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 the vertical pipe in the currents in an ocean, including providing a rotatable interconnection between fairing sections and supporting the interconnected fairing sections independently from the vertical pipe such that the vertical pipe can be partially removed from the ocean without removing the 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 connection between said fairing sections, and
- supporting said connected fairing sections independently supported and axially slidable of 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 connection between said fairing sections,
- supporting said connected fairing sections independently supported and axially slidable of said vertical pipe,
- such that said vertical pipe can be partially removed from said ocean without raising said fairings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.