公开(公告)号：US20160090811A1

公开(公告)日：2016-03-31

申请号：US14498085

申请日：2014-09-26

Applicant: Vetco Gray Inc.

Inventor： Mayur Mansukh ,  Aniruddha D. Gadre ,  David Lawrence Ford ,  Baozhi Zhu ,  Robert Du

IPC: E21B33/128 ,  E21B33/03 ,  E21B33/04

CPC classification number: E21B33/128 ,  E21B33/03 ,  E21B33/04 ,  E21B33/0415

Abstract: A wellbore system includes a sealing assembly for creating an annular seal between wellbore members. The sealing assembly includes a wicker profile defined a first sealing surface for engaging and embedding into a radially adjacent, second sealing surface. The wicker profile includes a first section having a first hardness and a second section adjacent to the first section and having a second hardness greater than the first hardness. Both the first and second sections of wickers are embedded into the second sealing surface, and can thus provide a high degree of both sealing and lockdown performance.

Abstract translation: 井眼系统包括用于在井眼构件之间产生环形密封的密封组件。 密封组件包括限定了用于接合和嵌入径向相邻的第二密封表面的第一密封表面的柳条轮廓。 柳条轮廓包括具有第一硬度的第一部分和与第一部分相邻并具有大于第一硬度的第二硬度的第二部分。 第一部分和第二部分的芯片都嵌入第二密封表面，因此可以提供高度的密封和锁定性能。

公开(公告)号：US20150267479A1

公开(公告)日：2015-09-24

申请号：US14218269

申请日：2014-03-18

Applicant: Vetco Gray Inc.

Inventor： Daniel Caleb Benson ,  David Lawrence Ford ,  Stephen David Peters

IPC: E21B17/10 ,  E21B19/06 ,  E21B33/068

CPC classification number: E21B17/1007 ,  E21B33/03 ,  E21B33/068

Abstract: A wear bushing assembly protects and locks down a hanger in a wellhead housing; and which includes a wear bushing body that inserts into a wear bushing sleeve. A lock ring extends into registered recesses on the body and sleeve to couple together the body and sleeve. The wellhead housing has a profiled recess circumscribing its inner surface. A lockdown ring selectively mates with the profiled recess; and when mated is in interfering contact with an upper surface of the wear bushing sleeve, thereby coupling the sleeve to the wellhead housing. The sleeve outer surface is profiled to interfere with upward movement of the hanger, so that force is transferred from the hanger to the housing through the sleeve which locks down the housing.

Abstract translation: 磨损套管组件保护并锁定井口壳体中的衣架; 并且其包括插入耐磨衬套套筒的耐磨衬套主体。 锁环延伸到主体和套筒上的注册凹槽中，以将主体和套筒联接在一起。 井口壳体具有围绕其内表面的成型凹部。 锁定环选择性地与成型凹槽配合; 并且当配合与耐磨衬套套筒的上表面干涉接触时，从而将套筒联接到井口壳体。 套筒外表面被成型以妨碍衣架的向上运动，使得力通过套筒将衣架从衣架传送到外壳，该袖套锁住外壳。

公开(公告)号：US20150114669A1

公开(公告)日：2015-04-30

申请号：US14522010

申请日：2014-10-23

Applicant: Vetco Gray Inc.

Inventor： Mayur Mansukh ,  Aniruddha D. Gadre ,  Joseph William Pallini ,  David Lawrence Ford

IPC: E21B33/04 ,  E21B19/06 ,  E21B33/03

CPC classification number: E21B33/0415 ,  E21B19/06 ,  E21B33/03 ,  E21B33/04 ,  E21B33/0422

Abstract: A retention system for limiting axial and radial movement of a wellbore lock ring. The retention system includes pins for resisting axial movement of the lock ring and assemblies for limiting radial outward movement of the lock ring. The lock ring circumscribes and couples to a wellbore hanger. The pins project radially from the hanger into the lock ring and into slots, where the slots extend a distance along the inner surface of the lock ring. The assemblies also project radially into the hanger and each have a portion that registers with a channel on a lower end of the lock ring. Lock ring outer radial movement is limited by contact between the portions of the assemblies and inner surfaces of the channels.

Abstract translation: 用于限制井眼锁定环的轴向和径向运动的保持系统。 保持系统包括用于抵抗锁定环和组件的轴向运动的销，用于限制锁定环的径向向外运动。 锁环环绕并耦合到井眼衣架。 销从吊架径向突出进入锁环并进入槽，其中槽沿着锁环的内表面延伸一段距离。 组件还径向突出到衣架中，并且每个具有与锁环的下端上的通道对准的部分。 锁定环外径向移动受到组件的各部分和通道的内表面之间的接触的限制。

公开(公告)号：US20150114668A1

公开(公告)日：2015-04-30

申请号：US14496259

申请日：2014-09-25

Applicant: Vetco Gray Inc.

Inventor： Mayur Mansukh ,  Aniruddha D. Gadre ,  Daniel Caleb Benson ,  David Lawrence Ford

IPC: E21B19/00 ,  E21B43/10

CPC classification number: E21B19/00 ,  E21B33/043 ,  E21B43/10

Abstract: A wellhead assembly includes a tubular wellhead housing having a bore and an annular gallery slot. The annular gallery slot is defined by an enlarged inner diameter of the bore. A tubular hanger is selectively landed in the bore of the wellhead housing, defining an annular cavity between the bore and an outer diameter of the tubular hanger. The tubular hanger is supported by the wellhead housing with a hanger support located in the annular cavity. A flow-by passage is in fluid communication with the annular cavity at locations above and below the hanger support. The flow-by passage intersects with the gallery slot and intersects an outer radial surface of the tubular hanger.

Abstract translation: 井口组件包括具有孔和环形槽槽的管状井口壳体。 环形槽槽由孔的扩大内径限定。 管状衣架选择性地降落在井口壳体的孔中，在孔和管状吊架的外径之间限定一个环形空腔。 管状悬挂件由井口壳体支撑，并具有位于环形空腔中的悬挂支架。 流动通道在衣架支撑件上方和下方的位置处与环形空腔流体连通。 流动通道与槽槽相交，并与管状衣架的外径向表面相交。

公开(公告)号：US20140238699A1

公开(公告)日：2014-08-28

申请号：US13774601

申请日：2013-02-22

Applicant: Vetco Gray Inc.

Inventor： Nicholas Peter Gette ,  Daniel Ralph Barnhart ,  David Lawrence Ford

IPC: E21B33/03

CPC classification number: E21B33/03 ,  E21B33/04 ,  E21B2033/005

Abstract: An annular seal for use in a wellhead assembly has inner and outer legs that each extend in a direction that is generally parallel with an axis of the seal to define an annular space therebetween. Wickers are provided on an outer surface of the seal, so that when the seal is energized and the legs are urged radially apart from one another, the wickers engage with a mating surface of a downhole tubular. Embedding the wickers into the tubular creates a flow barrier across the interface between the seal and the tubular. The wickers deform the surface of the tubular, which creates a lock down force that opposes relative axial movement of the tubular.

Abstract translation: 用于井口组件的环形密封件具有内部和外部支腿，每个支撑件在大致平行于密封件的轴线的方向上延伸以限定其间的环形空间。 在密封件的外表面上设置有检验器，使得当密封件通电并且腿被彼此径向分开时，检验器与井下管道的配合表面接合。 将管道嵌入管状物中，在密封件和管状物之间的界面上形成流动屏障。 木杆使管的表面变形，产生与管的相对轴向运动相反的锁定力。

公开(公告)号：US20140183824A1

公开(公告)日：2014-07-03

申请号：US13730306

申请日：2012-12-28

Applicant: VETCO GRAY INC.

Inventor： Daniel Caleb Benson ,  David Lawrence Ford

IPC: E21B33/04 ,  E21B33/128 ,  E21B33/12

CPC classification number: E21B33/04

Abstract: A seal system selectively set between coaxial downhole tubulars seals between the tubulars; the system also locks the tubulars together to resist relative axial movement from thermal expansion. The seal system includes a seal element with a nose ring that couples a lock-down ring to both the inner and outer tubulars. Before inserting the seal system between the tubulars, the lock-down ring is disposed in a groove on the inner tubular. Setting the seal system drives a lower tip of the nose ring between the lock-down ring and inner tubular, thereby urging the lock-down ring radially outward. A portion of the lock-down ring remains in the groove, while an outer radial portion of the lock-down ring inserts into a profile on the outer tubular. Axial movement of a tubular transfers force to the other tubular through the lock-down ring, while a minimal amount of force transfers through the seal system.

Abstract translation: 密封系统选择性地设置在同轴井下管之间密封在管之间; 该系统还将管子锁定在一起以抵抗来自热膨胀的相对轴向移动。 密封系统包括具有鼻环的密封元件，其将锁定环连接到内管和外管两者。 在将密封系统插入管状件之前，锁定环设置在内管上的凹槽中。 设置密封系统驱动锁定环和内管之间的鼻环的下端，从而径向向外推动锁定环。 锁定环的一部分保留在槽中，而锁定环的外部径向部分插入到外部管的轮廓中。 管的轴向运动通过锁定环将力传递到另一个管，而最小量的力通过密封系统传递。

公开(公告)号：US20140125053A1

公开(公告)日：2014-05-08

申请号：US13672443

申请日：2012-11-08

Applicant: Vetco Gray Inc.

Inventor： Jeffrey Allen Raynal ,  Thomas Lowell Steen ,  Nicholas Peter Gette ,  David Lawrence Ford ,  Benjamin Michael Snyder ,  Stephen David Peters ,  Ebony LaShaun Towns ,  Roberto Jose Manzano

IPC: F16L15/08

CPC classification number: F16L15/08 ,  E21B17/043 ,  F16L15/003 ,  Y10T29/49881

Abstract: A broach style anti-rotation device for connected tubular members is described. In embodiments, the broach tool is inserted into a slot in an outer diameter surface of the pin, and teeth of the broach, which have a successively greater height when moving from the front to the tail of the broach, cut a slot in a surface of the box. Sidewalls of the broach and its teeth engage shoulders of each slot to prevent the rotation of the tubular members relative to each other.

Abstract translation: 描述了用于连接的管状构件的拉刀式防旋转装置。 在实施例中，拉刀工具插入销的外径表面中的狭槽中，并且当从拉刀的前部移动到尾部时具有连续更大高度的拉刀的齿切割表面中的狭槽 的盒子。 拉刀及其齿的侧壁与每个槽的肩部接合以防止管状构件相对于彼此旋转。

公开(公告)号：US09695662B2

公开(公告)日：2017-07-04

申请号：US14522010

申请日：2014-10-23

Applicant: Vetco Gray Inc.

Inventor： Mayur Mansukh ,  Aniruddha D. Gadre ,  Joseph William Pallini ,  David Lawrence Ford

IPC: E21B33/04 ,  E21B33/03 ,  E21B19/06

CPC classification number: E21B33/0415 ,  E21B19/06 ,  E21B33/03 ,  E21B33/04 ,  E21B33/0422

Abstract: A retention system for limiting axial and radial movement of a wellbore lock ring. The retention system includes pins for resisting axial movement of the lock ring and assemblies for limiting radial outward movement of the lock ring. The lock ring circumscribes and couples to a wellbore hanger. The pins project radially from the hanger into the lock ring and into slots, where the slots extend a distance along the inner surface of the lock ring. The assemblies also project radially into the hanger and each have a portion that registers with a channel on a lower end of the lock ring. Lock ring outer radial movement is limited by contact between the portions of the assemblies and inner surfaces of the channels.

公开(公告)号：US20160145960A1

公开(公告)日：2016-05-26

申请号：US14551263

申请日：2014-11-24

Applicant: Vetco Gray Inc.

Inventor： Aniruddha D. Gadre ,  Mayur Mansukh ,  David Lawrence Ford

IPC: E21B33/04 ,  E21B17/00

CPC classification number: E21B33/03 ,  E21B33/035 ,  E21B33/04 ,  E21B33/043

Abstract: A wellhead assembly has a casing hanger for supporting a string of casing, the casing hanger having an external upward-facing shoulder. A shoulder ring is mounted on the shoulder. A radially movable annular lockdown member is carried on the shoulder ring for movement between a refracted position while the casing hanger is being run and an expanded position for engaging an interior surface of a wellhead housing. A casing hanger seal is carried by the casing hanger above the lockdown member. The casing hanger seal has a nose on a lower end that engages and moves the lockdown member to the expanded position while the casing hanger seal is being lowered into a set position. The shoulder ring is formed of a material of greater yield strength than the shoulder. Flow channels between the shoulder and the shoulder ring assist in flowing debris from above the shoulder to below.

Abstract translation: 井口组件具有用于支撑套管的套管悬挂器，套管悬挂件具有外部向上的肩部肩部。 肩环安装在肩上。 径向可移动的环形锁定构件被承载在肩环上，用于在套管悬挂器运行期间在折射位置之间运动，以及用于接合井口壳体的内表面的展开位置。 套管衣架密封件由锁定件上方的套管架承载。 套管衣架密封件在下端具有鼻部，其接合并将锁定件移动到展开位置，同时套管衣架密封件被降低到设定位置。 肩环由比肩部屈服强度大的材料形成。 肩部和肩环之间的流动通道有助于将碎屑从肩膀上方流到下面。

公开(公告)号：US09175537B2

公开(公告)日：2015-11-03

申请号：US13644914

申请日：2012-10-04

Applicant: Vetco Gray Inc.

Inventor： Nicholas Peter Gette ,  David Lawrence Ford ,  Michael Benjamin Snyder

IPC: E21B33/03 ,  E21B33/038 ,  E21B33/04

CPC classification number: E21B33/03 ,  E21B33/038 ,  E21B33/04

Abstract: A wellhead seal assembly that forms a metal-to-metal seal between inner and outer wellhead members. A seal member has inner and outer seal legs separated by a slot. A locking ring is positioned in the outer seal leg and has wickered sections, where each of the wickered sections protrude through a window in the outer seal leg of the seal member. An energizing ring has an upper tapered surface that is oblique to an axis of the annular energizing ring and extending laterally from the axis over a portion of the locking ring and a lower tapered surface that is oblique to and extending laterally from the axis. As the energizing ring is moved into the slot, the upper tapered surface engages an inner surface of the locking ring, and the lower tapered surface engages an inner annular wall of the slot.

Abstract translation: 井口密封组件，其在内部和外部井口构件之间形成金属对金属密封。 密封件具有由槽分隔的内密封腿和外密封腿。 锁定环位于外部密封腿中，并且具有检测部分，其中每个检测部分突出穿过密封部件的外部密封腿中的窗口。 激励环具有与环形激励环的轴线倾斜并且从锁定环的一部分上的轴线横向延伸的上锥形表面以及从轴线倾斜并从轴向侧向延伸的下锥形表面。 当激励环移动到槽中时，上锥形表面接合锁定环的内表面，并且下锥形表面接合槽的内环形壁。