laybargen.
/ˈleɪbɑːdʒ/ Oil Industry.
A specialized barge used for laying underwater pipelines, such as those used in the oil and gas industries; a pipe-laying barge.
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1956 Pipe Line Industry Dec. 20/1 Submarine pipe lines of the future may be given a quick, ‘one-course’, application of a combination weight-and-protective coating—applied continuously aboard the lay barge, in an on-line application.
1966 Pipes & Pipelines Internat. July 30/2 These measured stresses could be fed to a computerised controller on the laybarge to indicate quickly which corrective action should be taken to ensure proper laying of the pipeline.
1975 Offshore Progress—Technol. & Costs (Shell Briefing Service) 15 Huge semi-submersible laybarges have been built to permit continuous pipelaying operations, even in bad weather.
1985 A. C. Palmer in R. F. de la Mare Adv. Offshore Oil & Gas Pipeline Technol. vii. 87 If the pipeline is constructed by the laybarge method,..the pipe joints are loaded onto supply vessels and shipped to the barge, where they are unloaded by cranes onto racks.
1992 Marine Engineers Rev. Nov. 57/1 The deepwater section of the line was installed by laybarge DLB-423.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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