Patent ID: 8225878

Claim:
A method of installing downhole at least a second tubular string for support from an opening in a first tubular string, comprising: supporting a second tubular string on a work string, said second tubular string further comprising a shoe fixedly mounted thereto and a swage assembly releasably mounted to said work string; inserting said second tubular string through an opening in said first tubular string; expanding a portion of said second tubular string that extends beyond said opening in said first tubular string in a downhole direction by initially closing off flow through said swage assembly and releasing said swage assembly from said work string to allow driving said swage assembly with pressure delivered through said work string; sealing an annular space around said expanded portion of said second tubular string after said expansion in said downhole direction by engaging said swage assembly to said shoe with said work string; supporting said second tubular string to said first tubular string after said sealing.