Herrenknecht Vertical Gmbh

Andrej Nadan

Jürgen Binder

Dirk Alfermann

David Schwarzwälder

Robert Kuschel

David Schwarzwalder

Juergen Binder

Bernd Wundes

Jurgen Binder

The invention relates to a pipe store for supplying and discharging pipe bodies, in particular drill rods, casing pipes, and/or drill-string parts, such as drill collars, drilling motors or the like, to and from a drilling rig for creating deep wells, having a basic structure, having at least one framework which is provided in the form of a transporting and storage framework for pipe bodies and in which a plurality of pipe bodies are arranged to form a load, and having a removal apparatus for removing the pipe bodies from the framework and supplying the pipe bodies into the framework, characterized in that the basic structure has at least two accommodating portions for accommodating the framework in an essentially horizontal arrangement, in that, following insertion into the accommodating portion, the framework is fastened in a rotatable manner therein, and can be transferred from a horizontal orientation into a vertical orientation by means of a lifting element, in that each of the pipe bodies can be individually removed from the framework, or inserted into the same, in the vertical position by the removal apparatus, and in that the removal apparatus can be displaced along the basic structure in front of the individual portions.

Pipe rack and method for feeding and removing tubular bodies to and from a drilling installation

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Ettenheim, Germany

Andrej Nadan