A subsea installation including an unbonded flexile pipe for subsea transportation of a H.sub.2S and/or CO.sub.2 containing fluid. The unbonded flexible pipe includes from inside and out, a pressure sheath defining a bore for transportation of the fluid, a tensile armor and a liquid impervious outer sheath, wherein the tensile armor is of corrosion resistant material(s) and the tensile armor includes at least two cross wound layers of elongate armor elements, which are wound with a long pith and wherein the pipe further includes an anti-bird cage layer including at least one elongate element wound with a short pitch onto at least one of the tensile armor layers, and wherein the at least one elongate element includes or consist of steel, titanium and/or fibers of carbon, basalt, polyethylene, PVDF (polyvinylidene fluoride or polyvinylidene difluoride) PEEK (polyether ether ketone) PVC (polyvinyl chloride), LCP (liquid crystalline polymer) or any combinations thereof.

A method of making a flexible pipe layer, which method comprises: commingling polymer filaments and carbon fibre filaments to form an intimate mixture, forming yarns of the commingled filaments, forming the yarns into a tape, and applying the tape to a pipe body to form a flexible pipe layer.

A method of manufacturing an armour layer of a flexible pipe for transporting fluid from a subsea location and apparatus are provided. The method comprises winding a first length of composite tape to form a first section of the armour layer and positioning an end region of the first length of composite tape over an end region of a second length of composite tape to form an overlapping tape section. Heat and pressure is applied to the overlapping tape section to form a joined overlapping tape section in which the first length of tape is joined to the second length of tape such that the joined overlapping tape section has a lap shear strength of at least 11 MPa. The joined overlapping tape section and the second length of composite tape are wound to form a second section of the armour layer.

A flexible conduit for transporting a fluid in a submarine environment, suitable for being inspected by an ultrasonic control method for detecting the presence of water in the annular space.

A method of making a flexible pipe layer, which method comprises: commingling polymer filaments and carbon fibre filaments to form an intimate mixture, forming yarns of the commingled filaments, forming the yarns into a tape, and applying the tape to a pipe body to form a flexible pipe layer.

Apparatus and methods for terminating an end of flexible pipe body are disclosed, the apparatus comprising an elongate end fitting body, associated with a central longitudinal axis, comprising a connector flange region securable in a back-to-back relationship to a further end fitting body and disposed at a first end of the elongate end fitting body, an open mouth at a remaining end of the end fitting body, a central flange region disposed between the first end and the remaining end and a neck region between the central flange and the connector flange, wherein the neck region comprises a radially inner end fitting neck region portion and a radially outer end fitting neck region portion that is spaced apart from and is radially outside the radially inner end fitting neck region portion to provide an enclosed chamber region therebetween.

A hydrogen-filling hose includes reinforcing layers provided coaxially layered between an inner surface layer and an outer surface layer that are coaxially layered. The inner surface layer is formed of a thermoplastic resin and has a gas permeation coefficient of dry hydrogen gas, of 1×10.sup.−8 cc⋅cm/cm.sup.2⋅sec.⋅cmHg or less at 90° C. A flow path formed by the inner surface layer has a diameter of 10 mm or more and 25 mm or less. The reinforcing layers includes four layers or more and eight layers or less, and each of the reinforcing layers has a spiral structure that is formed by spirally winding a metal wire material. Pricking holes extending through the outer surface layer in a thickness direction are dispersedly provided therein.

Pipe body for an unbonded reinforced thermoplastic pipe (uRTP), the pipe body including a fluid retaining liner, an intermediate layer located radially outwardly of the fluid retaining liner, and a protective sheath located radially outwardly of the intermediate layer. The pipe body includes an end portion for terminating the pipe body at an end fitting. At the end portion, the intermediate layer is bonded to the fluid retaining liner. Away from the end portion, the intermediate layer remains unbonded to the fluid retaining liner.

A method and system for easily predicting a remaining lifetime of a hose are provided. A hose remaining lifetime prediction method and a hose remaining lifetime prediction system, for predicting a remaining lifetime of a hose 1 in use, include obtaining in advance, for a hose of the same type, relationship between use time of an inner tubular rubber layer 11 at a reference temperature and a physical property value of rubber forming the inner tubular rubber layer 11, generating a thermal degradation model for the inner tubular rubber layer 11, calculating, for the hose 1 in use, reference temperature use time being use time of the inner tubular rubber layer 11 at the reference temperature until a time of the prediction, and predicting the remaining lifetime of the hose 1 in use, based on comparison between the reference temperature use time and the thermal degradation model.

The present disclosure is directed to thermoplastic polymer blends. The blends can include a first thermoplastic polyurethane and a second thermoplastic polyurethane, wherein the blend includes from 10 wt % to 50 wt % of the second thermoplastic polyurethane based on a total weight of the thermoplastic polymer blend. The first thermoplastic polyurethane can include a reaction product of a first reaction mixture consisting of or consisting essentially of an aliphatic diisocyanate and an aliphatic isocyanate-reactive component. The second thermoplastic polyurethane can include a reaction product of a second reaction mixture including a polyisocyanate, an isocyanate-reactive component having a number average molecular weight of from 500 g/mol to 10,000 g/mol, and a chain extender having a number average molecular weight of from 60 g/mol to 450 g/mol.