seal for hollow tubes

Offshore platform leg jacket and piling sets having inflatable grout seals with inflation lines extended to the outside of respective jackets and upward to the top of the jackets each equipped with a premature inflation prevention structure low in the inflation line preventing fluid hydrostatic pressure from causing premature grout seal inflation. The structure inserted low in each inflation line is in the form of a rupture disc or, alternately, a pressure controlled relief valve so selected and/or set that the hydrostatic fluid pressure required to burst the rupture disc or to open activate the relief valve is always higher than the maximum hydrostatic pressures the respective grout seals are exposed to.

Grout seal premature inflation protective system

A method for gravity grouting the annulus between a piling and a piling sleeve wherein air pressure is used to expel water and foreign matter from the annulus. Air pressure is then reduced in the annulus that is sealed at the top and has a seal at the bottom capable of holding a differential pressure between water pressure at depth and atmospheric air pressure within the annulus. Grouting material is then fed to the annulus between the piling and the sleeve and permitted to set.

Offshore structure gravity grouting method

An annular built up seal section on a diaphragm used for closing the end of a large tube with the annular built up seal section sized for sealing engagement with the tube end.

Seal assembly for hollow tubular structure

A seal assembly for tubular structures such as piling guides and the like, with a plurality of stacked diaphragm members forming enclosed chambers therebetween at the tube ends. The chambers are filled with plastic or elastomer for differential pressure sharing between the diaphragms to avoid overloading and rupture thereof.

Multiple diaphragm seal assembly

A shock load absorbing load cell with relatively longitudinally movable structural members interconnected by a plurality of shear load elastomeric segments, each having spaced plates bonded to opposite surfaces of an intervening flexible molded block of elastomeric material. Molded shape memory of the elastomeric material blocks resiliently urges the spaced plates back to their original position after they have been displaced in absorbing a shock load.

Shock energy absorbing multi-segment load cell

An offshore deep water marine platform system having pressure feed lines extended from the platform deck to inflatable piling sleeve packers run inside grout supply lines.

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Arlington, TX, United States of America

Don B Landers