Subsea 7 Norway As

Torstein Meling

Oivind Stangeland

William Tobias Bird

Robert Archer

Marijana Tomas

ØIvind Stangeland

Sigbjørn Daasvatn

A multiple pig launcher includes a tubular structure along which a series of pipeline pigs may be advanced in stepwise fashion to be launched into a pipeline in succession. A launching station holds a first pig at a downstream end of the series in readiness for launch. A pig stopper mechanism is operable selectively to hold a second pig at a holding station upstream of the launching station when launching the first pig and to release the second pig from the holding station to be advanced into the launching station after the first pig has been launched. The pig stopper mechanism comprises at least one radially movable gripper element that can apply radially inward gripping force to a pig held at the holding station.

Subsea pig launchers

A subsea foundation for supporting a pipeline or a pipeline accessory has a mudmat and at least one pile arranged to anchor the mudmat by extending from the mudmat into seabed soil. A coupling that couples the pile to the mudmat has at least one interface member supported for angular displacement relative to the mudmat, such as a pivoting beam or a wedge-shaped adaptor ring, to accommodate the orientation of the mudmat relative to the pile.

Subsea foundations

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Tananger, Norway

Torstein Meling