Jfe Steel Corporation

Haruhiko Seki

Masaki Yoshikawa

Jun Takano

Takamasa Kawai

Takuya Nagahama

Masateru Ueta

Tsuyoshi Yoneyama

Hideo Sato

Kazunari Takahashi

Hiroshi Chikatsune

Taro Kanayama

A screw joint in which an efficient screw length of a joint portion is achieved. This screw joint is for an oil well pipe of an integral type and includes: (i) a pin that is provided with a male screw portion which is a male taper screw, at one end of a steel pipe; and (ii) a box that is provided with a female screw portion which is a female taper screw fitted to the male screw portion, at one end of the steel pipe, in which a structure, in which the pin and the box are in metal contact with each other to seal a fluid, is provided at least at one place of a seal portion on an outer peripheral surface side of a pipe end side of the pin and a seal portion on an inner peripheral surface side of a pipe end side of the box.

Screw joint for oil well pipe

Provided is a threaded joint for an oil well tubing which possesses sufficient sealability when the external pressure is applied to the threaded joint by suppressing the plastic deformation of a nose portion and sufficient galling resistance. The sufficient galling resistance is provided by preventing the occurrence of galling at the time of making up the threaded joint during verification test performed in accordance with ISO13679:2002 even when the threaded joint for an oil well tubing has a small thickness. Parameters including sizes of the threaded joint at positions of a seal point and shoulder portions satisfy formula 1 ((Ds1&#x2212;Ds0)/(D1&#x2212;D0)&#x2265;0.30), formula 2 (tan &#x3b8;&#x3e;(&#x394;D+&#x3b4;)/{2(Lt&#x2212;Ls)}), and Ls/Ln is set to 0.2 to 0.6.

Threaded joint for oil well tubing

In a joint for oil country tubular goods, a pitch change is made such that an internally-thread pitch has the same value as an externally-thread pitch from a thread end portion on a box end side to a pitch change position taken on a box center side with respect to a position away from the thread end portion by &#xbd; of an entire length of the threaded portion, and the internally-thread pitch is changed to a value less than the externally-thread pitch at the pitch change position so that a thread gap is gradually decreased from the pitch change position to a position of the thread end portion on the box center side, and the thread gap is eventually set to a value which is 0.2 to 0.8 times as large as the thread gap before the pitch change is made.

Threaded joint for oil country tubular goods

A premium threaded joint has a pin-side shoulder angle &#x3b8;1, a box-side shoulder angle &#x3b8;2, a seal interference quantity &#x3b4; and a seal point distance xp satisfying &#x3b8;2&#x2212;&#x3b8;1=&#x3b1;&#xd7;&#x3b4;/xp, &#x3b1;=7 to 14, and a pin distal end thickness tp1 defined by a difference Re&#x2212;Ri between a radius Re of a pin most distal end portion and an inner radius Ri of a pin distal end portion is 0.25 times or more as large as a pin raw pipe thickness tp0.

A threaded joint for heavy-walled oil country tubular goods can both ensure sealability and prevent galling in a state where a high external pressure is also applied to the threaded joint in addition to a high compressive force. A surface of a pin side forming a seal portion and a surface of a box side forming a seal portion are formed into a convex curved surface and a tapered surface, respectively. A seal thickness tof the pin is 15 mm or less, a shape parameter t/D (D: outer diameter of a pin raw pipe portion) is 0.045 or more, and a complete thread length ratio L/t (L: complete thread length of the pin, t: wall thickness of the pin raw pipe portion) is 4.0 or less.

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Tokyo, Japan

Haruhiko Seki