Abstract:
A gripping device for tubular elements includes two gripping arms arranged opposite to each other which together forming an opening having a diameter, transfer elements, at least one piston rod connected to the two gripping arms via the transfer elements, at least one cylinder in which the at least one piston rod is configured to run, a stop device connected to the at least one piston rod, and an adjustment system configured to limit an axial movement of the stop device and thereby the diameter of the opening. The stop device is configured to cooperate with the adjustment system.
Abstract:
A hydraulic cylinder unit for connection to a wire line riser tensioner system includes a hydraulic cylinder comprising a cylinder piston separating a first cylinder chamber from a second cylinder chamber. A low pressure tank is arranged as a closed cylinder. A first conduit is inserted into the closed cylinder and provides a fluid communication between the low pressure tank and the first cylinder chamber. A second conduit provides a fluid communication between a high pressure fluid reservoir and the second cylinder chamber. A feedback conduit provides a fluid communication between the first cylinder chamber and the second cylinder chamber. A valve element comprising at least one valve is configured to be in a fluid communication with the at least one first conduit and the at least one feedback conduit. The valve element is configured to provide a reversible switching between a first alternative configuration and a second alternative configuration.
Abstract:
A drilling rig includes a drill floor with a well center opening, a derrick having a drilling machine which is suspended above the well center opening, a pipe supply area which is arranged adjacent to the well center opening on the drill floor, and a pipe handling machine. The pipe supply area has at least one pipe rack which horizontally stores pipe sections. The pipe handling machine moves at least one of the pipe sections between a horizontal storage position in the at least one pipe rack and a vertical position or a substantially vertical position above the well center opening.
Abstract:
A riser assembly includes a riser with a first and second riser joint, an auxiliary line, and a first and second flange. The auxiliary line has an auxiliary line joint which connects a first and second auxiliary line section. The auxiliary line joint has a first joint assembly connected to the first auxiliary line section, and a second joint assembly connected to the second auxiliary line section. The first and second joint assembly each have a bearing surface. A bearing surface of the first flange engages the bearing surface of the first joint assembly. A bearing surface of the second flange engages the bearing surface of the second joint assembly. The bearing surface of the first flange or of the first joint assembly also has a rocker formation which contacts the bearing surfaces of the first flange and of the first joint assembly while permitting a relative angular movement therebetween.
Abstract:
A drilling rig system includes a drilling rig having a floor which is generally planar, and a utility vehicle having a base, a drive apparatus, and a ground engaging motive apparatus upon which the base is supported on the floor. The drive apparatus drives the ground engaging motive apparatus to move the utility vehicle across the floor. The ground engaging motive apparatus is drivable so as to change a direction of travel of the utility vehicle at any point on the floor.
Abstract:
A machine for a drilling plant includes a base, an arm, and a tool which is carried by the arm. The tool has a receiver for a protective cap. The machine is operable to engage the protective cap and to remove or to install the protective cap from or on an end of a drilling tubular.
Abstract:
A drilling rig system includes a drilling rig having a floor which is generally planar, and a utility vehicle having a base, a drive apparatus, and a ground engaging motive apparatus upon which the base is supported on the floor. The drive apparatus drives the ground engaging motive apparatus to move the utility vehicle across the floor. The ground engaging motive apparatus is drivable so as to change a direction of travel of the utility vehicle at any point on the floor.
Abstract:
A fingerboard latch arrangement includes an elongate support member, a latch which moves from a closed position into an open position and from the open position into the closed position, and an activation member which is connected to and which is movable longitudinally along the elongate support member. The activation member includes means to bring the latch from the closed position into the open position and from the open position into the closed position.
Abstract:
A method for analyzing a drilling operation includes obtaining a first set of logged operational data from the drilling operation through a first time interval, obtaining a set of operational activity dividers that delimit second time intervals within the first time interval, allocating one of a plurality of pre-defined activities to each of the second time intervals, wherein a first activity is one of the plurality of pre-defined activities, calculating a first performance indicator parameter for the second time intervals which have been allocated to the first activity, generating a time-dependent profile of the first performance indicator parameter for the second time intervals, and outputting at least one calculated value of the first performance indicator parameter to an operator. The first performance indicator parameter is calculated as a function of a duration of a respective second time interval which has been allocated to the first activity.
Abstract:
A wireline tensioner includes at least one sheave, a first accumulator unit, a second accumulator unit, a hydraulic distribution system, and a hydraulic cylinder unit which is operatively connected to the at least one sheave, to the first accumulator unit and to the second accumulator unit via the hydraulic distribution system. The first accumulator unit receives hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic distribution system at a first hydraulic pressure. The second accumulator unit receives the hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic distribution system at a second hydraulic pressure. The first hydraulic pressure is lower than the second hydraulic pressure.