Drilling Equipment

Author: Pl Skalle, NTNU

Assistant producer: Reza Rahmani

Drilling Equipment

Rig:

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The machine used to drill a wellbore. In onshore operations, the rig

includes virtually everything except living quarters. Major
components of the rig include the mud tanks, the mud pumps, the
derrick or mast, the drawworks, the rotary table or topdrive, the
drillstring, the power generation equipment and auxiliary equipment.

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1. Crown Block and Water Table

2. Catline Boom and Hoist Line
3. Drilling Line
4. Monkeyboard
5. Traveling Block
6. Top Drive
7. Mast
8. Drill Pipe
9. Doghouse
10. Blowout Preventer
11. Water Tank
12. Electric Cable Tray
13. Engine Generator Sets
14. Fuel Tank
15. Electrical Control House
16. Mud Pumps
17. Bulk Mud Component Tanks
18. Mud Tanks (Pits)
19. Reserve Pit
20. Mud-Gas Separator
21. Shale Shakers
22. Choke Manifold
23. Pipe Ramp
24. Pipe Racks
25. Accumulator

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Mud Circulating System:

Hose
Kelly
Stand pipe
BOP
Annulus
Drillpipes
Drill collars
Drill bit
Return line
Shale shaker
Seprator
Desilter
Mud mixer
Mud tanks
Mud-mixing Shake
Mud pumps
Discharge line

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Drawworks:
The machine on the rig consisting of a large-diameter steel spool,
brakes, a power source and assorted auxiliary devices. The
primary function of the drawworks is to reel out and reel in the
drilling line, a large diameter wire rope, in a controlled fashion.
The reeling out of the drilling line is powered by gravity and
reeling in by an electric motor or diesel engine.

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Travelling block:

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The set of sheaves that

move up and down in the
derrick. The wire rope
threaded through them is
threaded (or "reeved")
back to the stationary
crown blocks located on
the top of the derrick. This
pulley system gives great
mechanical advantage to
the action of the wire rope
drilling
line,
enabling
heavy loads (drillstring,
casing and liners) to be
lifted out of or lowered into
the wellbore.

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Crown block:
The fixed set of pulleys (called sheaves) located at the top of the
derrick or mast, over which the drilling line is threaded. The
companion blocks to these pulleys are the traveling blocks. By using
two sets of blocks in this fashion, great mechanical advantage is
gained, enabling the use of relatively small drilling line (3/4 to 1 1/2
in. diameter steel cable) to hoist loads many times heavier than the
cable could support as a single strand.

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Hook:
The high-capacity J-shaped equipment used to hang various
other equipment, particularly the swivel and kelly, the elevator
bails or topdrive units. The hook is attached to the bottom of the
traveling block and provides a way to pick up heavy loads with
the traveling block. The hook is either locked (the normal
condition) or free to rotate, so that it may be mated or decoupled
with items positioned around the rig floor, not limited to a single
direction.

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Drilling line:
A wire rope hoisting line, reeved on
sheaves of the crown block and
traveling block (in effect a block and
tackle). Its primary purpose is to hoist
or lower drill pipe or casing from or
into a well. Also, a wire rope used to
support the drilling tools.

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Elevator:
A set of clamps that grips a stand, or
column, of casing, tubing, drill pipe, or
sucker rods, so the stand can be
raised or lowered into the hole.

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Rotary table:
The revolving or spinning section
of the drillfloor that provides
power to turn the drillstring in a
clockwise direction. The rotary
motion and power are transmitted
through the kelly bushing and the
kelly to the drillstring. Almost all
rigs today have a rotary table,
either as primary or backup
system for rotating the drillstring.
Topdrive technology, which allows
continuous rotation of the
drillstring, has replaced the rotary
table in certain operations. A few
rigs are being built today with
topdrive systems only, and lack
the traditional kelly system.
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Kelly:

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A long square or hexagonal steel

bar with a hole drilled through the
middle for a fluid path. The kelly is
used to transmit rotary motion from
the rotary table or kelly bushing to
the drillstring, while allowing the
drillstring to be lowered or raised
during rotation. The kelly goes
through the kelly bushing, which is
driven by the rotary table. The kelly
bushing has an inside profile
matching the kelly's outside profile
(either square or hexagonal), but
with slightly larger dimensions so
that the kelly can freely move up
and down inside.

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The kelly transfers rotary motion from the

rotary table or kelly bushing to the drillstring.
The upper diagram shows the interior fluid
path. The middle diagram shows the
hexagonal cross section. The lower diagram
shows the outside view of the kelly.
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Kelly bushing:

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An adapter that serves to connect the rotary table to the kelly. The
kelly bushing has an inside diameter profile that matches that of the
kelly, usually square or hexagonal. It is connected to the rotary table
by four large steel pins that fit into mating holes in the rotary table.
The rotary motion from the rotary table is transmitted to the bushing
through the pins, and then to the kelly itself through the square or
hexagonal flat surfaces between the kelly and the kelly bushing. The
kelly then turns the entire drillstring because it is screwed into the
top of the drillstring itself. Depth measurements are commonly
referenced to the KB, such as 8327 ft KB, meaning 8327 feet below
the kelly bushing.

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Topdrive:
A device that turns the drillstring.
This is radically different from the
more conventional rotary table and
kelly method of turning the drillstring
because it enables drilling to be
done with three joint stands instead
of single joints of pipe. It also
enables the driller to quickly engage
the pumps or the rotary while tripping
pipe, which cannot be done easily
with the kelly system. While not a
panacea, modern topdrives are a
major improvement to drilling rig
technology and are a large
contributor to the ability to drill more
difficult extended-reach wellbores. In
addition, the topdrive enables drillers
to minimize both frequency and cost
per incident of stuck pipe.
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Swivel:

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A mechanical device that

must simultaneously
suspend the weight of the
drillstring, provide for
rotation of the drillstring
beneath it while keeping
the upper portion
stationary, and permit
high-volume flow of highpressure drilling mud
from the fixed portion to
the rotating portion
without leaking.

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Kelly hose:
A large-diameter (3- to 5-in. inside diameter), high-pressure flexible
line used to connect the standpipe to the swivel. This flexible piping
arrangement permits the kelly (and, in turn, the drillstring and bit) to
be raised or lowered while drilling fluid is pumped through the
drillstring. The simultaneous lowering of the drillstring while
pumping fluid is critical to the drilling operation.

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Mud Pump
A large, reciprocating pump used to
circulate the mud on a drilling rig. A
typical mud pump is a double- or
triple-acting, two- or three-cylinder
piston pump whose pistons travel in
replaceable liners and are driven by
a crankshaft actuated by an engine.
A mud pump also is called a slush
pump.

Bulk Mud Components in

Storage
Hopper type tanks for storage of
drilling fluid components.

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Desander:
A hydrocyclone device that removes large drill solids from the
whole mud system. The desander should be located downstream of
the shale shakers and degassers, but before the desilters or mud
cleaners.Various size desander and desilter cones are functionally
identical, with the size of the cone determining the size of particles
the device removes from the mud system.

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Shale shaker:

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The primary and probably most important device on the rig for
removing drilled solids from the mud. A wire-cloth screen vibrates
while the drilling fluid flows on top of it. The liquid phase of the mud
and solids smaller than the wire mesh pass through the screen,
while larger solids are retained on the screen and eventually fall off
the back of the device and are discarded.
Where it was once common for drilling rigs to have only one or two
shale shakers, modern high-efficiency rigs are often fitted with four
or more shakers.

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Mud pit:
A large tank that holds drilling fluid on the rig or at a mud-mixing
plant. For land rigs, most mud pits are rectangular steel construction,
with partitions that hold about 200 barrels each. They are set in
series for the active mud system. On most offshore rigs, pits are
constructed into the drilling vessel and are larger, holding up to 1000
barrels. Circular pits are used at mixing plants and on some drilling
rigs to improve mixing efficiency and reduce dead spots that allow
settling. Earthen mud pits were
the earliest type of mud pit, but
environmental protection concern
has led to less frequent use of
open pits in the ground. Today,
earthen pits are used only to
store used or waste mud and
cuttings prior to disposal and
remediation of the site of the pit.

Mud House: The place where mud additives are kept at the rig,
also known as the sack room.
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Reserve Pits:
A mud pit in which a supply of
drilling fluid has been stored. Also,
a waste pit, usually an excavated,
earthen-walled pit. It may be lined
with plastic to prevent soil
contamination.

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Mud Gas
Separator:

Rig facilities

A device that removes gas

from the mud coming out of
a well when a kick is being
circulated out.
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Desilterer:
A hydrocyclone much like a desander except that its design
incorporates a greater number of smaller cones. As with the desander,
its purpose is to remove unwanted solids from the mud system. The
smaller cones allow the desilter to efficiently remove smaller diameter
drill solids than a desander does. For that reason, the desilter is
located downstream from the desander in the surface mud system.

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Flowline (mud return line):

The large-diameter metal pipe that connects the bell nipple under
the rotary table to the possum belly at the mud tanks. The flowline is
simply an inclined, gravity-flow conduit to direct mud coming out the
top of the wellbore to the mud surface-treating equipment. When
drilling certain highly reactive clays, called "gumbo," the flowline
may become plugged and require considerable effort by the rig crew
to keep it open and flowing. In addition, the flowline is usually fitted
with a crude paddle-type flow-measuring device commonly called a
"flow show" that may give the driller the first indication that the well
is flowing.

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Stand pipe:
A rigid metal conduit that provides the
high-pressure pathway for drilling mud
to travel approximately one-third of the
way up the derrick, where it connects
to a flexible high-pressure hose (kelly
hose). Many large rigs are fitted with
dual standpipes so that downtime is
kept to a minimum if one standpipe
requires repair.

Annulus:
The space around a pipe in a well
bore, the outer wall of which may
be the wall of either the bore hole
or the casing; sometimes termed
the annular space.
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Rotary Drill Bits:

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Rotary drilling bits usually are classified according to their design as

Fixed cutter bits(Drag bits) and Rolling cutter bits.

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Fixed cutter bits:

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PDC(Polycrystalline Diamond Compact) bit:

A drilling tool that uses polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC)
cutters to shear rock with a continuous scraping motion. These
cutters are synthetic diamond disks about 1/8-in. thick and about
1/2 to 1 in. in diameter. PDC bits are effective at drilling shale
formations, especially when used in combination with oil-base muds.

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Rotary Drill Bits:

Rolling cutter bits (Roller-cone bits):
A tool designed to crush rock efficiently while incurring a minimal
amount of wear on the cutting surfaces. As the drillstring is rotated, the
bit cones roll along the bottom of the hole in a circle. As they roll, new
teeth come in contact with the bottom of the hole, crushing the rock
immediately below and around the bit tooth. As the cone rolls, the tooth
then lifts off the bottom of the hole and a high-velocity fluid jet strikes
the crushed rock chips to remove them from the bottom of the hole and
up the annulus.There are to types of roller-cone bits:
Steel insert bits:
Application for soft formations

Carbide insert bits:

Application for hard formations

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Drill pipe:

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Drill pipe is a tubular steel conduit

fitted with special threaded ends
called tool joints. The drillpipe
connects the rig surface equipment
with the bottomhole assembly and
the bit, both to pump drilling fluid to
the bit and to be able to raise, lower
and rotate the bottomhole assembly
and bit.

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Drill Collar:

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A component of a drillstring that provides weight on bit for

drilling. Gravity acts on the large mass of the collars to
provide the downward force needed for the bits to
efficiently break rock.

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Tool Joint:
The enlarged and threaded ends of joints of drillpipe. These
components are fabricated separately from the pipe body and welded
onto the pipe at a manufacturing facility. The tool joints provide highstrength, high-pressure threaded connections that are sufficiently
robust to survive the rigors of drilling and numerous cycles of
tightening and loosening at threads. Tool joints are usually made of
steel that has been heat treated to a higher strength than the steel of
the tube body. The large-diameter section of the tool joints provides a
low stress area where pipe tongs are used to grip the pipe. Hence,
relatively small cuts caused by the pipe tongs do not significantly
impair the strength or life of the joint of drillpipe.

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Bottom hole assembly:

The lower portion of the drillstring,
consisting of (from the bottom up in a
vertical well) the bit, bit sub, a mud
motor (in certain cases), stabilizers,
drill collars, heavy-weight drillpipe,
jarring devices ("jars") and crossovers
for various threadforms. Oftentimes
the assembly includes a mud motor,
directional drilling and measuring
equipment, measurements-whiledrillingtools, logging-while-drilling
tools and other specialized devices.
A simple BHA consisting of a bit,
various crossovers, and drill collars
may be relatively inexpensive (less
than $100,000 US in 1999), while a
complex one may cost ten or more
times that amount.

Coiled tubing
connector
Check valve
assembly

Pressure
disconnect
Drill collars

Mud motor

Bit

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Blowout preventer (BOP):

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A large valve at the top of a well that may

be closed if the drilling crew loses control
of formation fluids. By closing this valve
(usually operated remotely via hydraulic
actuators), the drilling crew usually regains
control of the reservoir, and procedures
can then be initiated to increase the mud
density until it is possible to open the BOP
and retain pressure control of the
formation. BOPs come in a variety of
styles, sizes and pressure ratings. Some
can effectively close over an open
wellbore, some are designed to seal
around tubular components in the well
(drillpipe, casing or tubing) and others are
fitted with hardened steel shearing
surfaces that can actually cut through
drillpipe.

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Choke Manifold
The arrangement of piping and
special valves, called chokes,
through which drilling mud is
circulated when the blowout
preventers are closed to control the
pressures encountered during a kick.

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Accumulator:
The storage device for nitrogen
pressurized hydraulic fluid, which
is used in operating the blowout
preventers.

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Derrick:
The structure used to support the crown blocks and the drillstring of a
drilling rig. Derricks are usually pyramidal in shape, and offer a good
strength-to-weight ratio. If the derrick design does not allow it to be
moved easily in one piece, special ironworkers must assemble them
piece by piece, and in some cases disassemble them if they are to be
moved.

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Mast:
Mast is a portable derrick capable
of being erected as a unit, as
distinguished from a standard
derrick, which cannot be raised to
a working position as a unit.
This structure used to support the
crown blocks and the drillstring.
Masts are usually rectangular or
trapezoidal in shape and offer a
very good stiffness, important to
land rigs whose mast is laid down
when the rig is moved. They suffer
from being heavier than
conventional derricks and
consequently are not usually found
in offshore environments, where
weight is more of a concern than in
land operations.
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Catline Boom and Hoist Line:

A structural framework erected near the
top of the derrick for lifting material.

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Pipe Ramp
An angled ramp for dragging drill
pipe up to the drilling platform or
bringing pipe down off the drill
platform.
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Monkeyboard:
The derrickman's working platform. Double
board, tribble board, fourable board; a
monkey board located at a height in the
derrick or mast equal to two, three, or four
lengths of pipe respectively.

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Doghouse:
A small enclosure on the rig floor used as
an office for the driller or as a storehouse
for small objects. Also, any small building
used as an office or for storage.

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Electric cable tray

Supports the heavy electrical cables
that feed the power from the control
panel to the rig motors.

Engine Generator Sets

A diesel, Liquefied Petroleum Gas
(LPG), natural gas, or gasoline
engine, along with a mechanical
transmission and generator for
producing power for the drilling rig.
Newer rigs use electric generators
to power electric motors on the
other parts of the rig.
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Fuel tanks
Fuel storage tanks for the
power generating system.

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Electric Control House

On diesel electric rigs, powerful
diesel engines drive large electric
generators. The generators produce
electricity that flows through cables
to electric switches and control
equipment enclosed in a control
cabinet or panel. Electricity is fed to
electric motors via the panel.
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Pipe Racks:
A horizontal support for tubular
goods.

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Water tank
Is used to store water that is
used for mud mixing, cementing,
and rig cleaning.

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Slips:
A device used to grip the drillstring in a relatively nondamaging
manner and suspend it in the rotary table. This device consists of
three or more steel wedges that are hinged together, forming a near
circle around the drillpipe. On the drillpipe side (inside surface), the
slips are fitted with replaceable, hardened tool steel teeth that
embed slightly into the side of the pipe. The outsides of the slips are
tapered to match the taper of the rotary table.

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Tong:
The large wrenches used for turning when making up or breaking out
drill pipe, casing, tubing, or other pipe; variously called casing tongs,
rotary tongs, and so forth according to the specific use. Power tongs
are pneumatically or hydraulically operated tools that spin the pipe
up and, in some instances, apply the final makeup torque.

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Title: Drilling Equipment

Author: Assoc. Prof. Pl Skalle

Assistant producer: Reza Rahmani

Size: mb

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Publication date: 2. January 2002

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Abstract:

Software required: Power Point 2002

Prerequisites: B.Sc

Estimated time to complete: 150 minutes

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http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/oilandgas

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http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com

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http://cap.estevan.sk.ca/
http://www.idmequipment.com/
http://www.oogeep.org/Rhonda/drilling.htm
http://www.bakerhughes.com/
http://www.ectool.com/drillingsup.htm
http://www.idsuk.com/Tech.htm
http://www.nql.com/intro.html

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Name: Pl skalle
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Position: Associate professor at Department of

Petroleum Engineering and Applied
Geophysics, NTNU
Address: Eidsvollgate 33, 7030 Trondheim,
Norway
E-mail: [email protected]

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Phone: 73 59 47 25

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Web: http://iptibm3.ipt.ntnu.no/~pskalle

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