Patent ID: 8668020

Claim:
An emergency assembly for supporting a casing in a wellhead and for supporting a control line of a downhole tool deployed on the casing from the wellhead, the wellhead having a bore with first and second shoulders and defining at least one side port, the assembly comprising: a control line hanger disposing on the second shoulder in the bore of the wellhead and having a plurality of segments, the segments being independent of the casing and affixing laterally together around the casing, the control line hanger defining at least one communication port, the at least one communication port communicating with the side port in the wellhead and communicating with the control line of the downhole tool; and a casing hanger being independent of the control line hanger, the casing hanger disposing on the first shoulder in the bore of the wellhead uphole of the control line hanger and supporting the casing therefrom, wherein the casing hanger supports the casing in tension while the control line hanger, being independent of the casing hanger and the casing, exclusively supports the control line.