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Lars Otto Sannes

Nicolai Nilsen

Soeren Oeydna

Roy Birkeland

Per Inge Roensberg

Ellen Kolnes

Jarle Ropstad

Bjarne Larsen

A drilling rig includes a drill floor with a well center opening, a derrick having a drilling machine which is suspended above the well center opening, a pipe supply area which is arranged adjacent to the well center opening on the drill floor, and a pipe handling machine. The pipe supply area has at least one pipe rack which horizontally stores pipe sections. The pipe handling machine moves at least one of the pipe sections between a horizontal storage position in the at least one pipe rack and a vertical position or a substantially vertical position above the well center opening.

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HAMRESANDEN, Norway

Lars Otto Sannes