Patents by Inventor Friedrich Henneicke

Friedrich Henneicke has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8894327
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for reeling or unreeling a pipeline having an inner corrosion-resistant metallic liner that is tightly fitted within the pipeline. To minimize or avoid wrinkling of the liner during the reeling or unreeling, a length of the pipeline is internally pressurized in a two-stage pressurizing process, and then the length of pipeline is reeled or unreeled, as the case may be. In the first stage of the pressurizing process, the length of the pipeline is filled with fluid at an elevated pressure, and in the second stage the fluid pressure is raised to a higher pressure, which may be 25 bars or more, absolute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2014
    Assignee: Subsea 7 Limited
    Inventors: John Arthur Mair, Thomas Schüller, Gernold Holler, Friedrich Henneicke, Joachim Banse
  • Patent number: 8876433
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for reeling a pipeline having an inner corrosion-resistant metallic liner that is tightly fitted within the pipeline. To minimize or avoid wrinkling of the liner during the reeling or unreeling, a length of the pipeline is internally pressurized by deploying a single sealing pig within the pipeline near to the trailing end of the pipeline and applying pressurized fluid within the pipeline, and then the length of pipeline is reeled onto a storage reel. In the pressurizing process, the length of the pipeline is filled with fluid at an elevated pressure within a range defined by a lower limit of 5 bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Subsea 7 Limited
    Inventors: John Arthur Mair, Thomas Schüller, Gernold Holler, Friedrich Henneicke, Joachim Banse
  • Publication number: 20130034390
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for reeling a pipeline having an inner corrosion-resistant metallic liner that is tightly fitted within the pipeline. To minimize or avoid wrinkling of the liner during the reeling or unreeling, a length of the pipeline is internally pressurized by deploying a single sealing pig within the pipeline near to the trailing end of the pipeline and applying pressurized fluid within the pipeline, and then the length of pipeline is reeled onto a storage reel. In the pressurizing process, the length of the pipeline is filled with fluid at an elevated pressure within a range defined by a lower limit of 5 bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventors: John Arthur Mair, Thomas Schüller, Gernold Holler, Friedrich Henneicke, Joachim Banse
  • Publication number: 20120269581
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for reeling or unreeling a pipeline having an inner corrosion-resistant metallic liner that is tightly fitted within the pipeline. To minimize or avoid wrinkling of the liner during the reeling or unreeling, a length of the pipeline is internally pressurized in a two-stage pressurizing process, and then the length of pipeline is reeled or unreeled, as the case may be. In the first stage of the pressurizing process, the length of the pipeline is filled with fluid at an elevated pressure, and in the second stage the fluid pressure is raised to a higher pressure, which may be 25 bars or more, absolute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventors: John Arthur Mair, Thomas Schüller, Gernold Holler, Friedrich Henneicke, Joachim Banse
  • Patent number: 7004250
    Abstract: A sealing system for the interspace in the transition region between two well pipes of different diameters, and a mounting tool for producing the sealing connection. The mounting tool is lowered via a drilling string through a larger diameter pipe and, with a sealing system, is placed on a holding docket on the upper end of a lower, smaller diameter, pipe. A rotation exerted on the mounting tool via the drilling string; causes the sealing system to be fixed to the lower pipe. Via the drilling string, the mounting tool is pressed vertically downwards against a sealing ring of the sealing system which, as a result, bears in a sealing manner against the inner wall of the upper pipe of larger diameter. This sealing position is fixed by rotating the mounting tool in one direction and by rotating the mounting tool in the other direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: H. Butting GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Friedrich Henneicke
  • Publication number: 20050039908
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sealing system for the interspace in the transition region between two well pipes of different diameters, and a mounting tool for producing the sealing connection. The mounting tool (1) with the sealing system suspended on it is lowered via a drilling string through the pipe of larger diameter and, with the sealing system, is placed on a holding socket on the upper end of the lower pipe of smaller diameter. By means of a rotation exerted on the mounting tool via the drilling string, the sealing system is fixed to the lower pipe. Via the drilling string, the mounting tool is pressed vertically downwards against a sealing ring of the sealing system which, as a result, bears in a sealing manner against the inner wall of the upper pipe of larger diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2003
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventor: Friedrich Henneicke