Priority Date: 2002-01-25
According to the present invention, a solution is provided whereby rather than directly towing a pipe ( 30 ) from a tug ( 11 ), a cable ( 23 ) is suspended between two surface vessels ( 10, 11 ), and it is from this cable ( 23 ) that the pipe ( 30 ) itself is suspended at a plurality of points. By means of this arrangement, stress and fatigue is absorbed by the cable ( 23 ) rather than the pipe ( 30 ), such that the pipe ( 30 ) arrives at its installation point with a correspondingly smaller loss in fatigue life.
Publication info:
- WO03062688 (A1) | 2003-07-31
- US2006150884 (A1) | 2006-07-13
- US7314016 (B2) | 2008-01-01
- GB2384537 (A) | 2003-07-30
- GB2384537 (B) | 2005-06-08
- EP1468215 (A1) | 2004-10-20
- EP1468215 (B1) | 2008-04-23
- DK1468215 (T3) | 2008-08-18
- AT393345 (T) | 2008-05-15
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