Patent ID: 7645094

Claim:
A method for deploying piping comprising: providing a plurality of deployment vehicles, each deployment vehicle carrying a predetermined length of piping; starting all of said plurality of deployment vehicles at relatively the same departure point; sending each of said plurality of deployment vehicles from said departure point to a different piping lay start point associated with said deployment vehicle, each deployment vehicle departing said departure point relatively simultaneously; having each vehicle from said plurality of deployment vehicles begin laying said piping carried by the deployment vehicle when the deployment vehicle reaches said deployment vehicle's assigned piping lay start point without stopping at the start point regardless of the position or progress of the other deployment vehicles of said plurality of deployment vehicles; continuing to lay said piping along a predefined path until said each of the plurality of deployment vehicles reaches a start point of another of the plurality of deployment vehicles, said each of the plurality of deployment vehicles having laid an amount of piping prior to reaching said start point of another of the plurality of deployment vehicles; and connecting said piping of said each of the plurality of deployment vehicles to the piping of said another of each of said plurality of deployment vehicles independent of the laying progress of another of the plurality of deployment vehicles.