Tubular component comprising a threaded connection element
AssigneeVallourec Oil and Gas France
InventorEric Verger
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Abstract
A tubular component for a tubular threaded joint, said tubular component including a main body and a threaded connection element, said threaded connection element extending axially from the main body to a free end of the tubular component, the threaded connection element having a helical thread, the tubular component including a metal portion and a composite material portion, and the metal portion forms the free end of the tubular component, the helical thread including a first threaded portion and a second threaded portion, the metal portion including the first threaded portion, the composite material portion including the second threaded portion, the composite material portion being in radial contact with the metal portion in line with the second threaded portion.
Claims10
A tubular component for a tubular threaded joint, comprising:
- a main body;
- a threaded connection element, said threaded connection element extending axially from the main body to a free end of the tubular component, the threaded connection element including a helical thread;
- a metal portion;
- and
- a composite material portion,
- wherein the metal portion forms the free end of the tubular component,
- wherein the helical thread includes a first threaded portion and a second threaded portion,
- wherein the metal portion includes the first threaded portion,
- wherein the composite material portion includes the second threaded portion, and
- wherein the composite material portion is in radial contact with the metal portion in line with the second threaded portion, and
- wherein the metal portion has a decreasing radial thickness from a junction between the first threaded portion and the second threaded portion and axially away from the free end of the tubular component.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.