Reduced nylon hydrocarbon application cable
AssigneeWesternGeco L.L.C.
InventorsJoseph Varkey, Jushik Yun, Byong Jun Kim
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Abstract
A hydrocarbon application cable of reduced nylon with increased flexibility and useful life. The cable may be of a hose or solid configuration and particularly beneficial for use in marine operations. A power and data communicative core of the cable may be surrounded by a lightweight intermediate polymer layer of a given hardness which is ultimately then surrounded by an outer polymer jacket having a hardness that is greater than the given hardness. Thus, a lighter weight polymer is provided interior of the outer polymer jacket, which may be of nylon or other suitably hard material. As such, the overall weight and cost of the cable may be substantially reduced.
Claims8
A marine hydrocarbon application cable comprising:
- a communicative core;
- an inner polymer jacket of a first hardness about said communicative core;
- an intermediate polymer region of a given hardness about the inner polymer jacket;
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- an outer polymer jacket of a second hardness about the intermediate polymer region, the first hardness substantially equal to the second hardness and the first hardness and the second hardness greater than the given hardness.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.