公开(公告)号：US10859185B2

公开(公告)日：2020-12-08

申请号：US16324184

申请日：2017-08-17

Applicant: Saipem S.p.A.

Inventor： Liborio Moceri ,  Valerio Coppi ,  Emmanuel Huot

IPC: F16L1/19 ,  F16L1/235 ,  F16L1/20

Abstract: The disclosure provides a pipe-laying vessel including a pipe-laying tower extending upwardly from the vessel, and the vessel includes at least three separate workstations spaced apart along the length of the tower. The disclosure also provides a pipe-laying vessel including a pipe-laying tower extending upwardly from the vessel, and the vessel includes at least two clamping assemblies for clamping a pipeline, the clamping assemblies being mounted along the length of the tower, and at least one workstation mounted on the tower. The workstation is mounted on the tower below a lowermost clamping assembly. The disclosure also provides a method of J-laying pipeline from a vessel, a method of abandoning a product from a vessel, and a method of recovering a previously abandoned product to a vessel.