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From a historic point of view, as jackup (/Jackups) drilling vessels drilled in deeper water (/Deepwater_drilling), the need to transfer the weight of the well to the seabed and provide a disconnect-and-reconnect capability became clearly beneficial. This series of hangers, called mudline suspension equipment, provides landing rings and shoulders to transfer the weight of each casing string to the conductor and the sea bed.
Contents
1 Mudline hanger system 1.1 Mudline hangers 2 Temporarily abandoning the well 3 Reconnecting to the well 4 References 5 See also 6 Noteworthy papers in OnePetro 7 External links
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Fig. 1Illustration of a typical mudline suspension system showing running tools on the left side and tieback tools on the right side.
Mudline hanger running tools Temporary abandonment caps and running tool Tieback tools Cleanout tools.
Mudline hangers
Each mudline hanger landing shoulder and landing ring centralizes the hanger body, and establishes concentricity around the center line of the well. Concentricity is important when tying the well back to the surface. In addition, each hanger body stacks down relative to the previously installed hanger for washout efficiency. Washout efficiency is necessary to clean the annulus area of the previously run mudline hanger and running tool (Fig. 2). This ensures that cement and debris cannot hinder disconnect and retrieval of each casing riser to the rig floor upon abandonment of the well.
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Fig. 2All mudline hangers should stack down to provide washout efficiency. Washout efficiency is supplied by a series of wash ports located in the running tool that (when opened for washing out) are positioned below the running tool attached to the previously run mudline hanger.
As each hole section is drilled and each casing string (/Casing_and_tubing#Casing_strings) and mudline hanger is run, the hanger is positioned in the casing string to land on a landing shoulder inside the mudline hanger that was installed with the previous casing string. Each of the mudline hangers have casing and a mudline hanger running tool made up to it. These running tools are released through right-hand rotation to allow disconnect from the well. The threads on the mudline hanger used by the running tool can be used to install temporary abandonment caps (Fig. 3) into selected hangers to temporarily suspend drilling operations at the conclusion of the well.
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Fig. 3Illustration of a mudline suspension system with temporary abandonment caps installed after the well is drilled.
The main difference between the wellheads used in the land drilling application and the jackup drilling application (with mudline) is the slip-and-seal assembly (Fig. 4). Because the weight of the well now sits at the seabed, a weight-set slipand-seal assembly is not used. Instead, a mechanical set (energizing the seal by hand) is used, in which cap screws are made up with a wrench against an upper compression plate on the slip-and-seal assembly to energize the elastomeric seal.
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Fig. 4Illustration of a mechanical-set slip-andseal assembly.
stab-in temporary abandonment caps (both of which makeup into the threaded running profile of the mudline hanger; see Fig. 3) are installed in selected mudline hangers before the drilling vessel finishes and leaves the location. The temporary abandonment caps can be retrieved with the same tool that installed them.
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Fig. 5Illustration of a mudline suspension system with threaded tieback tools installed (left) and stab-in tieback tools installed (right) in each hanger body.
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