Patents by Inventor Helge Ingebretsen

Helge Ingebretsen 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: 7503727
    Abstract: A pipeline termination skid to be mounted to a pipeline end section to support a pipeline hub during the connection of the pipeline hub to a corresponding spool piece hub. The pipeline termination skid is so designed that a pipeline end section may be mounted thereto subsea by lowering the pipeline end section into a seat of one or several holding devices of the pipeline termination skid and thereafter displacing the pipeline termination skid along the pipeline end section so that the respective seat is brought into engagement with an alignment element secured about the pipeline end section so as to thereby fix the pipeline end section axially and radially in relation to the pipeline termination skid. A connection arrangement includes the pipeline termination skid, a pipeline termination designed for co-operation with the termination skid and a method for subsea connection of a pipeline to a spool piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Vetco Gray Scandinavia AS
    Inventors: Helge Ingebretsen, Rolf Bastesen
  • Patent number: 7402000
    Abstract: A spool piece termination structure to be mounted to a spool piece so as to support a spool piece hub during the connection of the spool piece hub to a corresponding pipeline hub. The termination structure includes a clamping device for clamping together the spool piece hub and pipeline hub, and a base frame openly shaped downwards so as to allow the termination structure to receive a pipeline end section provided with the pipeline hub by lowering the termination structure downwards onto the pipeline end section. A connection arrangement includes such a spool piece termination structure and a method for subsea connection of a pipeline to a spool piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2008
    Assignee: Vetco Gray Scandinavia AS
    Inventors: Rolf Bastesen, Helge Ingebretsen, Fredrik Witting
  • Publication number: 20070269270
    Abstract: A pipeline termination skid to be mounted to a pipeline end section to support a pipeline hub during the connection of the pipeline hub to a corresponding spool piece hub. The pipeline termination skid is so designed that a pipeline end section may be mounted thereto subsea by lowering the pipeline end section into a seat of one or several holding devices of the pipeline termination skid and thereafter displacing the pipeline termination skid along the pipeline end section so that the respective seat is brought into engagement with an alignment element secured about the pipeline end section so as to thereby fix the pipeline end section axially and radially in relation to the pipeline termination skid. A connection arrangement includes the pipeline termination skid, a pipeline termination designed for co-operation with the termination skid and a method for subsea connection of a pipeline to a spool piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2005
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Inventors: Rolf Bastesen, Helge Ingebretsen
  • Publication number: 20070009328
    Abstract: A spool piece termination structure to be mounted to a spool piece so as to support a spool piece hub during the connection of the spool piece hub to a corresponding pipeline hub. The termination structure includes a clamping device for clamping together the spool piece hub and pipeline hub, and a base frame openly shaped downwards so as to allow the termination structure to receive a pipeline end section provided with the pipeline hub by lowering the termination structure downwards onto the pipeline end section. A connection arrangement includes such a spool piece termination structure and a method for subsea connection of a pipeline to a spool piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Applicant: VETCO AIBEL AS
    Inventors: Rolf Bastesen, Helge Ingebretsen, Fredrik Witting
  • Publication number: 20040207198
    Abstract: Pipe system for subsea installations for offshore production or processing of hydrocarbons, for interconnection of or internal connections in functional units, such as Xmas trees (1) and manifold modules (2), where a pipe connection comprises communicating pipe branches (5,7,8) which run with mutual angle deviation or parallel to each other. A pipe branch (5) is provided with a bellows device (11) for obtaining a certain possibility of movement of the pipe branch, and a second pipe branch (7) is also provided with bellows device (12) for obtaining a certain possibility of movement of the second pipe branch (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2004
    Publication date: October 21, 2004
    Inventors: Patrice Aguilera, Helge Ingebretsen
  • Patent number: 6206742
    Abstract: A method and a buoyancy device adapted to impart buoyancy to at least one longitudinal element submerged in water. The buoyancy device is hollow and is preferably made of plastic or a similarly corrosion-resistant material. The device is preferably produced as one single unit, but may include several separate chambers which, via valves, may be brought into communicating connection with the surroundings, in a controlled manner. The device will therefore not be subjected to large differential pressures in use, and accordingly may have relatively thin walls. The buoyancy device has a much lower weight than prior-art buoys, is simpler to assemble, and is not subject to corrosion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: ABB Offshore Technology AS
    Inventors: Henrik Bull, Helge Ingebretsen