Texas drilling rig tornado

A tornado left damage and injuries after it hit a gas drilling rig in the Texas panhandle Wednesday night. Hemphill County Sheriff's Office confirmed the tornado touched down just north of Canadian, Texas. Police reported structural damage as well as injuries.. A tornado left damage and injuries after it hit a gas drilling rig in the Texas panhandle Wednesday night. Hemphill County Sheriff's Office confirmed the tornado touched down just north of Canadian, Texas. Police reported structural damage as well as injuries.. A tornado touched down in northwestern Texas Wednesday, damaging a gas drilling rig and resulting in serious injuries, the Hemphill County Sheriff’s Office and a hospital official said.. At least three people in the Texas panhandle were injured after a tornado hit a natural gas drilling rig. Hemphill County Sheriff James Pearson said in a statement that one person was impaled in the abdomen, another had non-life-threatening injuries to the face, and the third suffered minor injuries.. A tornado that hit northwestern Texas on Wednesday damaged a gas drilling rig and injured at least three people, as days of severe weather and flooding continued throughout the state, according to local authorities. [pdf]

Run casing drilling rig

Before starting casing, the drilling supervisor should hold a pre-job safety meeting and confirm the following with the crew: 1. Remove unnecessary tools. 2. Good Housekeeping before the job 3. Rig up Casing handling equipment: Using appropriate hand. . A circulation sub, fitting the casing thread, equipped with a WECO connection, shall be readily available on the rig floor at all times during casing running. [pdf]

Different parts of a drilling rig

Drilling derricks and Rig Masts consist of a steel framework with a square or rectangular cross-section. Their purpose is to support the hoisting equipment and rack the tubulars while tripping pipe. The number of joints in a stand (single-double-triple) that the rig can pull is dependent on the height of the derrick. . The Drawworks is one of the most important components of the drilling rig (types of drilling rigs). The unit supplies the hoisting power, the. . The Crown Blockas a drilling rig component is a fixed set of pulleys (called sheaves) located at the top of the derrick or mast, where the drilling line is threaded. The companion blocks to these pulleys are the traveling blocks. By using two sets of blocks in this fashion,. . The Traveling Blockis a set of sheaves (pulleys) that move up and down in the derrick. The drilling line is threaded (reeved) over the. . Attached to the bottom of the traveling blocks, the hook is required to hang the swivel and rig kelly(for drilling) and the elevator bales (for tripping pipe and casing). . • (#22) is a section of large diameter pipe fitted to the top of the that the attaches to via a side outlet, to allow the to flow back to the .• (BOPs) (#23 and #24) are devices installed at the wellhead to prevent fluids and gases from unintentionally escaping from the . #23 is the annular (often referred to as Hydril named after a manufacturer), and #24 is the pipe rams and blind rams. [pdf]