Less than an hour from downtown Houston, the world’s petroleum capital, the Offshore Energy Center (OEC) operates its facility, the Ocean Star. This totally unique museum and learning center is located o.
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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.
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The mast is normally used on land drilling rig types requiring a good deal of mobility; they are rarely used on offshore rigs. The racking board is in a cantilever position and lengths of drill pipeare racked on a floor, called the setback, that is separate from the mast structure. Most masts have one side open (window side),. .
There are different types of masts for land drilling and service rigs: 1. Folding Type 2. Telescopic Masts 3. Bootstrap Type 4. Portable/Cantilivered masts (Non-Guy line) .
Figure 8 shows a telescopic mast. Telescopic masts with their drawworks and engines are usually mounted on trucks or trailers. The load should be borne by hydraulic or. .
Each structure shall be rated for the following applicable loading conditions. The following ratings do not include any allowance for impact. Acceleration, impact, setback, and wind loads will reduce the rated static hook load capacity. Technical specifications are identical to those for derricks: 1. Maximum hook load given the reeving system, 2. F. .
For conventional Mast (Land rig), the below pictures show the erection sequence of rigging up For rigging up the vertical mast, the below pictures show the bootstrap sequence of rigging up.
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