Dual offset derrick

• US 8,381,480 B2
• Filed: 06/15/2011
• Issued: 02/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Woolslayer Companies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Woolslayer Companies, Inc.
• Inventors: Vogt, Dewayne G., Gress, Jason P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Glessner, Brian
• Assistant Examiner(s): BARLOW, ADAM G
• Application Number:
  US13/160,940
• Publication Number:
  US 20110302869A1
• Time in Patent Office: 622 Days
• Field of Search: 5265101-65111, 526/33, 526/481, 526/521, 526/531, 526/532, 166 7511- 9754, 414 2251- 2271
• US Class Current: 52/651.05
• CPC Class Codes: E21B 15/00 Supports for the drilling machine, e.g. derricks or masts

Abstract

An oil derrick comprising a derrick tower, where the derrick tower is asymmetrical about its z axis in both x and y directions. The dual offset derrick tower structure allows for a unique drill floor arrangement.

Claims

1. An oil derrick with a forward or front end, an aft or back end, a starboard or right side, and a port or left side, comprising:

a derrick tower, where;

the derrick tower has four legs;

a back/left leg, a back/right leg, a front/left leg, and a front/right leg;

the derrick tower has a back face extending between the back/left leg and the back/right leg, where the back face is a vertical face;

the derrick tower has a right face extending between the back/right leg and the front/right leg, where the right face is a vertical face;

the derrick tower has a left face extending between the back/left leg and the front/left leg, where the left face has a top and a bottom and where the left face at least partially angles toward the right side such that the top of the left face is closer to the right face than the bottom of the left face; and

the derrick tower has a front face extending between the front/left leg and the front/right leg, where the front face has a top and a bottom and where the front face at least partially angles toward the back side such that the top of the front face is closer to the back face than the bottom of the front face; and

a well center line located closer to the back/right leg than to the back/left leg, the front/right leg, or the front/left leg.

2. The oil derrick of claim 1 further comprising a drilling floor located below the derrick tower, where the drilling floor includes:

a well center;

a setback area located generally forward of the well center and two-thirds of the floor length towards the left side;

drawworks located on the right side;

a dynamic brake located aft of the drawworks on the right side;

a driller'"'"'s station located forward of the drawworks on the right side; and

a spare line spool cantilevered off of the drill floor toward the left side of the front end.

3. The oil derrick of claim 2 where:

the derrick tower has four legs;

a back/left leg, a back/right leg, a front/left leg, and a front/right leg; and

the drawworks is arranged to suspend a drill string along a well centerline about one third of the floor length from the back/left derrick leg.

4. The oil derrick of claim 1 further comprising a setback area located within the derrick tower adjacent the left face.

5. The oil derrick of claim 4 where the setback area has a front end and a back end and where the setback area comprises a dedicated pipe racking area located on the back end of the setback area and a dedicated casing racking area located on the front end of the setback area.

6. The oil derrick of claim 5 where the dedicated pipe racking area and the dedicated casing racking area are located at different elevations within the derrick tower.

7. The oil derrick of claim 1 further comprising a drilling floor, where the drilling floor comprises a well center located directly over a borehole and directly below the well center line.

8. The oil derrick of claim 7 where the drilling floor further comprises drawworks located on the right side and outside the derrick tower.

9. The oil derrick of claim 7 where the drilling floor further comprises a v-door on the front side, a setback area located forward of the well center and two-thirds toward the left side, and provisions for offline stand building located adjacent to and forward of the setback area and outside a path between the v-door and the derrick tower.