摘要 |
The invention relates to a bed-to-surface connector installation (fig 1) comprising: - a rigid "riser" pipe (9), fixed at the lower end thereof to an anchoring device (4,5,6) on the sea bed, a flexible connector pipe (10) providing the connection between a floating support (12) and the upper end of said vertical riser (9), one end of said flexible pipe (10) being directly attached, preferably by a system of flanges (11), at the upper end of said riser (11), a terminal pipe element (8) at the lower end of the riser (9) forming an inertia transition part of said riser, a terminal part of the flexible pipe (10), on the side of the junction thereof at the upper end of said riser with a positive flotation, said terminal part of the flexible pipe (10) with a positive flotation extending over a part of the total length of the flexible pipe such that the flexible pipe has an S shape. |