Patent classifications
E21B15/00
ADAPTIVE LEVELING CONTROL SYSTEM
Industrial machines and methods of operating the same. One method includes receiving, with an electronic processor, a current value of a parameter of an industrial machine during operation of the industrial machine and comparing, with the electronic processor, the current value of the parameter to a stored value of the parameter to determine whether the industrial machine is unlevel. The method also includes, when the industrial machine is unlevel, autonomously, with the electronic processor, changing a position of at least one of a plurality of jacks to level the industrial machine, wherein autonomously changing the position of at least one of the plurality of jacks includes at least one selected from a group consisting of extending the at least one of the plurality of jacks and retracting the at least one of the plurality of jacks.
GUIDE ARM
A guide arm with dual guiding functionality is disclosed. The guide arm comprises two parallelogram mechanisms with a slew drive in between. The first parallelogram mechanism may move the guide arm between different travel positions. The slew drive may rotate the second parallelogram mechanism between different clock positions. The second parallelogram mechanism may extend and retract the guide arm. The guide arm may be mounted to a belly board or to a derrick wall rather than on a drill floor. A first guiding functionality may include guiding the lower end of a pipe stand in transfer between a drilling rig well center and a storage position. A second guiding functionality may include guiding the pin end of a single tubular between a drilling operation and a catwalk.
GUIDE ARM
A guide arm with dual guiding functionality is disclosed. The guide arm comprises two parallelogram mechanisms with a slew drive in between. The first parallelogram mechanism may move the guide arm between different travel positions. The slew drive may rotate the second parallelogram mechanism between different clock positions. The second parallelogram mechanism may extend and retract the guide arm. The guide arm may be mounted to a belly board or to a derrick wall rather than on a drill floor. A first guiding functionality may include guiding the lower end of a pipe stand in transfer between a drilling rig well center and a storage position. A second guiding functionality may include guiding the pin end of a single tubular between a drilling operation and a catwalk.
Drilling rig equipment platform
An aircraft-transportable platform component for supporting a drilling rig includes a buoyant body supported by a frame and lifting members coupled to the frame for engagement by an aircraft. A portion of the frame protrudes from an underside surface of the frame for anchoring the platform component in unstable ground. The buoyant body maintains a top surface of the aircraft-transportable platform component above the unstable ground.
Drilling rig equipment platform
An aircraft-transportable platform component for supporting a drilling rig includes a buoyant body supported by a frame and lifting members coupled to the frame for engagement by an aircraft. A portion of the frame protrudes from an underside surface of the frame for anchoring the platform component in unstable ground. The buoyant body maintains a top surface of the aircraft-transportable platform component above the unstable ground.
Well intervention semisubmersible vessel
A well intervention semisubmersible vessel and method including a drilling rig further including a non-elevated derrick floor and a handling tower having a single point land out without riser tensioners. The vessel may also include a flush drill floor, a flush moonpool door, a lift frame and personnel access walkway wherein the lift frame is capable of being skidded into position by a skidding system capable of providing personnel access and wherein the skidding system comprises a plurality of skidding rails, at least one remotely operated vehicle, an intervention rising system and storage area, a crane, a moonpool and handling area, a moonpool trolley, at least one fluid pump, and/or at least one tank.
MOBILE BOOM SYSTEM
A boom system for utility service lines (such as cables, wires, hoses, pipes, etc.) for a drilling rig. The mobile boom system includes a skid with posts and one or more booms pivotally attached to each post. One or more articulating booms attached to a first post can support and carry the service lines connected to the sources and one or more articulating booms attached to the second post can support and carry the service lines connected to a drilling rig, or to a boom extending from a drilling rig. The mobile articulating boom system can include means for moving and selectively positioning the mobile articulating boom system at a drilling site. The mobile boom system can be adapted so that it has first, second, and third booms which can be placed in a closed position and fit within a perimeter defined by the skid for easier transportation to and from a drilling site.
Drill floor support structures
The present disclosure relates to a modular drilling cellar configured to be arranged beneath a drill floor of a drilling rig. The cellar may have a housing for storing well head equipment and a drill floor support structure. The drill floor support structure may have a pair of support legs, each leg may have an extension portion, a column portion, and a bearing foot. Each of the extension portion and column portion may be configured to be arranged in a reading position and an operating position.
Drill floor support structures
The present disclosure relates to a modular drilling cellar configured to be arranged beneath a drill floor of a drilling rig. The cellar may have a housing for storing well head equipment and a drill floor support structure. The drill floor support structure may have a pair of support legs, each leg may have an extension portion, a column portion, and a bearing foot. Each of the extension portion and column portion may be configured to be arranged in a reading position and an operating position.
Electronics for a thin bed array induction logging system
A logging tool electronics system is disclosed with noise minimization features and pulse compression signal processing techniques to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of array induction logging tools. The borehole is radiated with a magnetic field produced by a configurable multi-frequency and/or multi-amplitude sine wave signal stimulus section driving a fully differential single transmitter coil. Received signals from multiple mutually balanced fully differential receiver arrays are processed by receiver signal chains using adaptive algorithms under firmware control. The received signals are used to determine the conductivity and resistivity of the formation surrounding the borehole.