Metal to metal vee seal
AssigneePatriot Research Center, LLC
InventorsBrandon Cain, Craig Cotton
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Abstract
A system to provide at least two circumferential metal to metal seals between coaxial tubulars. Where a first tubular includes a circumferential shoulder having a circumferential first metal seal and a circumferential second metal seal. A second tubular has a circumferential shoulder that matches and abuts the first tubular circumferential shoulder. Each metal seal is of a material having a higher yield strength than the second tubular shoulder such that the first metal seal and the second metal seal will penetrate the material of the second tubular shoulder thereby providing a seal. Additionally a test port is provided from the exterior of the exterior tubular to a point on either the first or second tubular between the first and second metal seals.
Claims6
A metal-metal seal comprising;
- a first tubing hanger having a circumferential frustroconical first shoulder,
- a second tubing hanger having a circumferential frustroconical second shoulder,
- wherein the second tubing hanger circumferential frustroconical second shoulder is adjacent to and in opposition to the first tubing hanger circumferential first shoulder,
- the first tubing hanger circumferential frustroconical first shoulder having a first circumferential protrusion and a radially offset second circumferential protrusion, and
- wherein the first circumferential protrusion or the second circumferential protrusion is a material having a higher yield strength than the circumferential second shoulder such that the first circumferential protrusion or the second circumferential protrusion penetrates the second tubing hanger circumferential frustroconical shoulder as the first circumferential protrusion or the second circumferential protrusion are brought into contact with the second tubing hanger circumferential frustroconical shoulder.
A metal-metal seal comprising;
- a first tubing hanger having a circumferential frustroconical first shoulder,
- a second tubing hanger having a circumferential frustroconical second shoulder,
- wherein the circumferential second shoulder is adjacent to and in opposition to the first tubing hanger circumferential frustroconical first shoulder,
- the first tubing hanger circumferential frustroconical first shoulder having a first circumferential protrusion and a radially offset second circumferential protrusion,
- the first tubing hanger further providing a fluid pathway from an exterior of the first tubing hanger to a circumferentially open area bounded by the first tubing hanger circumferential frustroconical first shoulder, the second tubing hanger circumferential frustroconical second shoulder, the first tubing hanger circumferential first protrusion, and the second tubing hanger circumferential second protrusion, and
- wherein the first circumferential protrusion or the second circumferential protrusion is a material having a higher yield strength than the circumferential second shoulder such that the first circumferential protrusion or the second circumferential protrusion penetrates the second tubing hanger circumferential frustroconical shoulder as the first circumferential protrusion or the second circumferential protrusion are brought into contact with the second tubing hanger circumferential frustroconical shoulder.
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