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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 29, 2012
Wellpartner Products As, Tananger, NO;
Haavar Soertveit, Hommersaak, NO;
Harald Wahl Breivik, Skedsmokorset, NO;
Kenneth Skinnes, Stavanger, NO;
Kjetil Samuelsen, Roeyneberg, NO;
WELLPARTNER AS, Tananger, NO;
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for rigging up intervention equipment () in a lifting arrangement () utilized on a floating vessel, and moving the intervention equipment between an inoperative and an operative position, wherein the method comprising: a) providing the lifting arrangement () with vertically extending guiding means () capable of transferring a load to the lifting arrangement; b) connecting a load transferring means () to the guiding means (); c) connecting the intervention equipment () to a load carrying device () provided with displacement means () arranged in a manner allowing a load to be horizontally displaced while carried by the load carrying device; d) connecting the load carrying device () to the load transferring means (); e) moving the intervention equipment from an inactive position to an operating position by moving the displacement means (); and f) moving the intervention equipment from the operating position to the inactive position by moving the displacement means ().