Subsea wellhead assembly, a subsea installation using said wellhead assembly, and a method for completing a wellhead assembly

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9657525-B2
Application number	US-201114240176-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 23, 2011
Priority date	Aug 23, 2011
Publication date	May 23, 2017
Grant date	May 23, 2017

Abstract

A subsea wellhead assembly comprising at least a casing housing and a casing extending down inside the well, and a tubing hanger. The tubing hanger comprises first and second valves, each valve being a fail safe valve.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A subsea installation comprising at least:
a wellhead assembly placed at a top of a subsea well, the wellhead assembly not comprising a flow control device, said subsea wellhead assembly comprising:
a casing housing secured to the seabed and a casing extending down inside the well;
a tubing hanger having a lower end and an upper end, the lower end being adapted to suspend a tubing that extends down inside the casing and inside the well, a cylindrical space being in continuity inside the tubing and the tubing hanger for extracting an hydrocarbon fluid from the well;
and the tubing hanger comprising at least a first and a second valves located in series inside the cylindrical space, each valve of the first and second valves are fail safe valves having an opened state and a closed state, and each valve being naturally in the closed state and needing to be operated to remain in the opened state;

a manifold comprising a flow control device for transferring the hydrocarbon fluid to a storage system, and
a jumper line connected to said wellhead assembly and to said manifold, said jumper line comprising at a first end a well jumper connector adapted to be locked to the casing housing, said well jumper connector having a weight lower than ten tonnes,
wherein the upper end of the tubing hanger is adapted to be directly and only connected vertically to the well jumper connector of the jumper line.

2. The subsea installation according to claim 1 , wherein jumper line is a flexible line.

3. The subsea installation according to claim 1 , wherein the tubing hanger extends in a direction substantially perpendicular to the seabed, and the upper end of the tubing hanger is adapted to be connected to the jumper line in any angular position around said direction.

4. The subsea installation according to claim 1 , wherein the first and second valves are metal ball valves.

Assignees

• Ray Anthony
• Marcellin Patrick
• Leger Gilles
• Total Sa

Inventors

• Ray Anthony
• Marcellin Patrick
• Leger Gilles

Classifications

• E21B34/04

  in underwater well heads · CPC title

• E21B33/043

  specially adapted for underwater well heads ({E21B33/0407,} E21B33/047 take precedence) · CPC title

• E21B7/12 Primary

  Underwater drilling (using heave compensators E21B19/09) · CPC title

• E21B33/035 Primary

  specially adapted for underwater installations (E21B33/043, E21B33/064, E21B33/076 take precedence) · CPC title