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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2003
Filed:
May. 15, 2001
Peter Johnson Worman, Katy, TX (US);
Charles Russell Yemington, Kemah, TX (US);
Jason Charles McCanna, Houston, TX (US);
James Alan Soliah, Houston, TX (US);
David Earl LaPorte, Houston, TX (US);
Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
An underwater cable deployment system includes a series of cables, pre-wound on a set of reels, disposed upon a pallet and connected to a distribution hub on the pallet. The pallet is lowered to the ocean floor and a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) is also lowered to the ocean floor to deploy cables to form a predetermined array on the ocean floor. Preferably, the pallet is delivered to the ocean floor in advance by crane with the reel-mounted sensor array cables being deployed later by ROV. Optionally, the ROV may include a jetting package configured to bury the sensor cable as it is being deployed from the reel on the ROV.