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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 06, 2015
Applicant:
Warrior Rig Technologies Limited, Calgary, CA;
Inventors:
Allan Stewart Richardson, The Woodlands, TX (US);
Monte Neil Wright, Calgary, CA;
Assignee:
Warrior Rig Technologies Limited, Calgary, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 19/15 (2006.01); E21B 19/14 (2006.01); E21B 19/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
E21B 19/14 (2013.01); E21B 19/155 (2013.01); E21B 19/16 (2013.01);
Abstract
A portable pipe handling apparatus and method includes providing a support structure adapted to support a pipe stand along a pipe stand building axis associated therewith, and inclining the pipe stand building axis so that an upper end of the axis is adjacent a top drive in a drilling rig mast and so that the pipe stand translation trajectory which is substantially co-axial with the pipe stand building axis intersects a hand-off window between the top drive and the pipe stand building axis.