Reusable offshore platform with skirt piles

Patent · Tue Jul 02 04:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:6004940

Gray, D W

This patent describes a reusable apparatus for securing a skirt pile to a platform. It comprises a skirt pile sleeve secured to the leg of an offshore platform, the sleeve having upper and lower end openings sized and configured to accept a skirt pile therethrough; an insert positioned within the sleeve and extending beyond both the end openings of the sleeve, the insert located intermediate the sleeve and the skirt pile; first connecting means for securing the sleeve to the insert, the first connecting means comprising upper and lower shims securing the insert to the sleeve, the shims being positioned around the perimeter of the upper and lower end openings whereby bending and axial forces are directly transferred from the sleeve to the insert via the upper and lower shims; and second connecting means for securing the insert to the pile whereby bending and axial forces are directly transferred from the insert to the pile.

• Assignee: McDermott International, Inc., New Orleans, LA (United States)
• Patent Number(s): US 5028171; A
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-528524
• OSTI ID: 6004940
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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