EP1005591A4 - Procede et appareil pour l'installation offshore d'ensembles de plusieurs tonnes tels que des ensembles plate-formes prefabiques et des treillis - Google Patents

Procede et appareil pour l'installation offshore d'ensembles de plusieurs tonnes tels que des ensembles plate-formes prefabiques et des treillis

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EP1005591A4
EP1005591A4 EP98944478A EP98944478A EP1005591A4 EP 1005591 A4 EP1005591 A4 EP 1005591A4 EP 98944478 A EP98944478 A EP 98944478A EP 98944478 A EP98944478 A EP 98944478A EP 1005591 A4 EP1005591 A4 EP 1005591A4
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B27/00—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers
    • B63B27/36—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for floating cargo
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B27/00—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers
    • B63B27/10—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers of cranes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B27/00—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers
    • B63B27/19—Other loading or unloading equipment involving an intermittent action, not provided in groups B63B27/04 - B63B27/18
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B35/00—Vessels or similar floating structures specially adapted for specific purposes and not otherwise provided for
    • B63B35/003—Vessels or similar floating structures specially adapted for specific purposes and not otherwise provided for for transporting very large loads, e.g. offshore structure modules
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B77/00—Transporting or installing offshore structures on site using buoyancy forces, e.g. using semi-submersible barges, ballasting the structure or transporting of oil-and-gas platforms
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63C—LAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS; LIFE-SAVING IN WATER; EQUIPMENT FOR DWELLING OR WORKING UNDER WATER; MEANS FOR SALVAGING OR SEARCHING FOR UNDERWATER OBJECTS
    • B63C7/00—Salvaging of disabled, stranded, or sunken vessels; Salvaging of vessel parts or furnishings, e.g. of safes; Salvaging of other underwater objects
    • B63C7/02—Salvaging of disabled, stranded, or sunken vessels; Salvaging of vessel parts or furnishings, e.g. of safes; Salvaging of other underwater objects in which the lifting is done by hauling
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02B—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
    • E02B17/00—Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legs or offshore constructions; Construction methods therefor
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02B—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
    • E02B17/00—Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legs or offshore constructions; Construction methods therefor
    • E02B2017/0039—Methods for placing the offshore structure
    • E02B2017/0047—Methods for placing the offshore structure using a barge

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  • the present invention relates to the placement of large multi-ton prefabricated deck packages (e.g. oil and gas platforms, oil rigs) in an offshore environment upon a usually partially submerged jacket that extends between the seabed and the water surface. Even more particularly, the present invention relates to the use of a moving lifting assembly which is preferably barge supported that can place a very large deck package upon an offshore marine jacket foundation without the use of enormous lifting booms such as form a part of derrick barges, offshore cranes, and the like, and wherein opposed short booms are connected with a frame or compressive spreader members that enable use of suspended slings to lift the deck package
  • large multi-ton prefabricated deck packages e.g. oil and gas platforms, oil rigs
  • a moving lifting assembly which is preferably barge supported that can place a very large deck package upon an offshore marine jacket foundation without the use of enormous lifting booms such as form a part of derrick barges, offshore cranes, and the like, and wherein opposed short booms are connected with a frame or
  • the search for oil and gas is often conducted in a marine environment. Sometimes the search takes place many miles offshore. Oil and gas well drilling takes place in many hundreds of feet of water depth.
  • deck platform as used herein should be understood to include any of a large variety of prefabricated structures that are placed on an offshore foundation to form a fixed or floating offshore platform.
  • a “deck-platform” can include, e.g. a drilling rig, a production platform, a crew quarters, living quarters, or the like.
  • a supporting jacket is usually a very large multi-chord base formed of multiple sections of structural tubing or pipe that are welded together.
  • Such jackets have been used for a number of years for the purpose of supporting large deck platforms in an offshore environment.
  • the jacket or foundation is usually prefabricated on land in a fabrication yard, preferably adjacent to a navigable waterway.
  • the completed jacket can be placed upon a large transport barge so that it can be moved to the drill site where it will be placed upon the ocean floor.
  • an offshore jacket can be several hundred feet in length.
  • the size of the jacket is of course a function of the depth of water in which the rig will be placed. A five hundred (500) foot water depth at the drill site (or production site) will require a jacket which is approximately 500-
  • a small upper portion of the jacket extends above the water surface. This exposed portion of the jacket is the portion upon which the "deck platform" is placed and supported by. This upper portion of the jacket is usually equipped with a number of alignment devices which enhance the proper placement of the deck package on the jacket. Such alignment devices are referred to variously as stabbing eyes, sockets, or the like. The use of such alignment devices, sockets, or stabbing eyes can be seen in the Blight, et al Patent Nos. 4,252,468 and 4,252,469 as well as in the Kansan U.S. Patent No. 4,242,011. For purposes of background and reference, the Kansan patent 4,242,011 is incorporated herein by reference. The Blight, et al U.S. Patent Nos. 4,252,469 and 4,252,468 are likewise each incorporated herein by reference.
  • Deck platforms or topsides can be extremely large and have correspondingly heavy weights. For example, it is not uncommon for a deck platform such as a drilling rig crew quarters, production platform or the like to be between five hundred and five thousand (500 and 5,000) tons gross weight. Topsides in excess often thousand (10,000) tons have been installed, and others that are being planned may weigh as much as thirty thousand (30,000) tons. Such enormous load values present significant problems in the placement of deck platforms on offshore jacket structures. First, the placement is done entirely in a marine environment.
  • the platform While the jacket can be laid on its side and/or floated into position, the platform is not a submersible structure, and must be generally supported in an upright condition above the water surface to prevent water damage to the many components that form a part of the drilling or production platform (such as electrical systems, wall constructions, and other portions that will be inhabited by individuals and used as oil and gas well drilling or production equipment).
  • the art has typically used enormous derrick barges for the purpose of setting or placing deck packages on jackets in an offshore environment.
  • These derrick barges are large, rectangular barge structures with a high capacity lifting boom mounted at one end portion of the deck of the barge.
  • the barge for example might be three hundred to four hundred (300-400) feet in length, fifty to seventy five (50-75) feet in width, and twenty-five to fifty (25-50) feet deep.
  • a derrick barge might have a lifting capacity of for example, two thousand (2,000) tons.
  • two derrick barges can be used, each supporting one side portion of the deck platform with a multi- line lift system supported by an enormous structural boom extending high into the air above the package during the lift.
  • the boom simply works in the same way as an anchor lifting boom, namely the loadline raises and/or lowers the package into its proper position upon the jacket.
  • derrick barges While the use of such derrick barges has been very successful in the placing of offshore deck packages on jackets through the years, such derrick barges are generally limited in their capacity to packages of two thousand (2,000) tons or less. Further, derrick barges of such an enormous capacity are extremely expensive to manufacture and operate. Many thousand of dollars per hour as a cost of using such a device is not uncommon. Although there are five (5) or six (6) derrick barges that can lift in excess of six thousand (6,000) tons, they are extremely costly and limited as to the water depth in which they can operate.
  • U.S. Patent 4,714,382 issued to Jon Khachaturian there is disclosed a method and apparatus for the offshore installation of multi-ton prefabricated deck packages on partially submerged jacket foundations.
  • the Khachaturian patent uses a variable dimensional truss assembly is supported by the barge and forms a load transfer interface between the barge and the deck package. Upper and lower connections form attachments between the truss members and the deck package at upper and lower elevational positions on the deck package.
  • the variable dimension truss includes at least one member of variable length, in the preferred embodiment being a winch powered cable that can be extended and retracted by winding and unwinding the winch. Alternate embodiments include the use of a hydraulic cylinder as an example.
  • Wilson relates to a platform which is floated in place and the support legs are then placed under the floating platform.
  • an in-place underlying supporting jacket is not contemplated.
  • the Natvig, et al U.S. Patent No. 3,977,346 discusses a method of placing a deck structure upon a building site such as a pier.
  • the method includes the pre-assembly of a deck structure upon a base structure on land so that the deck structure extends outwardly over a body of water.
  • Floating barges are provided for supporting the deck structure outwardly of the building site.
  • the deck structure is then transferred to the supportive base structure by means of barges.
  • the Natvig reference uses two barges which are placed on opposite sides of a platform with pedestal type fixed supports forming a load transfer member between the barges and the platform.
  • the fixed pedestal of Natvig is unlike the truss-like lifting arrangement of applicant which include movable portions at least one of which can be of a variable length.
  • U.S. Patent No. 4,249,618, issued to Jacques E. Lamy discloses a method of working an underwater deposit comprising the following stages: a) constructing an positioning a platform structure, equipped before or after positioning with drilling devices and installations, b) executing drilling using these devices and installations, c) constructing and equipping, during stages a) and b), a production bridge fitted with devices and installations required for production, d) transporting the production bridge to, and positioning it on, said platform structure, and e) commencing production from deposit.
  • the drilling bridge may remain in position on the platform structure during stages d) and e) or it may be removed to make way for the production bridge.
  • U.S. Patent No. 4,744,697, issued to Anton Coppens discloses a vessel that is provided for installing or removing a module on or from a support structure erected in a body of water.
  • the vessel is able to suspend the module over the support structure by cranes enabling installation or removal of the module to be accomplished while the module is being suspended.
  • U.S. Patent No. 5,037,241 issued to Stephen D. Vaughn et al. discloses an improved apparatus for setting a deck structure or other marine superstructure using a barge mounted cantilevered support structure.
  • the cantilevered support structure is attached at one end of a floating vessel.
  • the cantilevered support structure extends past the edge of the vessel and, in one embodiment, includes means for rotating parallel support members about the deck of the floating vessel permitting the cantilevered support structure to be raised and lowered while it remains substantially parallel with the top of the offshore platform enabling the superstructure to engage the top of a previously installed offshore platform in a synchronized manner.
  • this superstructure may be aligned directly over the platform.
  • a cantilevered drilling rig is then aligned over the cantilevered support structure and used to lift the deck structure or marine superstructure, permitting the vessel and cantilevered support structure to move.
  • the drilling rig is then used to lower the marine superstructure onto the top of the previously installed offshore platform.
  • the present invention provides an improved method and apparatus for the lifting and/or placement of a multi-ton package such as a deck package, jacket, or sunken vessel. Also the present invention provides an improved method and apparatus for the removal of a multi-ton package from a marine environment, water surface, or ocean floor (i.e., sunken vessel) or from an offshore jacket.
  • the present invention discloses an improvement to the variable dimension truss assembly disclosed in U.S. Patent 4,714,382 incorporated herein by reference.
  • the apparatus includes one or more barges defining a base that supports the large multi- ton load of the deck package.
  • truss-like lifting device includes a barge mounted on each side of the deck package to be lifted during operation.
  • two barges are used respectively, each having at least one truss-like lifting device on its upper deck surface.
  • the truss preferably includes inclined and opposed booms mounted respectively on each barge, and a horizontal chord member of variable length that employs a cable wound upon a winch on each barge so that the cross-sectional dimensions of the truss can be varied by paying out or reeling in cable from the winch.
  • the truss forms a load transfer between each barge and the package to be lifted (e.g., deck package, or jacket) and/or placed.
  • Upper and lower connections are formed between the lifting truss and the deck package at respective upper and lower elevational positions.
  • Power is provided, preferably in the form of the winch and its cable mounted on each barge for changing the length of the horizontal chord, variable length member of the truss so that elevational position of the deck package with respect to the barge can be varied such as during a lifting or lowering of the package (such as to or from a jacket foundation).
  • the multi-ton deck package is first transported on a transport barge to the site where it will eventually assist in the drilling oil and/or production of a well.
  • a lifting assembly is attached to the package on generally opposite sides of the package and at upper and lower positions.
  • One element of the truss-like lifting assembly preferably includes a movable horizontal chord portion which has a variable length.
  • the movable portion is a winch powered cable extending from each winch to a padeye connection on the package (e.g., using sheaves) to be lifted or lowered, wherein the cable can be extended or retracted between the lift barge and the deck package being lifted or lowered.
  • two lift barges support respectively first and second pluralities of truss-like lifting assemblies which in combination with the package form an overall truss arrangement. That is, the deck package itself can form a portion of the truss during the lift (typically carrying tension), and may carry both compression and tension loads.
  • the truss-like lifting assemblies have multiple booms (e.g., four) on each barge that are connected at their upper end portions to the package using a boom lifting end portion that elevates to engage a receptacle on the package.
  • An improved connection between the booms and package is provided that uses a specially configured lifting end portion on each boom and a corresponding number receptacles on the deck package (e.g., welded thereto).
  • the lifting end portions support the package and can elevate it above the surface of any transport barge, so that the transport barge can be removed as a support for packages such as jackets or deck packages.
  • packages such as jackets or deck packages.
  • This allows the package to be placed vertically above a jacket foundation and aligned with the foundation so that the deck package can be placed upon the foundation by lowering.
  • the transport barge can be removed so that the jacket can be lowered into the water and floated prior to installation.
  • the present invention allows a dimensional change in the cross-sectional configuration of the truss with respect to a vertical cross section of the truss and provides a means of raising and lowering the selected package.
  • FIGURE 1 is a perspective view of the preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention
  • FIGURE 2 is a partial perspective view of the preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention.
  • FIGURE 2 A is a partial sectional elevational view of the preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention.
  • FIGURE 3 is a perspective fragmentary view of the preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention illustrating the lifting end portion thereof;
  • FIGURE 4 is a sectional view taken along lines 4-4 of Figure 3;
  • FIGURE 5 is a fragmentary perspective view of the preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention illustrating the receptacle portion thereof;
  • FIGURE 6 is a partial sectional elevational view of preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention illustrating engagement of the boom lifting end portion and receptacle such as during lifting of a heavy deck package;
  • FIGURE 7 is a fragmentary perspective view of the preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention illustrating the bridle plate and variable length tensile member portions thereof; and
  • FIGURE 8 is a perspective fragmentary view of the preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention illustrating the boom and heel pin padeye portions thereof.
  • FIGURE 9 is a perspective fragmentary view of the preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention illustrating the movable load spreader platform portion thereof;
  • FIGURE 10 is a sectional view taken along lines 10-10 of Figure 9;
  • FIGURE 11 is a fragmentary perspective view of the preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention illustrating the movable load spreader platform portion thereof and its connection to the boom support connecting members; and
  • FIGURE 12 is a partial perspective exploded view of the preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention illustrating the movable load spreader platform portion thereof. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
  • FIGs 1 and 2 show generally the preferred embodiment of the apparatus of the present invention designated generally by the numeral 10 in Figure 1.
  • Lifting apparatus 10 utilizes a pair of spaced apart marine barges 11, 12 each having a respective deck 13, 14.
  • the barges 11, 12 float on water surface 15 adjacent an underwater jacket 16 having its uppermost portion exposed in the form of a plurality of vertical columns 18 as shown in Figures 1 and 2.
  • underwater jackets 16 for the purpose of supporting any number of offshore structures is well known in the art.
  • a drilling platform, production platform, machine shop, storage facility, or like offshore structure is manufactured on land as a heavy deck package and then transported to a selected offshore marine location for placement on a jacket 16.
  • the jacket is also usually manufactured on land as a one-piece unit, towed to a selected site on a transport vessel such as a barge, and then transferred from the barge to the marine environment.
  • the lower end portion of the jacket engages the ocean floor or seabed with the upper vertical columns 18 extending above the water surface 15 as shown in Figures 1 and 2. This procedure for placing jackets so that they can support a heavy deck package 17 in a marine environment is well known in the art.
  • variable truss arrangement that uses two spaced apart barges for placing a deck package on a jacket.
  • the Khachaturian '382 patent uses a variable dimensional truss assembly that is supported by the barge and forms a load transfer interface between the barge and the deck package.
  • Upper and lower connections form attachments between the truss members and the deck package at upper and lower elevational positions on the deck package.
  • the upper connection in the '382 patent is a pinned connection.
  • the variable dimension truss of the '382 patent includes at least one member of variable length, in the preferred embodiment being a winch powered cable that can be extended and retracted by winding and unwinding the winch.
  • the deck package 17 is spaced above the vertical columns 18 of jacket 16.
  • the lifting apparatus 10 of the present invention slowly lowers the deck package 17 to the j acket 16 until lower end portions 19 of the deck package 17 engage and form a connection with the vertical columns 18 of the jacket 16.
  • Deck packages 17 are usually constructed of a plurality of welded steel pipe members including at least some of the members that are vertical.
  • a plurality of vertical members 20 are shown, each having a lower end portion 19 that connects with the vertical columns 18 of jacket 16.
  • Each of the barges 11, 12 carries a plurality of booms 21, 22.
  • the first barge 11 has four booms 21 in Figures 1 and 2.
  • the second barge 12 has four correspondingly positioned booms 22.
  • the booms 21, 22 are equally spaced along the deck 13 or 14 of the corresponding barge 11 or 12 and corresponding to the position and horizontal spacing of the vertical members 20 of package 17.
  • each of the booms 21, 22 is supported upon a load spreader platform 23 or 24.
  • the load spreader platform 23, 24 can be a combination of static load spreader platforms 23 and movable load spreader platforms 24. For example, if each barge 11, 12 has three booms, one platform 24 can be movable. If four booms, two or three platforms 24 can be movable.
  • the static load spreader platforms 23 are rigidly welded to and connected to the deck 13 of barge 11, or to the deck 14 of barge 12.
  • Base plate 27 is rigidly welded to platform 23.
  • Each load spreader platform 23, 24 has a pair of spaced apart boom heel pin padeyes 25, 26 mounted on structural base plate 27.
  • the base plate 27 can be welded for example to its load spreader platform 23 if a "fixed" platform 23 is desired.
  • Each load spreader platform 23, 24 can be constructed of a plurality of perimeter beams 28 and a plurality of internal beams 29 with plate 27 mounted thereon.
  • the booms 21, 22 can be constructed of a pair of diagonally extending compression members 30 that form an acute angle.
  • each compression member 30 has a pair of spaced apart end caps 31 attached to each of its end portions. This is preferably a removable connection so that compression members 30 of differing lengths can be used for different lifts and the end caps 31 can be reused.
  • Cross bar 30 A spans between connecting members 35 as shown in Figure 1, its ends being connected to members 35 using pinned connections with pins 39.
  • Each end cap 31 is preferably comprised of a cylindrical sleeve 32 and a plurality of plate members 33 as shown in Figure 8.
  • Each plate member 33 has an opening 34 that receives a pin 39.
  • Connecting members 35 form a pinned connection with end cap 31 as shown in Figures 1, 2, and 8.
  • the connecting member 35 includes a plurality of plates 36 that are parallel and a second plurality of plates 37 that are perpendicularly positioned with respect to the first plates 36 as shown in Figure 8.
  • Each of the plates 37 has an opening 38 for accepting pin 39 when the connecting member 35 is attached to end cap 31 as shown in Figures 2 and 8.
  • the connecting member 35 has openings 40 in each of the plates 36. This enables the plates 36 to be attached with a pinned connection to the heel pin padeyes 25, 26 as shown in Figures 2 and 8.
  • a variable length tensile member 42 extends between heel pin padeyes 25, 26 and a vertical member 20 of package 17. As shown in Figure 1, this centers a variable length tensile member 42 and a boom 21 or 22 on each vertical member 20. As shown in Figure 1, there are four spaced apart vertical members 20, each having a respective boom 21 or 22 connected thereto and each having a variable length tensile member 42 extending from the barge 11 or 12 to the vertical member 20. Each variable length tensile member 42 includes a cable 43 wound upon a pair of sheaves
  • the sheave 45 is constructed of a pair of plates 46 that are spaced apart so that padeye 50 fits in between the plates 46.
  • a pinned connection can be formed between padeye 50 and plates 46 of sheave 44 using pin 52 that is inserted through the openings 47 of plate 46 and the opening 51 of padeye 50.
  • the padeye 50 is structurally connected (welded, for example) to bridle plate 48.
  • the bridle plate 48 includes a structural plate body 49 having a pair of plates 53 and 54 at its end portions respectively as shown in Figure 7.
  • Each of the plates 53, 54 has openings 55 through which pin 41 can be inserted when the plates 53 or 54 are connected to respective heel pin padeyes 25, 26, as shown in Figures 2 and 7 e.g., with a load cell 89.
  • Each boom 21, 22 provides a lifting end portion 56 that is shown particularly in Figures 2 and 3-6.
  • the lifting end portion 56 of each boom 21, 22 forms a connection with a receptacle 70 that is mounted on vertical member 20 as shown in Figures 1, 2, 5, and 6.
  • the lifting end portion 56 is constructed of a plurality of spaced apart parallel plates 57. Each plate 57 has an opening 58. Gaps 59, 60 are provided for receiving plates 33 of an end cap 31. This connection can be seen in Figures 2 and 6.
  • the lifting end portion 56 provides a pair of inner plates 61 that can be parallel to one another and a pair of outer plates 62 that can form an acute angle.
  • Roller 63 is positioned in openings formed through the plates 61 as shown in Figures 3 and 4.
  • Each roller 63 is preferably of an hour glass shape, having a narrow or neck portion 64 and a pair of cylindrically-shaped end portions 65.
  • Arrow 66 in Figure 4 illustrates that the roller 63 can move side to side for adjustment purposes when the booms 21 and 22 are connected to the receptacle 70 and thus to the deck package 17.
  • Stop plates 67 are shaped to limit movement of the roller 63 as it moves from one side to the other as shown by arrow 66.
  • Lifting end portion 56 can be connected to the selected boom 21 or 22 with pin connections 69 as shown in Figure 6.
  • the openings 58 in plates 57 receive a pin therethrough, that pin also passing through the openings 34 in plates 33 of end cap 31.
  • Receptacle 70 is shown more particularly in Figures 2, 5, and 6.
  • Receptacle 70 includes a curved plate 71 that is attached to vertical member 20 of deck package 17, being structurally affixed thereto by welding, for example.
  • Receptacle 70 is formed of a plurality of flat plates including a center plate 72 and a pair of smaller side plates 73, 74, as shown in Figure 5.
  • Recess 75 receives roller 63 upon engagement of lifting end portion 56 and receptacle 70 as shown in Figure 6.
  • the neck 64 portion of roller 63 is of a reduced diameter and is shaped to engage inclined edge 76 of plate 72, then travel upwardly along inclined edge 76 until the neck 64 of roller 63 fully nests in recess 75 of receptacle 70. This fully engaged position of lifting end portion 56 and receptacle 70 is shown in Figure 2.
  • the receptacle 70 is formed of a pair of vertical sections 77 and 78, and a transversely extending section 79.
  • the section 79 can have a flat upper surface that receives reinforcing plate 80, that can be a horizontally extending plate.
  • reinforcing plate 80 that can be a horizontally extending plate.
  • the horizontal plate 80 is rigidly affixed to the bottom of a horizontal beam 81 by welding, for example. This enables the loads transmitted from lifting end portion 56 to receptacle 70 to be transferred to the deck package 17 at vertical member 20 and at horizontal beam 81.
  • arrows 82 illustrate the upward movement of lifting end portion 56 that is used to nests roller 63 in recess 75 of receptacle 70.
  • arrow 83 illustrates the upward and downward movement of lifting end portion 56 of booms 21 and 22 to either engage or disengage the boom 21 or 22 from the deck package 17.
  • the cable 43 is unwound using a winch that is carried on the surface of deck 13 or 14 of barge 11 or 12. This lengthens the distance between heel pin padeyes 25, 26 and the deck package 17.
  • the variable length tensile member 42 is elongated so that the booms 21 and 22 rotate downwardly about their heel pin padeyes 25, 26 creating a smaller and smaller angle between the compression members 30 and the barge decks 13, 14. This procedure is reversed in order to lift a deck package 17 upwardly with respect to water surface 15 and jacket 16.
  • the winch mounted on the deck 13 or 14 of the barges 11 and 12 winds the cable 43 to shorten the distance between sheaves 44, 45.
  • This likewise shortens the distance between the heel pin padeyes 25 and 26 on barge 11 with respect to the heel pin padeyes 25 and 26 on barge 12.
  • the effect is to elevate the lifting end portion 56 and to increase the angle between the compression members 30 and the barge decks
  • tension member 85 can be used in between opposed vertical members 20 as shown in Figures 1 and 2.
  • Padeyes 87, 88 can be welded, for example, to vertical member 20 for forming an attachment between tension member 85 and the vertical column 20.
  • a tension member 86 can be placed in between padeye 87 and sheave 45 as shown in Figure 2.
  • a continuous tensile member is formed in between the heel pin padeyes 25, 26 of barge 11 for each boom 21, and the corresponding heel pin padeyes 25, 26 on barge 12 for each of its booms 22.
  • hook-up is first accomplished.
  • the booms 21, 22 are positioned so that the lifting end portion 56 of each boom 21, 22 is positioned below the corresponding receptacle 70 on package 17.
  • An operator or operators then begin hook-up by attaching the cables 43 and sheaves 44,
  • each boom 21, 22 effects a lifting of the padeyes 17 as the boom 21, 22 angle of inclination relative to the barge 11, 12 deck 13, 14 further increases.
  • the booms 21, 22 are simultaneously elevated and inclined continuously so that each of the booms 21, 22 shares a substantially equal part of the load. This can be monitored using load cell link 89 that can be used to monitor the tension between bridle plates 48 and the pinned connection that joins padeyes 25, 26 and connecting members 35.
  • a second winch W2 can be rigged with a wound line or cable for pivoting each boom 21 ,
  • FIGs 9-12 there can be seen more particularly the construction of movable load spreader platform 24.
  • the plate 27A in Figure 9 is a support plate that sits upon the various perimeter beams 28 and internal beams 29 of movable load spreader platform 24.
  • elongated slots 90 are provided for receiving bolted connections B as shown in Figure 11.
  • Each of the slots receives the upper threaded end portion of a bolt 91 as shown in Figures 9-12.
  • the plate 27A can slide as shown by the arrow 92 in Figure 11. This enables the boom 21 or 22 that is a affixed to connecting members 35 some adjustment in its position with respect to the supporting barge 11 or 12.
  • each bolt 91 can then receive a nut 94 to complete the bolted connection B. It should be understood that during use, it is not necessary that the bolted connections be torqued and/or tightened. This is because the compression loads transmitted from the boom 21 or 22 to the plate 27 A and then to the load spreader platform is sufficient to hold the plate 27A in position not withstanding that the nuts 94 are fully tightened. In fact, during initial connection of the booms 21, 22 to the deck package 17, some adjustability of plate 27A with respect to beams 28, 29 is desirable.

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L'invention concerne un procédé et un appareil pour l'installation ou le retrait d'ensembles plates-formes préfabriqués (17), dans lesquels on utilise généralement deux barges (11, 12) définissant une base (13, 14) pouvant supporter une charge importante de plusieurs tonnes. Un ensemble treillis, de dimension variable, est supporté par la barge et forme une interface de transfert de charge entre cette dernière (13, 14) et l'ensemble plate-forme (17). Chaque longeron (21, 22) présente une partie d'extrémité de levage (56) dotée d'un galet (63) qui s'adapte dans un réceptacle (70) prévu sur l'ensemble préfabriqué. Des raccords de traction forment, plus bas, des fixations entre l'ensemble plate-forme préfabriqué et la barge. Le treillis de dimension variable comprend au moins un élément (42) de longueur variable, dans le mode de réalisation préféré, un câble actionné par un treuil, qui peut être déroulé et enroulé par rotation du treuil (W1) dans le sens d'enroulement ou de déroulement.
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