Hydraulic and earth engineering – Marine structure or fabrication thereof – Structure protection
Patent
1977-11-03
1979-12-04
Corbin, David H.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Marine structure or fabrication thereof
Structure protection
9 8P, 166350, 405195, E21B 712
Patent
active
041769864
ABSTRACT:
A marine drilling riser is provided with a plurality of buoyancy cans having fail safe dump valves operative to vent compressed gas from the buoyancy cans and thereby cause rapid loss of buoyancy.
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Heilhecker Joe K.
Taft Daniel G.
Corbin David H.
Exxon Production Research Company
Graham Robert L.
Martin Robert B.
Nametz Michael A.
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