Patent ID: 7325600

Claim:
A coil tubing hanger for running a coil tubing into or out of a live well, comprising: a hanger body that houses an externally actuated annular pack-off element used to selectively provide a high pressure fluid seal in sealing engagement with the coil tubing, and supports tubing slips above and independently of the annular sealing element; and an injection nipple mounted to the hanger body and enclosing the slips, the injection nipple having an injection nipple port through which the coil tubing is run and a surface pack-off received in the injection nipple port, the surface pack-off providing a high pressure fluid seal around the coil tubing to permit the annular pack-off element to be released from sealing engagement with the coil tubing, wherein the hanger body comprises a hanger base having a bottom end that connects to a well tree of the live well and a sidewall that extends upwardly from the bottom end and defines a cylindrical cavity for housing the annular pack-off element, and wherein the hanger body further comprises a hanger cap having a depending bottom sidewall that threadedly connects to the outside of the sidewall of the hanger base, a slip bowl in a top end thereof and an axial fluid passage that communicates with the slip bowl and the cylindrical cavity in the hanger base.