SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CARRYING OUT OPERATIONS ALONG AN ANNULAR JUNCTION PORTION OF A PIPELINE AND LAYING VESSEL COMPRISING SAID SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20210299797A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-09-30

    申请号:US17262104

    申请日:2019-07-26

    Applicant: SAIPEM S.p.A.

    Abstract: A system for carrying out operations along an annular junction portion of a pipeline is provided with: a frame comprising a C-shaped structure, which is configured to be selectively clamped about a pipeline extending along a longitudinal axis and near an annular junction portion, and at least one driving device arranged along an arc of an annular path and coupled to the structure; a support arm configured to rest on the pipeline and connected to the structure for maintaining the laying plane of the driving device substantially orthogonal to the longitudinal axis; a carriage slideably coupled to the driving device; and at least one operating device configured to carry out operations along the annular junction portion and cantilever supported by said annular segment.

    SOx CAPTURE USING CARBONATE ABSORBENT
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    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20200368679A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-11-26

    申请号:US16637217

    申请日:2018-08-10

    Applicant: SAIPEM S.P.A.

    Abstract: A desulfurization gas process includes water vapor, CO2 and SOx (x=2 and/or 3). In a treatment unit, the gas contacts a cooled alkaline aqueous solution having a temperature lower than an initial gas temperature, water and a carbonate of an alkali metal, to cool the gas, condense some water vapor and absorb SOx in the carbonate-containing solution, produce an SOx-depleted gas and an acidic aqueous solution including sulfate and/or sulfite ions. The SOx-depleted gas and a portion of the acidic aqueous solution can then be withdrawn from the treatment unit. Carbonate of the alkali metal can be added to remaining acidic aqueous solution to obtain a made-up alkaline aqueous solution. This solution can be cooled and reused as the cooled alkaline aqueous solution. An SOx absorbent solution includes a bleed stream from a CO2-capture process, sodium or potassium carbonate, and an acidic aqueous solution obtained from desulfurization.

    Pipe handling system and method of joining pipe sections

    公开(公告)号:US10788147B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-29

    申请号:US15505295

    申请日:2015-08-21

    Applicant: SAIPEM S.P.A.

    Abstract: A method of joining a first pipe section to a second pipe section includes positioning the two pipe sections in an end-to-end configuration to define therebetween a joint to be welded, measuring the degree of alignment of the pipe sections when they are in the end-to-end configuration in a position ready for welding, ascertaining the relative movement required of the pipe sections in order to improve their alignment, effecting the relative movement so ascertained, and welding together the two pipe sections. The method may include the use of geometric data of the end of the pipes in order to ascertain the relative movement required of the pipe sections. A control unit may be used to calculate, using such data, a target orientation that lines up the pipe sections. The measuring step may be performed using, for example, a laser or a camera and backlight.

    METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATING TO PIPE WELDING

    公开(公告)号:US20200292102A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-09-17

    申请号:US16765723

    申请日:2018-11-22

    Applicant: Saipem S.p.A.

    Abstract: A method of aligning first and second pipes end-to-end in a position ready for welding. Each pipe has an end bevelled with a shape scanned and stored in memory of a control unit. At least one of the pipes has machine readable codes distributed around their circumference of the pipe. The method includes effecting relative movement of the ends of the first and second pipes towards each other, reading at least one of the codes with a reader, and ascertaining the relative movement required to align the pipes in accordance with a target orientation. The relative movement is ascertained with information provided by the read code and the shapes of the bevelled ends stored in the control unit memory. In other aspects, a closed loop control method and machine-learning may be used to align the pipes. A pipe-laying vessel including pipe handling equipment and the control unit is also provided.

    Underwater hydrocarbon processing facility

    公开(公告)号:US10415350B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-17

    申请号:US15546570

    申请日:2016-02-05

    Applicant: SAIPEM S.p.A.

    Abstract: An underwater hydrocarbon processing facility has at least one fluid processing clusters provided with modules having, each, one fluid processing device and a plurality of first connection members configured to define the inlet and the outlet of the process fluids; and an interconnection unit having a plurality of second connection members defining inlet and outlet for the process fluids and configured to be operatively coupled to corresponding first connection members configured to operatively interconnect the modules.

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