Ge Oil & Gas UK Limited

Paul Snowdon

Stephen Robert Burgess

Richard Alasdair Clements

Andrew Peter Roberts

Suranjith Warnakulasuriya

John Gerard Rafferty

Philip Stephenson

An elongate tape element (), a flexible pipe body and method of producing a flexible pipe body are disclosed. The tape element has a cross-sectional profile comprising a body portion () for being positioned between collapse resistant tape windings such that each body portion lies at least partially in a gap () between adjacent collapse resistant tape windings (); and at least one wing portion () extending from an end region of the body portion (), the at least one wing portion () configured to span the gap () and respectively abut with a radially inner surface of an adjacent collapse resistant tape winding ().

Elongate tape element and method

A method, a component part of an end fitting and a preformed member for manufacturing a component part of an end fitting are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of, via an additive process, providing a near net shape (NNS) precursor corresponding to a component part of an end fitting layer-by-layer and subsequently performing at least one post NNS processing operation on the NNS precursor to provide the component part.

End fitting and method of manufacture

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Bristol, United Kingdom

Paul Snowdon