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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2011
Chad Eric Yates, Houston, TX (US);
David L. Ford, Houston, TX (US);
Daniel Caleb Benson, Spring, TX (US);
Chad Eric Yates, Houston, TX (US);
David L. Ford, Houston, TX (US);
Daniel Caleb Benson, Spring, TX (US);
Vetco Gray Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A seal seals an annulus in a subsea assembly between a wellhead and a casing hanger landed on a shoulder within a bore of the wellhead. The seal includes a casing hanger seal ring disposed within the annulus. The seal ring engaged with an inner diameter surface of the wellhead, and engaged with an outer diameter surface of the casing hanger so that the seal ring prevents flow through the annulus. A nose ring is secured to a lower end of the seal ring so that, when the seal ring is energized, a conical surface of the nose ring engages a mating conical profile formed in the inner diameter surface portion of the wellhead and the nose ring engages a surface opposite the conical surface with a substantially smooth outer diameter surface portion of the casing hanger to limit upwards axial movement of the casing hanger.