Patents Assigned to Vallourec Oil and Gas France
  • Patent number: 11970911
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Alastair John Brodie, Maxime Vannetzel
  • Patent number: 11946572
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alan Fothergill, Corey Dufrene, Satoshi Maruta
  • Patent number: 11933431
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Kazuya Ishii, Kunio Goto, Masaaki Sugino, Yousuke Oku
  • Patent number: 11920703
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Kazuya Ishii, Kunio Goto
  • Patent number: 11905766
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anthony Foulogne, Pierre Martin
  • Patent number: 11892106
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Keita Inose, Hikari Nakano, Masaaki Sugino
  • Patent number: 11885443
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Anthony Foulogne, Pierre Martin
  • Publication number: 20230408003
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Bertrand MAILLON, Alexandre NOEL, Thierry TAISNE, Umberto CARUSO
  • Publication number: 20230400126
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicants: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wesley OTT, Logan VAN GORP, Scott GRANGER
  • Patent number: 11840895
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Steve Langford, Wesley Ott
  • Patent number: 11828390
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Benoit Briane, Alan Fothergill, Anthony Foulogne, Pierre Martin
  • Patent number: 11828391
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Yousuke Oku, Satoshi Maruta, Masaaki Sugino, Alan Fothergill
  • Patent number: 11774014
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Keita Inose, Hikari Nakano, Masaaki Sugino
  • Publication number: 20230304360
    Abstract: Securing system intended to secure a cable to a tube for a tubular column for oil & gas, energy, or storage applications, said securing system comprising: a bearing surface and an outside surface, the bearing surface being turned inwardly, said bearing surface defining an inside housing for the tube, the outside surface being turned outward relative to the bearing surface, a tube fixing mechanism having an open state and a closed state, the tube fixing mechanism being configured to fix the securing system on the tube in the closed state of the tube fixing mechanism, the tube being housed in the inside housing in said closed state of the tube fixing mechanism, said tube fixing mechanism being mobile relative to the tube in an open state of the tube fixing mechanism; said tube fixing mechanism comprises a band, the band extending along a longitudinal axis, the band extending radially, the band extending around the tube, said band forming the bearing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Alastair John BRODIE, Maxime VANNETZEL
  • Publication number: 20230295990
    Abstract: A securing system intended to secure a cable to a tube for a tubular column for oil & gas, energy, or storage applications, the securing system includes a first ring configured to bear against the tube, a second ring configured to bear against the tube, and a central body arranged and blocked in relative displacement along a longitudinal axis between the first ring and the second ring. The securing system includes a cable securing mechanism having an outside housing for securing the cable, said outside housing having an opening for receiving through said opening the cable in the outside housing, said opening of the outside housing being arranged on an outside surface of the securing system, said outside surface being turned outwardly relative to an inside housing of the securing system, said inside housing being configured to house the tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Maxime VANNETZEL, Alastair John BRODIE
  • Patent number: 11753878
    Abstract: A two-step threaded connection for steel pipe includes an intermediate seal and intermediate shoulders. A pin 2 has an inner male-threaded section 23 and an outer male-threaded section 26. A box 3 has an inner female-threaded section 33 and an outer female-threaded section 36. The pin 2 has a pin intermediate critical cross section PICCS located near an end of the first male-threaded section 23. The box 3 has a box critical cross section BCCS located near an end of the inner female-threaded section 33 and a box intermediate critical cross section BICCS located near an end of the outer female-threaded section 36. The pin 2 and the box 3 satisfy the following relationships: PICCSA+BICCSA>BCCSA, and 0.70?PICCSA/BICCSA?0.95.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Keita Inose, Masaaki Sugino, Shin Ugai, Hikari Nakano
  • Patent number: 11753877
    Abstract: A threaded tubular connection includes 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 male end includes a first machined inner surface close to the male free end and a second machined inner cylindrical surface above a threaded portion of the male end such that a second inner diameter of the second machined inner cylindrical surface is smaller than a first inner diameter of the first machined inner surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Benoit Briane, Alan Fothergill, Satoshi Maruta, Yosuke Oku
  • Publication number: 20230280146
    Abstract: This internal inspection device is for determining a length and inner diameter of a tubular good. The internal inspection device includes a first positioning sensor, a second positioning sensor spaced axially from the first positioning sensor, a displacement sensor the displacement of the internal inspection device inside the tubular good between two positions sensed by the respective positioning sensors, the internal inspection device further including a electronic arranged to computing the length of the tubular good by adding a distance measured by the displacement sensor and a predetermined length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Lucas KLING E SILVA, Sébastien PETIT, Alastair BRODIE, Nicolas WILBERT, Nestor MEDEIROS
  • Publication number: 20230258293
    Abstract: This drifting device for a tubular good includes a body, a means of propelling the body through the tubular good, and at least one attachment part for attaching a cylindrical drift mandrel to the body, wherein the attachment part is so configured to enable a degree of mobility of the cylindrical drift mandrel with respect to the body along a radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Applicant: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Lucas KLING E SILVA, Sébastien PETIT, Alastair BRODIE, Nicolas WILBERT, Nestor MEDEIROS
  • Patent number: 11719365
    Abstract: A threaded connection for large diameter steel pipe exhibits high torque resistance and high sealability and, at the same time, provides a shear resistance that suits the size of the steel pipe to be connected. The threaded connection includes a tubular pin provided on a tip of a steel pipe with large diameter, and a tubular box 20 adapted to be drawn up on the pin as the pin is screwed in. The pin includes a male threadform made with a taper thread. The box includes a female threadform made with a taper thread. Each of the threadforms are wedge threads and have a dovetail-shaped cross section. The male threadform is designed such that the width of the thread in an end region of the male threadform closer to the tip is set to a size corresponding to the size of the pipe body of the steel pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignees: NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION, VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE
    Inventors: Yousuke Oku, Sadao Douchi