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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 11, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2004
John Christian Hartley Mungall, Houston, TX (US);
Khamir Girish Joshi, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Craig Wonder Lamison, Houston, TX (US);
John Christian Hartley Mungall, Houston, TX (US);
Khamir Girish Joshi, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Craig Wonder Lamison, Houston, TX (US);
Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Various apparatuses and methods to traverse an undersea topographic feature () with a subsea pipeline () are disclosed. The apparatuses and methods of the present invention accomplish this task through the use of a concentrated buoyancy scheme (). The invention disclosed can allow more efficient and cost effective traversal of hostile terrain for subsea pipelines at great depths while minimizing the risk of rupturing the pipeline () or negatively impacting the surrounding undersea environment.