Abstract: Methods and apparatus for connecting a tubular to a tubular string are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus suitable for engaging, compensating, and connecting a tubular includes one or more compensating pistons, an engaging assembly for engaging a tubular, and a connector for connecting the engaging assembly to the one or more compensating pistons while allowing for rotation of the tubular relative to the compensation pistons.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for connecting a tubular to a tubular string are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus suitable for engaging, compensating, and connecting a tubular includes one or more compensating pistons, an engaging assembly for engaging a tubular, and a connector for connecting the engaging assembly to the one or more compensating pistons while allowing for rotation of the tubular relative to the compensation pistons.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for connecting a tubular to a tubular string are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus suitable for engaging, compensating, and connecting a tubular includes one or more compensating pistons, an engaging assembly for engaging a tubular, and a connector for connecting the engaging assembly to the one or more compensating pistons while allowing for rotation of the tubular relative to the compensation pistons.

Abstract: A new elevator for use in wellbore operations has been invented which, in certain aspects, has a first body part, a second body part, the body parts together defining a interior opening through the elevator for accommodating a wellbore tubular therein, first hinge apparatus hingedly connecting the two body parts together and permitting the two body parts to be hingedly openable on a first side of the elevator, and second hinge apparatus disposed across from the first hinge apparatus, the second hinge apparatus hingedly connecting the two body parts together and permitting the two body parts to be hingedly openable on a second side of the elevator. In certain aspects such an elevator has at least one roller secured to an interior of at least one of the body parts to facilitate movement of a wellbore tubular with respect to the elevator, and inparticular aspects has a plurality of spaced apart rollers. In one such elevator the plurality of rollers is one or more rollers on each body part.

Abstract: A new joint compensator and systems with it and methods of their use have been invented which, in one aspect, includes a compensator system for compensating for the weight of at least one joint, which is a wellbore tubular member, the compensating system for use below a wellbore apparatus, the wellbore apparatus for supporting the at least one joint, the compensation system having a joint compensator suspended below the wellbore apparatus and connected thereto for selectively compensating for the weight of the at least one joint, a lower elevator suspended below and interconnected with the joint compensator for releasably holding the at least one joint, and a wellbore elevator connected to the wellbore apparatus for selectively supporting the joint compensator and the at least one joint.