Method of installing fairings around vertical pipes
OwnerBenton Frederick Baughinventor
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Abstract
The method of installing telescopic fairings system on a vertical pipe such as an oil or gas drilling riser to reduce the flow drag associated with said vertical pipe in the currents in an ocean, including providing a rotatable interconnection between fairing sections and supporting said interconnected fairing sections independently from said vertical pipe such that said vertical pipe can be partially removed from said ocean without removing said fairings.
Claims20
The method of installing fairings on a vertical pipe to reduce the fluid flow drag associated with said vertical pipe in the currents in an ocean, comprising:
- providing a multiplicity of fairing sections,
- providing a rotatable interconnection between said fairing sections, and
- supporting said interconnected fairing sections independently from said vertical pipe.
The method of installing fairing sections on a vertical pipe to reduce the fluid flow drag associated with said vertical pipe in the currents in an ocean, comprising
- providing a multiplicity of fairing sections,
- providing a rotatable interconnection between said fairing sections,
- supporting said interconnected fairing sections independently from said vertical pipe,
- such that said vertical pipe can be partially removed from said ocean without removing said fairings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.