Patent ID: 6880640

Claim:
A subsea assembly for transferring fluids between subsea structures, comprising: a subsea tree assembly located on the seafloor having a tree stab plate mounted to the subsea tree; a tree end parking receptacle mounted to the tree assembly adjacent the tree stab plate; an umbilical end parking receptacle mounted to the tree assembly adjacent the tree end parking receptacle; an umbilical extending from a vessel on the ocean surface towards the seafloor and having an umbilical terminal head spaced from the subsea tree, the umbilical terminal head having an umbilical stab plate; a bundle of a plurality of metal tubular members each having an umbilical end connector and a tree end connector; wherein the bundle has a parked position wherein the tree end connector of the bundle stabs into the tree end parking receptacle and the umbilical end connector stabs into the umbilical end parking receptacle; and wherein the bundle has a length which allows the bundle to be flexed into an operational position having the tree end connector stabbed into the tree stab plate and the umbilical end connector stabbed into the umbilical stab plate.