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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
May. 02, 2013
Terence Henry Sheldrake, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, GB;
Andrew Peter Roberts, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, GB;
Zhimin Tan, Houston, TX (US);
Terence Henry Sheldrake, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, GB;
Andrew Peter Roberts, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, GB;
Zhimin Tan, Houston, TX (US);
GE Oil & Gas UK Limited, Nailsea, Bristol, GB;
Abstract
A flexible pipe body and method of producing a flexible pipe body are disclosed. The flexible pipe body includes an inner fluid retaining layer; an armour layer provided radially outwards of the inner fluid retaining layer; and a buoyancy layer including a plurality of discrete elongate buoyancy elements provided radially outwards of the fluid retaining layer wound at a helical pitch angle equal to or more than 0 degrees and less than about 85 degrees to the longitudinal axis of the flexible pipe body.