Patent ID: 8287008

Claim:
A threaded tubular connection comprising: a male tubular element comprising a male threading; a female tubular element comprising a female threading that can cooperate with the male threading on makeup; an annular axial abutment surface on said male tubular element and an annular sealing surface disposed on a radially outer surface of said male tubular element, an annular axial abutment surface on said female tubular element and an annular sealing surface disposed on a radially inner surface of said female tubular element, the axial abutment surfaces coming into mutual abutment at the end of makeup while the sealing surfaces come into sealing contact by radial interference, one of the axial abutment surfaces as a distal abutment surface being formed at a free end of a first of said tubular elements, which first element includes a lip that extends axially between its threading and the distal abutment surface, and one of the sealing surfaces as an on-lip sealing surface being disposed on the lip at a non-zero axial distance from the distal abutment surface, wherein a segment constituting at least a portion of axial half-sections of each of the axial abutment surfaces is inclined with respect to the radial direction, said segment axially approaching said threadings with an increasing inclination so that on going from said radially outer or inner surface, said axial half-sections do not change their direction of inclination, wherein said axial half-sections are radially orientated at the end thereof close to said radially outer or inner surface, and wherein said inclined segment is radially orientated at an end thereof close to said radially outer or inner surface where said inclined segment connects to a straight radial segment that also forms part of said axial half-sections.