Hydraulic and earth engineering – Subterranean or submarine pipe or cable laying – retrieving,... – Submerging – raising – or manipulating line of pipe or cable...
Patent
1989-07-20
1991-05-07
Taylor, Dennis L.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Subterranean or submarine pipe or cable laying, retrieving,...
Submerging, raising, or manipulating line of pipe or cable...
285104, 285109, 285140, 285343, 166348, F16L 112
Patent
active
050131877
ABSTRACT:
The invention relates to a method and apparatus suitable for example in enabling the installation of a casing hanger within a bore in an oil-drilling wellhead in a manner so that the installation and the sealing-in of the casing hanger is accomplished in a single operation. The invention thus comprises installing a component (2) within a bore (4) so as to be received therewithin in a fluid-type manner utilizing expandible seals (8) and a shoulder (36) within the bore (4) adapted to be contacted by a leading edge (32) of one of two concentrically arranged sleeve members (12, 14) which are driven downwardly within the bore towards the shoulder, the two sleeve members which encircle the component (2) being secured together by shearable links (25). The movement of one (12) of the sleeve members towards the shoulder (36) is arrested by its abutment against the shoulder, but the driving force continues to be applied to the second sleeve member (14) so as to shear the shearable link (25) and permit further movement of second member (14), so as to vertically compress and thus expand the seals (8) radially and ensure a fluid-tight seal between the component (2) and the inner surface of the bore (4).
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Close Frank
MacIntyre Brian
McAvoy Sean
Conley Ned L.
Cooper Industries Inc.
McBee J. Russell
Rose David A.
Taylor Dennis L.
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