US 11,186,463 B1Granted

Pipe coil deployment drum with independent paddle movement systems and methods

AssigneeTrinity Bay Equipment Holdings, LLC

InventorsTimothy John Franklin-Hensler, Jonathan Guerrero, Matthew Allen Hegler, John Paul Leger, Peter Andrew Parker, Kraig Tabor, Jagtar Singh Thethy, Alexander Lee Winn

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Abstract

Techniques for implementing and/or operating a pipe deployment system that includes pipe deployment equipment, which facilitates deploying a pipe segment from a pipe coil, and a pipe drum, which includes a drum body around which the pipe coil is to be disposed. The pipe drum is to be disposed on the pipe deployment equipment and the drum body includes a drum core as well as a lower paddle assembly and an upper paddle assembly, which are slidably secured to the drum core. The pipe deployment system maintains the paddle assemblies in a retracted state to enable the drum body to be inserted into the pipe coil, extends the lower paddle assembly to a more extended state to facilitate raising the drum core, and retracts the lower paddle assembly to a less extended state and extends the upper paddle assembly to the less extended state to facilitate lifting the pipe coil.

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Dependent claims

A pipe deployment system comprising:

pipe deployment equipment configured to facilitate deploying a pipe segment comprising tubing that defines a pipe bore and a fluid conduit within an annulus of the tubing from a pipe coil into a pipeline system;
and
a pipe drum comprising a drum body around which the pipe coil is configured to be disposed, wherein:
the pipe drum is configured to be disposed on an equipment frame of the pipe deployment equipment;
and
the drum body comprises a drum core, a lower paddle assembly slidably secured to the drum core, and an upper paddle assembly slidably secured to the drum core, wherein the pipe deployment system is configured to:
maintain the lower paddle assembly and the upper paddle assembly in a retracted state to enable the drum body to be inserted into an interior channel of the pipe coil;
extend the lower paddle assembly from the retracted state to a more extended state while maintaining the upper paddle assembly in the retracted state to facilitate raising a drum shaft included in the drum core of the drum body;
and
retract the lower paddle assembly from the more extended state to a less extended state and extend the upper paddle assembly from the retracted state to the less extended state to facilitate lifting the pipe coil disposed on the drum body off of the equipment frame of the pipe deployment equipment.

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A method of operating a pipe deployment system, comprising:

maintaining a lower paddle assembly and an upper paddle assembly of a pipe drum included in the pipe deployment system in a retracted state to enable a drum body of the pipe drum to be inserted into an interior channel of a pipe coil;
extending the lower paddle assembly from the retracted state to a more extended state while maintaining the upper paddle assembly in the retracted state to facilitate inserting a drum shaft of the drum body into a shaft opening in a drum flange of the pipe drum at least in part by raising the drum shaft;
securing the drum flange to the drum body at least in part by securing the drum shaft of the drum body in the shaft opening of the drum flange;
and
retracting the lower paddle assembly from the more extended state to a less extended state and extending the upper paddle assembly from the retracted state to the less extended state to facilitate lifting the pipe coil disposed around the drum body.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.