Deepwater pipeline recovery

Conference · Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1997

OSTI ID:485069

McStravick, D M; Baugh, B F

The paper gives a presentation of the tooling concepts used for the recovery of steel and flexible flowlines in the Gulf of Mexico Shell Tahoe I area in the summer of 1996 in 1,370 ft. of sea water. This offshore operation required a Global Grabber to engage and retrieve 4 1/2-in. steel pipelines, an ROV Pipeline Spear to internally engage the end of the 4 1/2-in. steel pipelines, and a FlexGrip Assembly to wrap and grab 5.566-in. OD flexible pipe. The design of the tooling emphasized the use of API 17D ROV interfaces.

• OSTI ID: 485069
• Report Number(s): CONF-970146-; ISBN 1-890277-02-9; TRN: IM9727%%237
• Resource Relation: Conference: Energy week `97 conference & exhibition, Houston, TX (United States), 28-30 Jan 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of 8. annual international energy week conference and exhibition: Conference papers. Book 3: Drilling and production operations; PB: 336 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

03 NATURAL GAS
42 ENGINEERING NOT INCLUDED IN OTHER CATEGORIES
PIPELINES
MATERIALS RECOVERY
GULF OF MEXICO
NATURAL GAS
LEAKS
MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT
REPAIR
INSTALLATION
ENGINEERING DRAWINGS