Ge Oil & Gas UK Limited

Baker Hughes Energy Technology UK Limited

Leigh Shippen

Ashley Clack

Matthew Carney

Paul Snowdon

Michael Kelly

David Lambert

Balaji Aresh

Stephen Mills

A method and apparatus are disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing an elongate sheet having a uniform thickness and a first and further spaced apart long edge, to a first pair of a plurality of spaced apart pairs of opposed forming roller elements, and via the pairs of roller elements, progressively forming a cross-sectional profile in the sheet that comprises a body portion comprising a folded central region of the sheet and a first and further wing portion that each extend away from the body portion and terminate at a respective long edge of the sheet, and securing adjacent regions of the wing portions and/or opposed regions of the body portion together thereby providing a windable elongate tape element having laterally immobilised wing portions.

Immobilised insert

Apparatus for providing a predetermined fluid in a void space () of an annulus () of a flexible pipe and a method for providing a predetermined fluid in a void space of an annulus are disclosed. The method comprises introducing a predetermined fluid into at least one fluid communication passageway (), e.g. an elongated conduit, in an annulus () of a flexible pipe and, via the passageway (), communicating the fluid into a void space () of the annulus at a plurality of axially spaced apart locations, e.g. via a plurality of spaced apart openings in the wall of the elongated conduit, and at a pressure of less than about around 80 psi.

Provision of predetermined fluid

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Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom

Leigh Shippen