transpool

To transfer a flexible pipeline from the manufacturer's spool to shipboard equipment ready for deployment.

Verb

  1. To transfer a flexible pipeline from the manufacturer's spool to shipboard equipment ready for deployment.
    • The flexible risers were transpooled and installed using CDI's state-of-the-art rigid/flexible laying carousel and tower. - 2002, Hart's E&P. - Volume 75, page 69:
  2. To transfer from one spool to another.
    • It was stored statically in non-environmentally controlled conditions, moved/rotated, pressurized/depressurized and transpooled to another reel and back. - 1998, Proceedings - Offshore Technology Conference - Volume 4,...
    • The modification concerned the reel mechanism inside the magazine: it uses a free-floating storage reel which fills up part of the same space which the take-up reel would with a film transpooled. - 1972, Camera - Volume...

Origin

From tran- + spool.

Forms

transpools transpooling transpooled