Hydraulic and earth engineering – Subterranean or submarine pipe or cable laying – retrieving,... – Submerging – raising – or manipulating line of pipe or cable...
Patent
1977-01-13
1979-01-09
Stein, Mervin
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Subterranean or submarine pipe or cable laying, retrieving,...
Submerging, raising, or manipulating line of pipe or cable...
166352, 285 24, F16L 104
Patent
active
041331826
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus and method of connecting a flowline to a subsea station in which such a connection may be remotely controlled and the method employed is independent of water depth. A flowline connector apparatus which includes a receptacle connector supported by a subsea station and has its axis directed toward the approach of the flowline, an elongated connector mandrel on a proximate end of the flowline, a pulling means releasably connected to the subsea station adjacent the connector receptacle, and lock means on the receptacle for interlocking engagement with the mandrel to retain the mandrel in selected longitudinal position relative to the receptacle and with a connector end of the mandrel exposed inboardly thereof. A method of securing a flowline to a subsea station.
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patent: 3604731 (1971-09-01), Petersen
patent: 3701261 (1972-10-01), Nolan
patent: 3775986 (1973-12-01), Daughtry
patent: 3846992 (1974-11-01), Liautaud
Corbin David H.
Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine (Production)
Stein Mervin
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