US 12,241,568 B2
Cable protection system
Elisabeth Gjolmesli, Oslo (NO); Rayhan Habibie, Halden (NO); and Per Kristian Pedersen, Oslo (NO)
Assigned to NEXANS, Courbevoie (FR)
Filed by NEXANS, Courbevoie (FR)
Filed on May 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/749,036.
Claims priority of application No. 21305701 (EP), filed on May 27, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0407301 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. F16L 1/24 (2006.01); H02G 9/02 (2006.01)
CPC F16L 1/24 (2013.01) [H02G 9/025 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A cable or umbilical with a cable protection system for stabilising a submarine power cable or umbilical in a free span between an offshore installation and the seabed, said cable protection system comprising:
weighted elements arrangeable around a section of the power cable or umbilical in the free span,
wherein a weight/diameter ratio of the cable or umbilical and cable protection system combined in a section of the free span is greater than a weight/diameter ratio of the cable or umbilical alone in the section of the free span, wherein the free span is a space between the seabed and an offshore installation in which space the cable/umbilical is suspended without any support from the seabed.