Patents Assigned to Vallourec Oil and Gas France
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Publication number: 20240229985Abstract: A threaded connection comprising: a first tubular component (1) having a first male threaded portion (16) and a second male threaded portion (17), a root width in the first male threaded portion (16) decreasing in a direction oriented a first pipe body (3), the root width being constant in the second male threaded portion (17), the second tubular component (2) comprising a female threaded zone (10) having a first female threaded portion (19) with a root width decreasing in a direction oriented towards a second pipe body (5), the connection being partially made up in a self-locking arrangement in order to provide a locking region (18) and a non-locking region (20), a female distal thread (22) of the locking region (18) has a width such that FDTW/TH>=125%, in which FDTW is a tooth width of the female distal thread (22) of the locking region and TH is the tooth height of said female distal thread (22).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2022Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicants: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Thimothé DELBOSCO, Wesley OTT, Scott GRANGER
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Publication number: 20240209695Abstract: A connection device includes a first tubular element, a second tubular element, and a coupling sleeve in order to connect the first tubular element and the second tubular element. A first male portion of the first tubular element includes a free end which has an annular sealing lip. The sealing lip covers an outer sealing surface of the second tubular element. The sealing lip has an outer periphery on which an outer thread is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2022Publication date: June 27, 2024Applicants: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Ryunosuke HAYAKAWA, Sébastien VILLERT
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Patent number: 12018777Abstract: A high-torque threaded connection with male and female threadforms constituted by wedge threads is provided with high shear resistance and high torque resistance. The radius of curvature r1 of the base of the load flank of the first thread 111, located at the end of the male threadform 11 associated with the tip, is not lower than the thread height Th×0.14, and more preferably not lower than Th×0.16, to improve the shear resistance of the first thread 111. Further, the thread pitch may be reduced to increase the number of threads to increase the area of contact for load flanks, or only the radius of curvature of the base of the load flank of the first thread located at the end of the male threadform associated with the tip may be increased and smaller radii of curvature may be provided for the other portions to increase the area of contact for load flanks, thereby maintaining high torque resistance.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Akira Wada, Yousuke Oku, Yohinori Ando
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Patent number: 12007045Abstract: In a threaded connection for pipe with a two-step thread construction, including intermediate shoulders, during stabbing, the internal-pressure sealing surface of the pin near its tip is prevented from contacting the intermediate shoulder of the box and thus receiving damage. LP, LB, hP and hB shown in FIG. 2 satisfy Expressions (1) and (2), provided below. ?seal is the angle of slope of the straight line connecting the two ends, as determined along the axial direction, of the internal-pressure sealing surface of the pin. Expression (3), provided below, is also satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Satoshi Maruta, Yousuke Oku
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Patent number: 12000750Abstract: A method for coupling a first tubular component including a threaded portion with a second tubular component including a threaded portion, which includes: engaging the first tubular component on the second tubular component; rotating the first tubular component relative to the second tubular component in order to screw the threaded portions together; obtaining a set of points constituting a curve that represents the torque applied during the screwing of the first tubular component until an end position as a function of the number of turns performed by the first tubular component relative to the second tubular component; comparing parameters of the curve obtained with one or more reference curve(s) of a database in which each reference curve is associated with an assessment of the quality of the coupling; and assessing the quality of the coupling according to the step of comparing the curve.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Celine Sches, Denis Bourlart
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Patent number: 11987765Abstract: The composition according to the present disclosure is a composition for forming a lubricant coating layer on or above a threaded connection for pipes, and contains polyisobutylene, a metal soap, a wax and a basic metal salt of an aromatic organic acid. The threaded connection for pipes according to the present disclosure includes: a pin having a pin-side contact surface which includes a pin-side threaded portion; a box having a box-side contact surface which includes a box-side threaded portion; and a lubricant coating layer formed from the aforementioned composition as an outermost layer on or above at least one of the pin-side contact surface and the box-side contact surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2019Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Kunio Goto, Tomoka Abe
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Publication number: 20240159113Abstract: A tubular threaded joint for the drilling, operation of hydrocarbon wells, transport of oil and gas, carbon capture or geothermal energy, comprising a male tubular element and a female tubular element, each of said male or female tubular elements comprising respectively a male threaded portion and a female threaded portion, one or the other of the male or female threaded portions optionally comprising an anticorrosive and/or lubricating solid coating, said male threaded portion and female threaded portion comprise respectively at least one male threading tooth or one female threading tooth and a threaded axial gap TAG ensuring a space, in the mounted state, between an stab flank of said male threading tooth and a load flank of said female threading tooth, wherein said threaded axial gap TAG is greater than or equal to a minimum gap TAGmin.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicants: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Thibault MATHON, Laurent BOUFFLERS, Matthieu LUONGO
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Patent number: 11970911Abstract: A device for a steel tube designed to be secured on a portion of the tube used in a tubular hydrocarbon column includes a substantially cylindrical envelope extending along a longitudinal axis and designed to surround the box portion of the first steel tube and the envelope forming an opened ring so that a circumferential gap subsists between two free ends of the envelope; and a locking mechanism fixed to the envelope in the vicinity of the circumferential gap and configured to bring the free ends of the envelope closer to each other in a locked position.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2020Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Alastair John Brodie, Maxime Vannetzel
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Patent number: 11946572Abstract: A threaded tubular connection comprises a first tubular (12) component and a second tubular component (14). The first tubular component (12) includes a female portion (10) defined on an interior surface of the first tubular component. The female portion includes an inner threaded portion (16d) and an outer threaded portion (16b) which are offset radially with respect to a longitudinal axis of the first tubular component by a first shoulder (26). The second tubular component (14) includes a male portion (18) defined on an exterior surface of the second tubular component. The male portion is to be inserted into the female portion, and includes an inner threaded portion (18d) and an outer threaded portion (18b) which are offset radially with respect to a longitudinal axis of the second tubular component by a second shoulder (28). The second shoulder is to abut the first shoulder once the male portion is connected to the female portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Alan Fothergill, Corey Dufrene, Satoshi Maruta
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Patent number: 11933431Abstract: A threaded connection for pipes includes a pin, a box, a shoulder part plating layer, and a non-shoulder part plating layer. The shoulder part plating layer has an outermost layer formed of a high friction coefficient plating layer, and is arranged on a pin side shoulder part and/or a box side shoulder part. The non-shoulder part plating layer has an outermost layer formed of a low friction coefficient plating layer having a coefficient of friction lower than a coefficient of friction of the high friction coefficient plating layer, and the non-shoulder part plating layer is arranged on at least one of a pin side thread part, a pin side metal seal part, a box side thread part, and a box side metal seal part.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Kazuya Ishii, Kunio Goto, Masaaki Sugino, Yousuke Oku
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Patent number: 11920703Abstract: A threaded connection for pipes according to the present embodiment includes a pin, a box, and a Zn—Ni alloy plating layer. The pin has a pin contact surface that includes an external thread part. The box has a box contact surface that includes an internal thread part. The Zn—Ni alloy plating layer is disposed on or above at least one of the pin contact surface and the box contact surface. The Zn—Ni alloy plating layer contains graphite.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Kazuya Ishii, Kunio Goto
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Patent number: 11905766Abstract: A threaded tubular connection includes a box member having a female external thread, a female internal thread, and a female intermediate sealing surface between the female external thread and the female internal thread, and a pin member having a corresponding male external thread, a male internal thread, and a male intermediate sealing surface, such that male threads interlock by thread engagement with female threads, and intermediate sealing surfaces form an intermediate metal-to-metal seal when the threaded tubular connection is made up. The box member includes a minimal outer diameter at the intermediate metal-to-metal seal location, the minimal outer diameter being smaller than respectively an external and an internal outer diameter respectively being located above the female external thread and the female internal thread.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Anthony Foulogne, Pierre Martin
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Patent number: 11892106Abstract: A threaded connection for steel pipe is provided in which galling does not easily occur on any of the inner and outer threads. A threaded connection for steel pipe 1 includes a pin 10 and a box 20. The pin 10 includes: a nose 12; a tapered inner male thread 14; a tapered outer male thread 17; a pin inner sealing surface 13; a pin intermediate shoulder surface 18; and a pin intermediate sealing surface 16. The box 20 includes: a tapered inner female thread 24; a tapered outer female thread 27; a box inner sealing surface 23; a box intermediate shoulder surface 28; and a box intermediate sealing surface 26. Each of the inner male thread 14, outer male thread 17, inner female thread 24 and outer female thread 27 includes a perfect thread portion 141, 171, 241, 271. Each perfect thread portion includes an inner end located relatively close to the tip of the pin 10 and an outer end located relatively close to the end of the pin 10 opposite to its tip.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Keita Inose, Hikari Nakano, Masaaki Sugino
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Patent number: 11885443Abstract: Threaded tubular connection for the casing of hydrocarbon wells obtained by makeup of a male tool joint with a female tool joint, the connection comprising a threaded portion, such that the male and respectively female threaded portions each comprise a helix provided with a load flank, a thread crest, a stabbing flank, a thread root, such that a pitch of the load flank (LFLp, LFLb) and a pitch of the stabbing flank (SFLp, SFLb) fulfills the following condition: [Math 14] SFLb=LFLb=SFLp=LFLp=k, A tooth width (Wtp) of the male helix and a tooth width of the female helix (Wtb) are such that [Math 15] 50%<Wtp/Wtb<80% or [Math 16] 50%<Wtb/Wtp<80% and [Math 17] Wtp Wtb<k.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Anthony Foulogne, Pierre Martin
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Publication number: 20230408003Abstract: A metal tubular connecting part includes a total axial length, an inner surface, and an outer surface. The inner and outer surfaces delimit a wall, an outer transition surface, and an inner transition surface. The outer transition surface and the inner transition surface delimit a transition thickness of the wall. A first threaded end is defined by a first outer surface portion extending over a first axial length. A second threaded end is defined by a second inner surface portion extending over a second axial length. The sum of the first axial length and the second axial length is less than or equal to the total axial length of the connecting part.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Bertrand MAILLON, Alexandre NOEL, Thierry TAISNE, Umberto CARUSO
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Publication number: 20230400126Abstract: A flush self-locking threaded connection partially in a non-locking engagement comprises a first and a second tubular component provided respectively with male and female threaded zone at their respective ends. First portions of the male and female threaded zones with varying thread width and root cooperate along a self-locking tightening arrangement. A locking region within the threaded connection is located in the middle of non-locking regions, and radially centered to the pipe body API tolerances in order to withstand high torque and seal performances.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicants: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Wesley OTT, Logan VAN GORP, Scott GRANGER
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Patent number: 11840895Abstract: A threaded connection partially in a self-locking arrangement includes a first and a second tubular component provided respectively with male and female threaded zone at their respective ends. Only a portion of a first portion with varying thread width of the male threaded zone cooperates by self-locking tightening with only a portion of the second portion with varying thread width of the female threaded zone when made up one into the other. The connection is able to withstand high torques required for special applications such as drilling with casing or intermediate casing.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2018Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Steve Langford, Wesley Ott
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Patent number: 11828390Abstract: Threaded tubular connection comprising a tubular female end extending from a main body of a first tubular member, and a tubular male end extending from a main body of a second tubular member, such that the tubular female end comprises a machined outer cylindrical surface close to the female free end having a first outer diameter and a second machined outer cylindrical surface above a threaded portion of the female end, a second outer diameter of the second outer cylindrical surface being bigger than the first outer diameter.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Benoit Briane, Alan Fothergill, Anthony Foulogne, Pierre Martin
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Patent number: 11828391Abstract: In a threaded connection of a two-step thread construction including intermediate shoulder surfaces, a break is prevented near the intermediate critical cross sections upon application of a tensile load, and the intermediate shoulder surfaces are easier to create, thus improving productivity. The outer periphery portion of a pin located between an intermediate shoulder surface of the pin and a second male thread is provided with a circumferential groove including a curved surface smoothly contiguous to the intermediate shoulder surface, thereby mitigating plastic strains generated near the pin intermediate critical cross section PICCS. The inner periphery portion of a box located between an intermediate shoulder surface of the box and a first female thread is provided with a circumferential groove including a curved surface smoothly contiguous to the intermediate shoulder surface, thereby mitigating plastic strains generated near a box intermediate critical cross section BICCS.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Yousuke Oku, Satoshi Maruta, Masaaki Sugino, Alan Fothergill
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Patent number: 11774014Abstract: A disclosed threaded connection for steel pipes includes a pin and a box. The pin includes, in order from a front end of the pin toward a pipe body of the pin, an annular shoulder surface, an annular sealing surface located adjacent to the shoulder surface, and a male thread part. The box includes, in order from a pipe body of the box toward a front end of the box, an annular shoulder surface, an annular sealing surface located adjacent to the shoulder surface, and a female thread part. The pin shoulder surface and the box shoulder surface incline from a plane perpendicular to a pipe axis in a direction of screwing the pin. A diameter of an inner circumferential edge of the pin shoulder surface is smaller than a diameter of an inner circumferential edge of the box shoulder surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Keita Inose, Hikari Nakano, Masaaki Sugino