Patents by Inventor Eric Verger
Eric Verger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 12345368Abstract: A metal tubular component adapted to be associated with at least one other metal tubular component to form a joint, said metal tubular component having a longitudinal axis, a body and at least one first axial end adjacent to the body, said first axial end being provided with a connector including a thread and an internal abutment surface, the metal tubular component further including a wall with an internal surface, said internal surface being coated with a layer of a thermally-insulating material, said layer of thermally-insulating material being covered by a liner, said liner having an axial portion extending along the longitudinal axis and a radial portion, said radial portion extending along the internal abutment surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2022Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Eric Verger, Gabriel Roussie
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Publication number: 20250137329Abstract: Threaded joint including a male end having a male thread and a free male end, a female end having a female thread and a free female end, said female end also including at least one extension extending axially from the side of the female thread and forming the free female end, said at least one extension being flexible radially and including on an internal surface an extension shoulder arranged to cooperate with a locking surface extending from an external surface of the male end and to limit axially in one direction the relative movement of the male end relative to the female end.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2023Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Pierre MARTIN, Eric VERGER
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Publication number: 20240410514Abstract: A metal tubular component adapted to be associated with at least one other metal tubular component to form a joint, said metal tubular component having a longitudinal axis, a body and at least one first axial end adjacent to the body, said first axial end being provided with a connector including a thread and an internal abutment surface, the metal tubular component further including a wall with an internal surface, said internal surface being coated with a layer of a thermally-insulating material, said layer of thermally-insulating material being covered by a liner, said liner having an axial portion extending along the longitudinal axis and a radial portion, said radial portion extending along the internal abutment surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2022Publication date: December 12, 2024Applicant: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Eric VERGER, Gabriel ROUSSIE
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Patent number: 12066130Abstract: Threaded joint, comprising a first and a second tubular component (C1, C2), the first tubular component comprising a first pipe body (10) and a male end (1), the male end comprising a distal surface (17) and a male threaded zone (13) at a male end, the second tubular component comprising a second pipe body (20) and a female end (2) comprising a distal surface and a female threaded zone (23), both male and female threaded zones (13, 23) comprising respectively a varying zone where thread have varying width, and a non varying zone, adjacent to the varying zone, where thread have a constant width, the varying zone of the male threaded zone being made up with the varying zone of the female threaded zone, and non varying zone of the male threaded zone being made up with the non varying zone of the female threaded zone, a thread profile of the male and female threaded zones being trapezoidal and a pin external shoulder (37) of the male end is in axial abutting contact against a corresponding abutment surface (42) oType: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Justin Ju, Justin Perkins, Eric Verger
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Publication number: 20230147500Abstract: A steel pipe is for drilling, exploiting hydrocarbon wells, transporting petrol and gas, carbon capture or geothermal energy. The steel pipe includes at least one male or female insert and a metal body. The insert includes at least a first thread axis, at least one toric or frusto-conical sealing surface, a threaded portion and a non-threaded portion connected to the metal body. The metal body is made entirely by additive manufacturing and the insert includes an anchoring profile arranged so as to adhere the additive material of the metal body.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2021Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventor: Eric VERGER
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Publication number: 20230027183Abstract: Threaded joint, comprising a first and a second tubular component (C1, C2), the first tubular component comprising a first pipe body (10) and a male end (1), the male end comprising a distal surface (17) and a male threaded zone (13) at a male end, the second tubular component comprising a second pipe body (20) and a female end (2) comprising a distal surface and a female threaded zone (23), both male and female threaded zones (13, 23) comprising respectively a varying zone where thread have varying width, and a non varying zone, adjacent to the varying zone, where thread have a constant width, the varying zone of the male threaded zone being made up with the varying zone of the female threaded zone, and non varying zone of the male threaded zone being made up with the non varying zone of the female threaded zone, a thread profile of the male and female threaded zones being trapezoidal and a pin external shoulder (37) of the male end is in axial abutting contact against a corresponding abutment surface (42) oType: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: January 26, 2023Applicants: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Justin JU, Justin PERKINS, Eric VERGER
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Publication number: 20230010471Abstract: A male or female tubular threaded connection for a steel pipe includes at least one external or internal threading, an end lip, a portion produced by additive manufacturing arranged to house at least one sensor at a predetermined distance from a functional surface of said connection, the sensor being arranged to measure a physical quantity related to said functional surface and said functional surface being selected from a sealing surface, a threading, an abutment, an internal diameter or an external diameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2020Publication date: January 12, 2023Applicant: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventor: Eric VERGER
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Publication number: 20220381380Abstract: A tubular threaded joint for drilling, operating hydrocarbon wells, or transporting oil and gas includes a male tubular threaded element and a female tubular threaded element. The female tubular threaded element includes a female internal threaded portion and a female non-threaded portion. The male tubular threaded element includes a male external threaded portion and a male non-threaded portion. At least the male or female tubular element includes a body and a portion added by additive manufacturing that includes at least one first abutment surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2020Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventor: Eric VERGER
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Publication number: 20220243845Abstract: A tubular threaded joint for the drilling, the exploitation of hydrocarbon wells or the transport of oil and gas includes a male tubular element and a female tubular element. The female tubular element includes a female inner threaded portion and a female non-threaded portion. The male tubular element includes a male outer threaded portion and a male non-threaded portion. The male or female tubular element includes a body and an added portion by additive manufacturing that includes at least one first abutment surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2020Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventor: Eric VERGER
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Patent number: 10519724Abstract: A threaded connection includes first and second tubular components, each including a respective male and female end. The male and female ends each include at least one threaded zone and finish in a terminal surface. The male threaded zone includes a first portion in which a width of teeth, CWTp, increases from a value CWTpmin corresponding to a width of a tooth closest to the terminal surface of the male end to a value CWTpmax corresponding to a width of a tooth furthest from the terminal surface. A width of teeth CWTb of the female threaded zone decreases from a value CWTbmax corresponding to a width of a tooth furthest from the terminal surface of the female end to a value CWTbmin corresponding to a width of a tooth closest to the terminal surface. The threaded zones cooperate in accordance with a self-locking make-up, with CWTpmin/CWTbmax?0.2 and CWTbmin/CWTpmax?CWTpmin/CWTbmax.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2009Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL CORPORATIONInventors: Pierre Martin, Eric Verger
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Patent number: 10227831Abstract: A threaded connection for drilling or working hydrocarbon wells includes first and second tubular components with an axis of revolution, each including respective male and female ends. At least one of the male or female ends finishes in a terminal surface including a first abutment surface that can come into interfering contact when the connection is made against a second abutment surface provided on a shoulder produced on an opposing tubular component male or female end. At least one of the first and second abutment surfaces is hollowed out by a groove, defining an exterior abutment zone and an interior abutment zone. In the connection made state, the exterior and interior abutment zones are not coplanar, such that contact pressure of the interior abutment zone exerted in a vicinity of the groove is greater than or equal to a minimum value for contact pressure exerted in the exterior abutment zone.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: TUBOSCOPE VETCO (FRANCE) SASInventors: Scott Granger, Olivier Caron, Eric Verger, Gabriel Roussie, Jonathan Franchi
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Patent number: 9863560Abstract: An expandable threaded connection includes: first and second tubular components including respective male and female ends including respective first and second and third and fourth threaded zones, insertion regions, first and second annular tongues, prominent abutment faces, and first and second concavities; the first and second tongues are respectively engaged in the second and first concavities in a made up condition, the abutment face of at least one tongue in contact with at least one concavity; the male end including a first surface between the first threaded zone and the first tongue, and the female end including a second surface between the third threaded zone and the second concavity; in the made up condition, the first and second surfaces define an annular space include large and small radial dimension zones which, after expansion, can form a metal-metal contact seal, the first tongue bearing on the second tongue.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2011Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Jérôme Durivault, Anne-Sophie Bureau-Bayart, Eric Verger
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Patent number: 9822591Abstract: A tubular component for a threaded connection includes at one of its ends a threaded zone. The end includes a terminal surface and the threaded zone includes, over at least a portion, threads including, when viewed in a longitudinal section passing through an axis of the tubular component, a thread crest, a thread root, a load flank, and a stabbing flank, such that a respective axial width of thread crests decreases in a direction of the terminal surface while a respective axial width of thread roots increases when considered in the same direction. At least one of a profile of the load flank and a profile of the stabbing flank of a thread portion includes, as a contral portion, a continuous curve provided with a point of inflection such that the profile with the point of inflection in convex at the thread crest and concave close to the thread root.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2010Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, SUMITOMO METAL INDUSTRIES, LTD.Inventors: Scott Granger, Olivier Caron, Eric Verger
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Patent number: 9605781Abstract: A threaded tubular connection includes a female threaded portion at a first tubular component end and a male threaded portion at a second tubular component end, the female threaded portion including a female thread, at least one female sealing surface on its inner peripheral surface, and at least one female axial abutment surface, the male threaded portion including a male thread, at least one male sealing surface on its outer peripheral surface, at least one axial abutment surface, and a lip disposed between the sealing surface and an axial abutment surface located at a free end of the threaded portion distant from the thread, the male thread being made up into the female thread such that at least one male axial abutment surface is in contact with at least one female axial abutment surface, at least one male sealing surface being in interference contact with at least one corresponding female sealing surface, the portion of the lip between the sealing surface and the axial abutment surface being radially distType: GrantFiled: November 3, 2008Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignees: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCE, NIPPON STEEL & SUMITOMO METAL CORPORATIONInventors: Sylvain Beigneux, Daly Daly, Bertrand Maillon, Claire Patureau, Eric Verger, Michihiko Iwamoto, Keiichi Nakamura, Masaaki Sugino, Suguru Yamaguchi
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Patent number: 9470344Abstract: A component used for drilling and operating hydrocarbon wells which is substantially tubular in form, and including a first end configured to be connected to a second end of another component also used for drilling and operating hydrocarbon wells. The first end includes a terminal portion including a first abutment surface configured to cooperate by interference with a corresponding abutment surface on the second end, and including a sealing surface configured to cooperate by interference with a corresponding sealing surface on the second end, the terminal portion being preceded by a threaded zone configured to be made up into a corresponding threaded zone of the second end. A compressible volume is provided in the thickness of the first terminal portion and partially beneath the sealing surface, to reduce radial stiffness of the terminal portion by at least 20%, while conserving at least 60% of axial stiffness.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2009Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Eric Verger, Yann Gallois
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Patent number: 8925975Abstract: A threaded connection includes first and second tubular components each with an axis of revolution. The first component including a male threaded end, the second component including a female threaded end, and both the male and female threaded ends finishing in a terminal surface. The threaded zones include, over a portion defined as in a self-locking make-up, threads, which before the self-locking make-up and when viewed in a longitudinal section passing through the axis of revolution of the first and second components, each include: a thread crest, a thread root, a load flank, and a stabbing flank. A width of the thread crests of each component reducing in a direction of the terminal surface of the component under consideration, while a width of the thread roots increases. A lead of the male stabbing flanks and/or load flanks is different from a lead of the female stabbing flanks and/or load flanks.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2010Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignees: Vallourec Oil and Gas France, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Scott Granger, Olivier Caron, Eric Verger
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Publication number: 20140327242Abstract: An assembly for producing a threaded connection for drilling or working hydrocarbon wells, the connection including first and second tubular components with an axis of revolution, each including respective male and female ends, at least one of the male or female ends finishing in a terminal surface including a first abutment surface that can come into interfering contact when connection is made against a second abutment surface provided on a shoulder produced on the other end, at least one of the first and second abutment surfaces being hollowed out by a groove, thereby defining an exterior abutment zone and an interior abutment zone. In the connection made state, the exterior and interior abutment zones are not coplanar, such that contact pressure of the interior abutment zone exerted in vicinity of the groove is greater than or equal to a minimum value for contact pressure exerted in the exterior abutment zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: November 6, 2014Applicant: VALLOUREC OIL AND GAS FRANCEInventors: Scott Granger, Olivier Caron, Eric Verger, Gabriel Roussie, Jonathan Franchi
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Patent number: 8827322Abstract: A set for manufacturing a threaded connection, including first and second tubular components with an axis of revolution, one of their ends including a threaded zone formed on the external or internal peripheral surface of the component depending on whether the threaded end is of male or female type, the ends finishing in a terminal surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2010Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignees: Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd., Vallourec Oil and Gas FranceInventors: Scott Granger, Olivier Caron, Eric Verger
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Publication number: 20120325361Abstract: An expandable threaded connection includes: first and second tubular components including respective male and female ends including respective first and second and third and fourth threaded zones, insertion regions, first and second annular tongues, prominent abutment faces, and first and second concavities; the first and second tongues are respectively engaged in the second and first concavities in a made up condition, the abutment face of at least one tongue in contact with at least one concavity; the male end including a first surface between the first threaded zone and the first tongue, and the female end including a second surface between the third threaded zone and the second concavity; in the made up condition, the first and second surfaces define an annular space include large and small radial dimension zones which, after expansion, can form a metal-metal contact seal, the first tongue bearing on the second tongue.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2011Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: VALLOUREC MANNESMANN OIL & GAS FRANCEInventors: Jérôme Durivault, Anne-Sophie Bureau-Bayart, Eric Verger
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Patent number: 8220844Abstract: A threaded element of a component includes at least first and second threading portions each including threads each including a stabbing flank and a loading flank. The stabbing flanks and loading flanks of the threads of the first threading portion and the threads of the second threading portion are inclined in an opposed manner with respect to the radial direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2008Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignees: Vallourec Mannesmann Oil & Gas France, Sumitomo Metal Industries, LtdInventors: Laurent Gillot, Eric Verger, Olivier Tartar