PRESSURE TM

Certified System Components

Subsea Wellheads
For deep and shallow water applications
 Pre-engineered subsea wellheads from Cameron: fewer trips, lower costs
and better sealing in shallow or deep water drilling operations.
For more than seventy-five
years, the leader
Cameron’s experience in pressure control
can be traced back to 1922. The introduc-
tion of the first BOP that became an indus-
try standard began an unequaled history
of innovation. Type “A” casing hanger,
All-Welded Body Ball Valve, first subsea
wellhead completion, the legendary U BOP,
first hydraulic production controls system,
first guidelineless drilling system, first free-
standing riser system — these are just a
few familiar milestones along Cameron’s
path of leadership.
This leadership continues today
with such innovations as the SpoolTree™
Christmas tree and the MOSAIC™ (Modular
Subsea and Integrated Completions)
Production System.
More advances are on the horizon.
As the industry pushes into new frontiers,
we’ll be there, as always, with the
technology to do it right.
1962: The industry’s first subsea
wellhead completion is a Cameron
Christmas tree in the Gulf of Mexico.
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The Cameron family of STM™ and STC™
subsea wellheads delivers the economic
benefits of modularity and the perfor-
mance benefits of advanced design.
These benefits mean faster delivery,
easier installation and reduced costs in
nearly every subsea drilling application.
And that is especially important for
today’s deepwater challenges.
With modularity at the component
level, there are no performance trade-
offs. Cameron subsea wellheads contain
technology found nowhere else and
reflect the depth of our pressure control
experience. The STM wellhead, for
example, demonstrates our no-compro-
Cameron’s most advanced, field proven pressure-control technology is
pre-engineered into the STM wellhead.
Three connection
options (mandrel,
hub and DWHC)
Angled shoulder
prevents debris
accumulation
Interchangeable
parallel bore metal
seal assemblies on
13-3/8”, 10-3/4"
(or 9-5/8”) and
7-5/8” (or 7")
casing hangers
mise design approach with parallel bore
metal seals, better connection options
with BOPs and Christmas trees and
interchangeable components.
A selection of running tools (including
the unique CHSART tool - see page 7)
and ancillary equipment is also part of
the highest performing subsea wellhead
systems in the world’s offshore oilfields.
Single Trip Metal Seal Subsea
Wellhead System
The STM wellhead reduces drilling costs
by eliminating unnecessary trips while
providing the most advanced pressure
control technology, at any depth, in any
High pressure
18-3/4” housing
Optional passively
activated, preloaded
lockdown
High strength
landing shoulder
on 18-3/4” housing
Optional 16” casing
hanger available for
six-string programs
(see page 5)
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environment. Central to STM wellhead
performance is Cameron’s parallel bore
metal (PBM) seal technology, completely
different from competing tapered bore
designs and far superior.
The STM wellhead is perfect for most
subsea drilling and production applica-
tions with working pressures up to
15,000 psi WP, on single wells, multi-
well templates or TLP operations.
Versions of the STM are available for
shallow or deep water, and it is adapt-
able to casing programs with five or six
strings. Only four tools are required to
run a five-string STM system.
Three BOP and Christmas tree
connection profiles. Depending on
your requirements, choose from a hub,
mandrel or Cameron’s new deepwater,
high-capacity (DWHC) profile on the
high-pressure 18-3/4" housing. Cameron
is offering the DWHC profile to the petro-
leum industry without charge, to pro-
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Hub Mandrel DWHC
mote standardization among deepwater
producers and equipment suppliers.
High-pressure 18-3/4” housing. Rated
up to 15,000 psi WP, Cameron’s high-
pressure housing provides a parallel
bore sealing surface design for the PBM
casing hanger seals. The high-pressure
housing will accommodate an optional
16" casing hanger and seal assembly.
Because the receptacle for the hanger
and seal is welded to the bottom of the
housing or anywhere in the 20" string,
Modular Subsea And Integrated Completion systems:
The MOSAIC concept
MOSAIC is the result of a design philoso- are modular at the component level,
phy that eliminates the usual tradeoffs you standardized to work together in many
expect with a pre-engineered, modular combinations. The result is a cost-effective
system. With MOSAIC systems, you gain system that can be adapted to virtually any
simplified installation procedures, reduced subsea job. The MOSAIC system is more
personnel training easily expanded as
and faster delivery. field development
Unlike ordinary systems, you don’t have needs evolve, and its components contain
to give up flexibility, expandability and the technology that provides the perfor-
desirable product features and benefits. mance you need.
The ordinary approach to modularity Cameron’s subsea wellheads are
is fixed assemblies run progressively to an integral part of the MOSAIC system.
large structures, which are not appropriate They’re the perfect fit for today’s subsea
for many applications. MOSAIC systems economics.
it does not add to wellhead height. The
receptacle does not restrict a 17-1/2" bit
or full-bore running equipment.
This housing has a high-strength
landing shoulder rated to 7 million lbs.
The simple, passive design allows the
13-3/8" casing hanger to be reciprocated
inside the 18-3/4" housing without the
possibility of inadvertent setting. It is
fully rated for H2S service.
The STM design allows all BOP
tests to be performed with the wear
bushings in place, saving a round trip
for each test.
STM wellhead undergoes seal development
testing at Cameron’s new, state-of-the-art
Research Center in Houston. This 55,000 sq ft
resource allows us to develop and test product
improvements more quickly. In the photo at
right, the STM is shown in one of our two
25 ft deep, underwater simulation tanks.
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 Advanced lockdown and sealing technology
A closer look at Cameron engineering
reveals advanced but practical technol-
ogy that works in the real world. A
remarkable history of pressure-control
experience has been pre-engineered into
our subsea wellheads. You can see our
no-compromise design in these features:
Three STM wellhead-to-conductor
housing lockdown options
Passively activated, preloaded
lockdown. This locks the high-pressure,
18-3/4" housing to the 30" conductor
with twelve vertical pre-load segments,
in a collet finger design. This pre-loaded
lockdown offers superior fatigue resis-
tance. When locked down, bending and
axial loads are transferred from the BOP
stack to the conductor. Fatigue loading
of the 20" casing is eliminated.
Lockdown is achieved without a sepa-
rate trip, and the mechanism can be
fully recoverable and reusable. Eight,
two-inch diameter bypass holes provide
for cement returns.
Passively activated,
standard lockdown.
An outwardly biased,
split-metal ring is held
in position with a
keeper ring. The split
ring is compressed by
the inside diameter of
the 30” conductor
housing until it is
landed in a retainer
groove.
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High-capacity lockdown. Cameron’s
new high-strength, pre-loaded lockdown
is engineered for high-temperature
applications where thermal expansion
is a critical factor. This hydraulically set
lockdown offers outstanding bending
resistance. It is also ideal for deepwater
applications.
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Unlocked Locked
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Passively activated, preloaded lockdown
Cameron’s proprietary sealing
technology
STM Parallel Bore Metal seal.
This seal is for casing hangers in the
18-3/4" high-pressure housing and is
interchangeable on 13-3/8", 10-3/4”
(or 9-5/8") and 7-5/8" (or 7") hangers.
It is radially engaged, bi-directional,
and provides constant contact pressure
on inner and outer sealing surfaces.
Because the PBM seal is designed for
a parallel-bore sealing surface, it
provides equal seal protection from
pressures above or below. The inability
to effectively seal pressures from below
is a weakness of tapered-bowl seal
designs offered by some wellhead
manufacturers.
The Cameron parallel bore design
allows for slight vertical movement of
the seal without affecting seal integrity.
During lab testing, the seal assembly was
moved as much as 1/4" while maintain-
ing full test pressure of 15,000 psi. PBM
seals are rated for continuous operation
in temperatures of up to 350˚F (177˚C),
with excursions to 400˚F (204˚C), and
can be used in H2S environments.
The PBM seal assembly and high-
pressure housing design provides for
two additional contingency seals: an
optional elastomer seal and a metal seal
in a recessed bore. The metal seals on
the OD and ID always retain pressure
before the elastomer seal. The elastomer
seal is a true secondary seal.
PBM seals are set hydraulically with
Cameron’s CHSART running tool,
which runs the casing hanger and seal
assembly in one trip.
STC Metal-End Cap seal. Field proven
in hundreds of wells, the MEC seal
assembly is used in the 10,000 psi STC
wellhead. Rated for temperatures up
to 250˚F (121˚C), the proprietary
CAMLAST™ elastomer seal element is
resistant to H2S, CO2, chlorides, diesel
fluid and oil or water-based amine
corrosion inhibitors.
Stainless steel caps on the upper and
lower surfaces of the elastomer prevent
extrusion, limit the elastomer’s exposure
to corrosive wellbore fluids and prevent
seal roll-off during installation. The
Metal-End Cap seal will often work
when ordinary seals won’t because the
seal is highly tolerant of sealing surface
damage. The seal is radially energized
and requires less energy to set than
ordinary seals. Well or test pressure
compresses the elastomer, which adds
to seal quality.
Parallel
Bore
Metal
Seals
Optional
CAMLAST
Insert
Seal
Recessed
Contingency
Seal Bore
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PBM Seal in PBM Seal in
running position energized position
 Single Trip Compact Subsea Wellhead System

The totally weight-set and compact STC with hub or mandrel BOP and Christmas
wellhead is a popular choice for lower tree connection profiles.
16" Seal pressure wells to 10,000 psi WP. Attractive The STC wellhead uses Cameron’s
Assembly

pricing and rig-time savings during installa-
tion make it the most cost-effective well-
head in its operating range.
The STC wellhead shares some of the
17-13/16" I.D.
same benefits as Cameron’s STM wellhead.
It has a compact design, casing hangers
and seal assemblies that can be run in a
16" Hanger
single trip and interchangeable parallel
17-7/8" I.D.
bore elastomeric seal assemblies. It is sup-
Seal Area
18" I.D.
DETAIL A
plied with the “passive” lockdown, which
16" Receptacle
is standard on the STM wellhead. The 18-
proprietary Metal-End Cap seals with CAM-
LAST elastomer. When setting the seals in
the STC wellhead system, the seal cannot
be completed unless the seal assembly is
locked in place correctly, eliminating the
possibility of a false test. Like the STM,
only four tools are required to run a five-
string STC system.
An optional 16" hanger can be
used in six-string casing programs. The
16" hanger and seal assembly are run

17-9/16" I.D.
3/4" high-pressure housing is available in one trip.

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DETAIL A
18-3/4" Housing 16" Hanger and
with16" Receptacle Seal Assembly Installed
High-pressure Hub or
Attached in Receptacle mandrel
18-3/4” housing
connection
Optional 16-inch casing hanger profiles

The 16" hanger and seal assembly are

available for both the STM and STC
Single-trip
wellheads in six-string casing programs. casing hanger
and seal
The receptacle can be welded to the bot- assemblies
tom of the 18-3/4" high-pressure housing Cameron weight-
set, Metal-End Cap
extension or anywhere in the 20" string elastomer seals

so height is not added to the wellhead.

Interchangeable
The receptacle contains a passive load seal assemblies
shoulder with a 17-9/16" minimum ID. on each casing
hanger
The shoulder is rated to 1.2 million lbs.
Full-bore running tools or a 17-1/2" bit Optional 16” casing
hanger available for
can be used without restriction. six-string programs
The 16" boll weevil style hanger and Passively activated,
standard lockdown
seal assembly are installed and tested in
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a single trip without having to pull the
bore protector in the 18-3/4" housing.
A CAMLAST elastomer seal in the
assembly is energized to seal in the bore
of the receptacle. The seal location is
protected from drill string damage.

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 Guidebases and running tools

The benefits of modularity are pre-
engineered into Cameron’s remotely
retrievable/reinstallable guidebase
(RRGB). Guideline or guidelineless
versions of the RRGB are available.
Guide posts are permitted to stroke
approximately six inches to allow BOP
orientation prior to loading the post.
This reduces the risk of damage when
landing the BOP stack. Multiple guide-
bases can be combined into a single,
pre-tested template. Any number of
wells can be accommodated through
multiples of the guidebases. Multi-well
units allow wellbores to be spaced as
closely as 7-1/2 ft on center.
CHSART (Casing Hanger Seal
Assembly Running Tool)
Cameron’s advanced wellhead technol-
ogy includes running tools that con-
tribute to system cost savings and ease
of use. The CHSART tool is a perfect
example. In the STM system, it allows
installation of casing hangers and PBM
seal assemblies in one trip. The tool is
then used to hydraulically set the casing
hanger seal assembly in a unique way.
Unlike ordinary systems, which set the
seals by pressurizing the BOP stack to
pump the seal down, the CHSART tool
sets the seal assembly by pressurizing
down the drill pipe. This allows the seal
to be set before stack pressure is
applied. After the seal is fully set and in
position, the seal is tested using the
CHSART tool with stack pressure.
Ancillary equipment
Cameron’s STM/STC Running Tool Packages
are normally all that’s required to run five-
string systems under most conditions. In addi-
tion, Cameron offers a complete line of
special-purpose tools:
• Jetting tool
• Boll weevil test tool with redundant seals
• Weight-set BOP tester
• One-trip Seal Assembly Retrieval Tool (SART)
• Temporary abandonment (TA) caps
• Emergency drill pipe hang-off tool
• Full-bore casing hanger running tools
• Hydraulic 30" running and tieback tool
• Casing hanger cleanout tool
• 30"/36" housing drill-ahead tool
• 18-3/4" housing retrieval tool
• Shallow water flow shutoff systems
• Tieback system
• CAMSMART™ downhole measurement tool

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The STM spring-loaded locking mechanism

automatically locks the 30” conductor housing
to the guidebase.

Cameron STM/STC Running Tool

Package and ancillary equipment
The Cameron STM and STC Running
Tool Package includes the tools required
to run a five-string STM or STC system.
All these tools are simple to make up
and all release with right-hand rotation.
• Retrievable/reinstallable guidebase
running tool;
• 30" housing running tool;
• 18-3/4" housing and BOP test tool;
• Casing Hanger Seal Assembly Running
Tool (CHSART) to install casing hang-
ers and seals and perform seal tests;
• Wear bushing running/retrieving tool.
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Casing hanger seal assembly is set by pressuring down the drill pipe,
which allows the seal to be set before stack pressure is applied.

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30” STM Conductor Housing

Running Tool
The 30” conductor housing running tool
is cam-actuated and has a non-rising
stem. Only 6-1/2 rotations fully make up
and release the tool.

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CHSART Multipurpose
Running Tool
In a single trip, the Casing Hanger Seal Assembly
Running Tool runs each casing hanger and seal
assembly and hydraulically sets the seal.

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Running Tool
for 18-3/4" Housing
After running the high-pressure
housing, this tool is used to test
the BOP. A position indicator rod
provides visual verification of
tool lock/unlock.

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Wear Bushing Running and

Retrieval Tool
This is the only tool needed to set or
retrieve all wear bushings in a five-string
system including the bore protector.

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Cameron
PO Box 1212
Houston Texas 77251-1212
Tel 713 939 2211
Fax 713 939 2620
www.camerondiv.com

Eastern Hemisphere
Cooper Cameron (U.K.) Ltd.
5 Mondial Way
Harlington
Hayes UB3 5AR
Tel 44 181 9901800
Fax 44 181 9901888
www.camerondiv.com

Asia Pacific/Middle East

Cooper Cameron (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
No. 2 Gul Circle, Jurong Industrial Est
Locked Bag Service No. 3
Jurong Town Post Office
Singapore 629560
Republic Of Singapore
Tel 65 8613355
Fax 65 8616197
www.camerondiv.com

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