have been disclosed which allow a tubular such as 10 to be suspended in a running assembly the running assembly is of a known design and has the capability not only of supporting the tubular for run in but also to actuate a swage assembly of the type shown for example in fig1 as item 16 what is common to all these techniques is that the tubular is first made to be supported by the casing due to a physical expansion technique the cementing takes place next and the cementing passages are then closed off since it is important to allow passages for the flow of cement the apparatus of the present invention in its various embodiments provides a technique which allows this to happen with the tubular supported while subsequently closing them off the technique can work with a swage assembly which is moved downwardly into the top end of the tubular or in another embodiment such as shown in fig2 26 the swage assembly is moved upwardly out of the top end of the tubular the creation of passages for the cement such as 34 in fig8 in fig1 a or 102 in fig2 can be accomplished in a variety of ways the nature of the initial contact used to support the tubular in the casing can vary without departing from the spirit of the invention thus although four locations are illustrated for the initial support contact in fig8 a different number of.