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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 1981
Filed:
Mar. 12, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Peter A Lunde, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Santa Fe International Corporation, Orange, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B21D / ; E21B / ; F16L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
405158 ; 405168 ; 13735527 ;
Abstract
A system for laying subsea pipelines. The pipeline to be laid is wound on a reel which is rotatably mounted on a support structure. Both the support structure and the reel with the wound pipeline are submergible to a seabed. Both members are intended to be expendable in that once they are submerged and mounted on the seabed, they are not subsequently salvaged. After the support structure with the accompanying reel have been secured to the seabed, the pipeline is drawn off of the reel from its fixed location towards the desired termination point for the pipeline.