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Rig personnel
The typical drilling rig crew consists of a driller, two or three floorman or “roughnecks”, a derrickman and perhaps a motorman. The drilling operation is supervised by a drilling supervisor more often known as a drilling foreman or tool pusher, augmented by a drilling engineer, a wellsite geologist, a mud engineer and a mud logger.
The floorman do the hard work on the rig floor consists of mainly of making and breaking connections and adding or removing joints of drillpipe, while the derrickman assists the operation on the “monkey board” 60, 90 or 120 feet up in the derrick. The driller controls all the rig functions and handles the brakes from his console.
A single drilling crew normally works an 8-hour tour (pronounced “tower”) each day. However in remote or offshore locations a crew may work a 12-hour tour. When running casing a special casing crew is called in, or a drilling crew will work overtime to assists the next tower crew in the operation.
Typically, the tool pusher and the drilling crew will be employees of a drilling contractor, whereas the drilling engineer and wellsite geologist are employees of producing company or consultants.
Well drilling is a job that usually goes on twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, including most holidays. As a result the contactor must hire at least three or sometimes four complete crews. The people who work on rigs usually work in shifts. If the land rig is located near the city (thus allowing the crew to drive to and from work every day). But in remote areas, where distances to the rig are often measured in thousands of kilometers a crew cannot economically travel back and fourth every day, so, the contractor provides the comfortable, temporary living conditions. (The University of Texas, Huston, 1980)
Lesson 4
Rig components
Words to remember
- oil and gas production – добыча нефти и газа
- well – скважина
- hole – скважина, отверстие
- rig – установка
- to require – требовать, нуждаться
- a lot of – много
- convenient- удобный
- to divide – делить, разделять
- main- основной, главный
- power – мощность, энергия, сила
- hoisting system – талевая система
- to rotate – вращать
- internal combustion engine – двигатель внутреннего сгорания
- source – источник
- mover – двигатель
- traveling block –передвижной блок
- rope – канат, веревка, трос
- mast – мачта
- derrick – вышка
- string – колонна
- to rate – оценивать, классифицировать
- load – нагрузка
- to withstand – выдерживать
- side – сторона
- drawworks – лебедка
- capacity – мощность
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