Patent ID: 7344338
Filing Date: 2008-03-18
Classification: F16L

Abstract:
1. A pipeline ballast for a longitudinally-extending pipeline comprising: a first pair of side sacks being flexibly connected longitudinally therebetween and having a top and a bottom; a second pair of side sacks being flexibly connected longitudinally therebetween and having a top and a bottom; aggregate ballast material for filling the first and second pair of side sacks, the filled first and second pairs of side sacks being deformable; a flexible connector extending between the top of the first pair of side sacks and the top of the second pair of side sacks and adapted to extend over a top of the pipeline with first and second pairs of side sacks adapted to straddle the pipeline; and one or more circumferential cinches adapted for extending about the first and second pairs of side sacks for compressing the first and second pairs of side sacks radially inwardly to the pipeline.