Sumitomo Metal Industries, Inc.

Vallourec & Mannesmann Oil & Gas France

Benoit Le Chevalier

Masaaki Sugino

Eric Verger

Michihiko Iwamoto

Miyuki Yamamoto

Takahiro Hamamoto

Katsutoshi Sumitani

Jean-Francois Charvet-Quemin

A tubular threaded joint which has excellent resistance to compression and which permits easy tightening operation in the field in a vertical state comprises a pin having a male threaded zone and a box having a female threaded zone. The pin or the box has an end shoulder surface on its end, and the other member has a shoulder surface which abuts against the end shoulder surface. The screw threads of the male threaded zone and the female threaded zone are trapezoidal threads having a crest, a load flank, and a stabbing flank. The lip length, which is the distance in the axial direction of a member having an end shoulder surface between the end shoulder surface and the closest engaged thread to that surface, is at least 140 times the stabbing flank clearance, which is the distance in the axial direction between the stabbing flanks of the male thread and the female thread when the load flanks of the male and female threads contact each other. The stabbing flank of the male thread is preferably chamfered.

Tubular threaded joint

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Noyelles sur Sambre, France

Benoit Le Chevalier