Hydraulic and earth engineering – Subterranean or submarine pipe or cable laying – retrieving,... – Submerging – raising – or manipulating line of pipe or cable...
Patent
1983-06-21
1985-09-17
Taylor, Dennis L.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Subterranean or submarine pipe or cable laying, retrieving,...
Submerging, raising, or manipulating line of pipe or cable...
166341, 405169, E21B 1502
Patent
active
045417547
ABSTRACT:
An operation for re-entry to an underwater station equipped with a well apparatus.
The device comprises, fixed at the end of a rod 1 of a train of rods, a support 2 from which is suspended a module 3 formed by uprights 8 disposed concentrically and connected together, a receptacle 13 being fixed to the center of the module, which is provided with a conical housing 30 for retaining connector 15 and a re-entry cone 14, said module being suspended from the support 2 by the guide line 19 whose tension is maintained constant by the pounding compensation means formed by two cables 7 fixed to the two ends of support 2 and to the two uprights 12 of the module, while passing over fixed pulleys 20 and 21 and a mobile pulley 22 weighted with a counterweight 23.
A fitting device provided with means for compensating the pounding due to the swell.
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patent: 3983708 (1976-10-01), Houot
patent: 4167215 (1979-09-01), Thorne
patent: 4405016 (1983-09-01), Best
Castel Yvon
Iato Michel
Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine (Production) Tour Aquitaine
Taylor Dennis L.
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