Patent ID: 7861789

Claim:
A method of completing a well having a casing hanger secured to a string of casing and set in a subsea wellhead housing to support the string of casing, comprising: (a) providing a tubular bridging hanger, the tubular bridging hanger being adapted to support a tubular hanger and not secured to a string of casing or tubing, with a lower exterior portion and an upper exterior portion having a larger outer diameter than the lower exterior portion; (b) attaching a metal-to-metal inner seal to the lower exterior portion; (c) lowering the bridging hanger on a running tool and running string into the wellhead housing, inserting the lower exterior portion into an interior of the casing hanger and by applying weight of the running string, setting the metal-to-metal inner seal between the interior of the casing hanger and the lower exterior portion of the bridging hanger and deflecting a plurality of inner seal portions outward to a conical configuration received within a recessed profile in the casing hanger.