Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Hydrocarbon well completion system and method of completing a hydrocarbon well
- Patent Title (中): 油气井完井系统及完成烃井的方法
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Application No.: US13099302Application Date: 2011-05-02
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Publication No.: US08573328B1Publication Date: 2013-11-05
- Inventor: Edward Leonardo Ganzinotti, II , Edward Leonardo Ganzinotti, III , Brent Phillip Shanley , Matthew Anthony Couchot
- Applicant: Edward Leonardo Ganzinotti, II , Edward Leonardo Ganzinotti, III , Brent Phillip Shanley , Matthew Anthony Couchot
- Applicant Address: US CA Bakersfield
- Assignee: Cameron West Coast Inc.
- Current Assignee: Cameron West Coast Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Bakersfield
- Agency: Klein, DeNatale, Goldner
- Agent James M. Duncan, Esq.
- Main IPC: E21B7/20
- IPC: E21B7/20

Abstract:
The present apparatus and method of use allows a blow out preventer to be installed as a unit with a section of casing, and does not require the blow out preventer to be removed as subsequent strings of casing are installed, thus efficiently utilizing drilling rig time. The present invention further allows a casing string to be landed and cemented in place, and then the drilling rig may move off the location, without a permanent wellhead housing attached to the well. The primary apparatus utilized in the invention is a tubular connector which suspends a string of casing during cementing, and which receives a casing plug for sealing the well when drilling operations have been completed. When completion operations commence, a permanent wellhead housing is attached to the tubular connector utilizing a unique metal to metal seal.
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