Armour reinforcement
AssigneeGE Oil & Gas UK Limited
InventorGeoffrey Stephen Graham
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Abstract
A method for manufacturing flexible pipe body and flexible pipe body of a type suitable for transporting production fluids is disclosed. The flexible pipe body includes an armour layer comprising interlocked windings of armour tape comprising at least one armour locating element and a reinforcement layer comprising a layer of reinforcement tape comprising at least one reinforcement locating element over the armour layer. The armour locating element and reinforcement locating element locate windings of the reinforcement tape with respect to respective windings of the armour tape.
Claims23
Flexible pipe body for transporting production fluids, comprising:
- an armour layer comprising interlocked windings of armour tape comprising at least one armour locating element;
- and
- a reinforcement layer comprising a layer of reinforcement tape comprising at least one reinforcement locating element over the armour layer;
- wherein
- the armour locating element and reinforcement locating element locate windings of the reinforcement tape with respect to respective windings of the armour tape.
A method of manufacturing flexible pipe body, comprising the steps of:
- winding a reinforcement tape comprising at least one reinforcement locating element over an armour layer comprising interlocked windings of armour tape comprising at least one armour locating element;
- and
- locating windings of the armour layer with respect to respective windings of the reinforcement layer via the locating elements.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.