A floatable spoolbase for supplying rigid pipe to a reel-lay pipelaying vessel having a storage reel with an upright rotational axis for interim storage of a continuous length of pipe is disclosed. Welding stations upstream of the storage reel add pipe elements to the pipe to be stored on the storage reel. When a pipelaying vessel visits the spoolbase, the pipe is unwound from the storage reel and fed to a pipelay reel of the pipelaying vessel. Where the pipelay reel turns about a substantially horizontal rotational axis, winding the pipe onto the pipelay reel reduces ovalization of the pipe imparted by previously winding the pipe onto the storage reel.
Floatable spoolbase with intermediate carousel storage
Schwimmfähige Haspel-Basis mit zwischenzeitlicher Aufbewahrung auf der Haspel
Base de bobine flottante dotée d'un stockage intermédiaire
2015-09-30
Patent
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Floatable spoolbase with intermediate carousel storage
Europäisches Patentamt | 2015
|Floatable spoolbase with intermediate carousel storage
Europäisches Patentamt | 2015
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