Abstract: An improved gate valve having a body with horizontal inlet and outlet fluid flow passageways with first and a second seat surrounding the passageways, a stem supported in a vertical plane by the body, a gate positioned between the seats and being vertically displaceable by the stem between an upper valve open position and a downward valve closed position, the gate being formed by a first and a second segment, each segment having an internal face inclined at an angle to a vertical plane and an outer planar sealing face, the outer sealing faces being paralleled to each other, each segment having in a lower portion an opening therethrough, the openings in the segments being aligned with the body fluid flow passageways when the gate is in the upper, open position and out of alignment with the fluid flow passageways when the gate is in the lower, closed position.

Abstract: A full bore tubing hanger system for supporting a tubing string in a wellhead includes a hanger body positioned on the wellhead and having a vertical opening therethrough defined by a plurality of spaced apart circumferential enlarged internal diameter support recesses, each support recess providing a lower circumferential radial ledge surface and an upper frusto-conically shaped surface. A tubular tubing hanger is removably positionable within the hanger body vertical opening and has threads at the lower end thereof by which tubing is attached to it. A segmented cage is positioned on the external surface of the tubing hanger and slidable between a lower and an upper position, in the lower position the segmented cage is retracted with respect to the external surface of the tubing hanger. The segmented cage has spaced apart external circumferential support surfaces that, when the tubing hanger is downwardly positioned, engage the hanger body support recesses so that the tubing hanger is supported by the cage.

Abstract: An installable load shoulder is used with a wellhead to support a tubing hanger by which tubing is suspended in a well bore, "tubing" being inclusive of any tubular product such as a string of tubing or casing as used in drilling and completing oil or gas wells, the wellhead having a vertical opening therethrough and in the wall defining the opening an internal circumferential groove, the groove having an inwardly sloped bottom frusto-conical circumferential surface and the tubing hanger having an external circumferential surface dimensioned to be slidably received in the wellhead vertical opening and having an external circumferential area defined in part by a frusto-conical circumferential surface. The load shoulder is of toroidal shape, has a split therein, has an internal circumferential surface defined in part by an inwardly sloped upper frusto-conical shaped surface and an external circumferential surface defined in part by a lower outwardly sloped frusto-conical shaped surface.

Abstract: A system for connecting wellhead components that are abutted in axial alignment in which each component has an increased external diameter circumferential hub portion at an end thereof, the system including a toroidal connector surrounding adjacently positioned hub portions, a plurality of C-segments retained by the toroidal connector and positioning bolts received in spaced apart threaded opening in the connector, each bolt having an inner end in engagement with a C-segment and an outer end extending radially of and exteriorly of the connector by which each C-segment may be inwardly radially advanced to engage opposed sides of the hubs.