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Modern AC Land 40
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Content by the Nabors technical team: Ron Morrison, Senior Vice-President, NDUSA
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MAIN RIG 23. Fuel tank PRESSURE CONTROL SYSTEM
1. Crown block 24. Engine/generator sets 41. Annular blowout preventer
2. Mast, derrick 25. Variable frequency drive (VFD) house 42. Pipe rams
3. Drill pipe, triple stand & motor control center (MCC) 43. Blind rams
50 4. Monkey board 44. Choke line & valves
5. Gooseneck RIG FLOOR 45. Kill lines & valves
6. Traveling block 26. Drawworks 46. Drilling spool
7. Tubing board 27. Iron roughneck 47. Pipe rams
8. Top drive 28. Rotary table
51 9. Driller’s cabin 29. Mousehole, covered DOWNHOLE COMPONENTS
10. Standpipe 30. Standpipe manifold 48. Cellar
11. Mud-gas separator 31. Deadline anchor 49. Casing head
52 12. Mud pit, cuttings containment 32. AC motors
33. Winches
50. Cemented conductor
13. Flare pipes 51. Casing
14. Wireline spool 52. Drill pipe
15. Pipe racks FLUID SYSTEM 53. Bottomhole assembly
16. Catwalk with pipe skate 34. Choke manifold 54. Drillbit
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18. Hydraulic raising cylinder
35. Mud return line
36. Mud (shale) shakers
19. Substructure 37. Desander/desilter, mud cleaner
20. Parts house 38. Degasser
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22. Water tank 40. Mud pumps
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Mast, substructure AC drive Pipe handling 16

This poster depicts typical equipment being Developed in the early 1990s, alternating-current Automated systems provide a safer work
manufactured for mid-depth range drilling, drives were first used to drill offshore before being environment than manual and reduce potential 15
designed for mobility, drilling efficiency, safety, adapted for land. Troll A in the North Sea used for injuries. Automated pipe-handling equipment
and minimal environmental impact. These the world’s first AC drilling system. AC drives reduces the chance of dropped pipe, casing,
“fast-moving” rigs can be transported in offer more precise speed and torque control and and tubing used in drilling and completing wells.
predetermined loads that meet permitted quieter operation. The engine/generator sets 24 With a handheld remote control (a redundant
dimensions and weights for roads. No cranes provide power to the variable-frequency-drive control board is at the far end of the catwalk),
are needed for assembly (“self-erecting”); house. The VFD and MCC 25 feed the AC motors the driller directs mechanical arms to move
the telescoping derrick 2 and three-piece 32 that power the drawworks 26 . tubulars from the pipe racks 15 onto the catwalk
substructure are lifted by two hydraulic raising 16 . The skate moves individual tubulars up the
cylinders 18 . The substructure’s subbase 19 has pipe ramp (V-door) 17 to the drill floor.
removable girder sections to provide clearance
for the rig to be moved (skidded) along a row of
wells for cluster drilling (skids not shown here). 15