The present disclosure relates generally to drilling rigs, and specifically to drilling rig structures for land drilling in the petroleum exploration and production industry.
Land-based drilling rigs may be configured to move from location to location to drill multiple wells within a wellsite. It is often desirable to move the land-based drilling rig across an already drilled well within the wellsite for which there is a well-head in place. Further, mast placement on land-based drilling rigs may have an effect on drilling activity. For example, depending on mast placement on the drilling rig, an existing well head may interfere with the location of land-situated equipment such as, for example, existing well heads and may also interfere with raising and lowering of equipment needed for operations.
The present disclosure provides for a land-based drill rig. The land-based drilling rig includes.
The summary and the detailed description are further understood when read in conjunction with the appended drawings. For the purpose of illustrating the present disclosure, there are shown in the drawings exemplary embodiments of said disclosure; however, the disclosure is not limited to the specific methods, compositions, and devices disclosed. In addition, the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale. In the drawings:
The present disclosure may be understood more readily by reference to the following detailed description, taken in connection with the accompanying figures, which form a part of this disclosure. It is to be understood that this disclosure is not limited to the specific devices, methods, applications, conditions or parameters described and/or shown herein, and that the terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments by way of example only and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure. Also, as used in the specification, including the appended claims, the singular forms “a,” “an,” and “the” include the plural, and reference to a particular numerical value includes at least that particular value, unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. The term “plurality,” as used herein, means more than one.
Mast 70 may be fixedly or pivotably coupled to drill rig floor 30. Mast 70 may include mast V-door side 72, which faces drilling rig V-door side 58. Mast V-door side 72 may be an open side of mast 70. Equipment attached to mast 70 may include racking board 86 and racker 76.
As shown in
In certain embodiments, subfloor 35 may be positioned so as to span multiple well cellars 12. Well cellars 12, as used herein, are defined as locations in wellsite 15 at which one or more wells are positioned and may include a trench or otherwise dug-out area around the wells of each well cellar 12. For example, as shown in
In some embodiments, substructure boxes 40 may each include lower substructure box 42 and upper substructure boxes 44. Lower substructure box 42 may extend the length of or a portion of the length of subfloor 35. Lower substructure box 42 may be rectangular prisms having long sides or cubes. For example, lower substructure box 42 may be a rectangular prism having long side 45 parallel to V-door side 58 of drill rig floor 30, a cube with equal length sides, a rectangular prism with a square base, or long side 45 perpendicular to V-door side 58 of drill rig floor 30. Upper substructure boxes 44 may be positioned atop lower substructure box 42 with gap 43 between upper substructure boxes 44. Upper substructure boxes 44 may be rectangular prisms having long sides or cubes. Gap 43 may be sized such that robotic pipe handler (RPH) 80 may articulate between upper substructure boxes 44 or such that the RPH may pass pipe 130 through gap 43. Beams 36 may be positioned atop upper substructure boxes 44 and may be pinned or welded.
In some embodiments, RPH 80 may be omitted and a powered catwalk may be included. The powered catwalk may include a ramp that passes through gap 43 to allow for pipe 130 delivery to drill rig floor 30 when drill rig floor 30 is at the furthest well row.
In certain embodiments, RPH 80 may be affixed to V-door side 58 of drill rig floor 30. RPH 80 may be adapted to retrieve pipe 130 from a position on the ground and move pipe 130 to racker 76. Articulating portion 84 of RPH 80 may pass through gap 43 during articulation, such as when moving pipe 130 to racker 76.
In the embodiments shown in
As shown in
In certain embodiments, certain equipment may be located within substructure boxes 40. Such equipment may include, but not be limited to shakers 170, degasser 172, and stripping tank 174.
In the embodiments shown in
In some embodiments, as shown in
One having ordinary skill in the art with the benefit of this disclosure will understand that the specific configurations depicted in the figures may be varied without deviating from the scope of this disclosure.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that numerous changes and modifications can be made to the preferred embodiments of the present disclosure and that such changes and modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of said disclosure. It is, therefore, intended that the appended claims cover all such equivalent variations as fall within the true spirit and scope of said disclosure.
This application is a nonprovisional application which claims priority from U.S. provisional application No. 63/073,197, filed Sep. 1, 2020, which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
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