Ge Oil & Gas UK Limited

Fernando Bezerra Paulo

Valdeir Tinoco Da Silva

Italo De Lemos Souza

A flexible pipe and method of producing a flexible pipe are disclosed. The method includes bending armour wires of a flexible pipe body about 10 to 50 degrees from a longitudinal axis of the pipe body using a temporary collar member; inserting a further collar member radially inwards of the bent armour wires such that a portion of the armour wires lay over the further collar member; and mating the flexible pipe body and further collar member with an end fitting body.

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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Fernando Bezerra Paulo