Patent ID: 8881818

Claim:
A spear and tubular cutter combination, comprising: a mandrel rotatably mounted in an outer assembly for continuous rotation with respect thereto, said mandrel supporting a tubular cutter and having a flow passage therethrough; an anchor mounted to said outer assembly and configured to allow said outer assembly to enter the tubular to cut the tubular with a tensile force on the tubular applied through said mandrel to said outer assembly when said mandrel is held axially stationary that is of a magnitude to at least support the weight of a tubular segment being produced by said tubular cutter; said outer assembly further comprising a selectively operated flow diverter to direct fluid through said outer assembly in a bypass flow path around said flow diverter; and a debris retention device supported by one of said mandrel and said outer assembly and located between opposed ends of said outer assembly, through which fluid delivered through said flow passage to said cutter returns through said bypass flow path with cuttings retained by said debris retention device.