Patent ID: 8261837

Claim:
A method of connecting a string of conduit extending from a subsea wellhead assembly to a surface wellhead assembly on a platform, the surface wellhead assembly having a load shoulder therein, comprising: (a) providing a plurality of grooved profiles on an upper portion of the conduit, each profile being spaced axially from another of the grooved profiles relative to an axis of the conduit; (b) securing a lower end of the conduit to the subsea wellhead assembly and pulling upward on the upper portion of the conduit with an adapter to apply at least a final tension to the conduit until a selected one of the profiles is located above an upper end of the surface wellhead assembly; (c) attaching a support ring to the selected one of the profiles while the tension is maintained and the selected one of the profiles is above the upper end of the surface wellhead assembly after pulling upward on upper the portion of the conduit; (d) lowering the support ring into the surface wellhead assembly with the adapter and landing the support ring on the load shoulder to set the final tension; and (e) cutting off any excess of the upper portion of the conduit located above the support ring.