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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 03, 2025
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2021
Equinor Energy As, Stavanger, NO;
Åsmund Hjulstad, Bru, NO;
EQUINOR ENERGY AS, Stavanger, NO;
Abstract
The method includes providing first and second machine readable codes on an external surface of each tubular section wherein the second code encodes less information than the first code and is derivable from, or mapped to, information encoded in the first code; using a machine to read the first machine readable code at a first pipe handling location on said platform; storing information of the read first codes; moving the sections in turn to a second pipe handling location, the second pipe handling location being a tubular structure assembly location on said platform or a location intermediate said first and second locations; using an optical machine at or close to the second pipe handling location to read the second codes from positioned sections; and storing information of the read second codes and their sequence order.