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Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023

Filed:

Dec. 23, 2019
Applicant:

Subsea 7 Limited, Sutton, GB;

Inventor:
Assignee:

Subsea 7 Limited, Sutton, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L 1/14 (2006.01); F16L 1/16 (2006.01); E21B 17/01 (2006.01); E21B 43/01 (2006.01); F16L 1/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 17/015 (2013.01); E21B 17/017 (2013.01); E21B 43/0107 (2013.01); F16L 1/14 (2013.01); F16L 1/165 (2013.01); F16L 1/24 (2013.01);
Abstract

A subsea riser is installed by lowering at least one riser conduit to the seabed when piggybacked to an elongate support that comprises at least one flowline. The elongate support may be a pipeline bundle, which may be attached to one or more towheads in a towable bundle unit. The riser conduit may be in fluid communication with the flowline. At the seabed, a free end portion of the riser conduit is detached from the elongate support by releasing subsea-releasable fastenings. Then, with the elongate support and a root end of the riser remaining at the seabed, the detached free end portion of the riser conduit is lifted away from the elongate support to a riser support, such as a platform, an FPSO (floating production, storage and offloading vessel), or a buoy.


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