Drill Rigs and Nomenclature
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Drill Rigs and Nomenclature
Drill Rigs and Nomenclature 1 2 3 4 5 Blow out protectors (below drilling platform) showing: bell nipple (to mud tanks) mouse hole casing choke manifold outlet. 6 Rotation system 7 8 9 10 11 Drill Site/Rig Personnel • Tool Pusher – responsible for all rig operations (rig manager). The boss around drill rigs. • Driller – controls drilling process. • Roughneck – drill floor people. • Roustabout – general labors. • Company man – usually the drilling engineer. • Mud man – prepares, conditions, And monitors mud. • Geologist – sample collection & interpretation; ID’s reservoirs, coring and test horizons; mandates rig functions (circulate bottoms up, etc.), transmits this data to company supervisors. • Mud logger collects drill cuttings, records mud gasses and prepares sample/mud log 12 Small air drill-rig south of Tulsa Oklahoma Pictures taken in Dec. 2007 by Rick Andrews 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Typical “big” drill rigs used on land and allied equipment 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Cable Tool Drill Rigs Commonly used before 1950 40 Old cable drill rig abandoned in Redden Oil Field in southern Oklahoma. 41 Draw-works of an old cable drill rig abandoned in Redden Oil Field in southern Oklahoma. 42 Greatly worn tip of cable tool bit. From the abandoned Redden Oil Field in southern Oklahoma. 43 Offshore drill rigs 44 Fixed production platforms 45 Jackup rigs 46 Pontoon type semisubmersible rig 47 Twin hull semisubmersible rig 48 49 50 51 Semisubmersible rig sinking after being towed to site 52 Semisubmersible rig blown under bridge during Katrina 53 Jackup rig collapsing after hurricane in Gulf of Mexico 54