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Pipeline cable deployment apparatus and method

US6561488B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateApr 14, 2000
Grant dateMay 13, 2003
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Expiry dateApr 14, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B6/4458
  • WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A fiber optic communication cable is deployed in a pipeline from a static coil drawn from a rearwardly facing exit of a cassette carried by a pipeline pig as the pig is driven along the pipeline from a launcher having a drive fluid inlet and a cable anchorage with a pressure penetrator for connecting an instrumentation cable to the deployed cable.

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