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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2017
Saipem S.a., Montigny le Bretonneux, FR;
Vincent Cocault-Duverger, Herbeville, FR;
Antoine Jardin, Versailles, FR;
Vincent Chojnacki, Suresnes, FR;
SAIPEM S.A., Montigny le Bretonneux, FR;
Abstract
A method of installing at sea a double-walled preheated undersea pipe for transporting fluids, wherein for each new pipe section to be assembled to a pipe that is already installed at sea: the method involves preheating the inner wall unit element inside the outer wall unit element of the new pipe section; assembling the inner wall unit elements of the new pipe section to the inner wall of the pipe that is already installed at sea; assembling the outer wall unit element of the new pipe section to the outer wall of the pipe that is already installed at sea; lowering the new pipe section into the sea; and repeating the above for other new pipe sections to be assembled so as to prestress the pipe while it is being installed at sea.