Hughes Tool Company LLC

Malcolm B Roach

John Lindley Baugh

James W Montgomery

Richard A Van Wormer

Charles Ledet

An equipment insert is shown for use within a section of well pipe. The equipment insert is installed within the pipe bore at the well surface. The equipment insert is run into the bore of the well pipe and manipulated with a hand tool to actuate gripping slips and a seal ring to grip the pipe interior bore and to form a seal with the interior bore of the section of well pipe. The section of well pipe containing the equipment insert can then be made up in the well pipe string, and the well pipe string can be run into the well bore for conducting well bore operations.

Equipment insert and method

Disclosed are apparatus and method of closing a conduit against fluid flow in at least one longitudinal sense, and selectively disengaging and reengaging the closure mechanism without removing the closure mechanism from the conduit. In a particular embodiment, a valve assembly may be selectively anchored and sealed to a well packer, or disengaged therefrom. The valve assembly is manipulated by an operating tool to which the valve assembly is anchored in the well when the valve assembly is disengaged from the packer.

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Houston, TX, United States of America

Malcolm B Roach