Patent ID: 6113334
Filing Date: 2000-09-05
Classification: E21B

Abstract:
Manoeuvre equipment for rods used in drilling plants, operating between an equipment for rod stowage and a service well from which each single rod can be taken out, and in which each single rod can be placed in, by means of a mobile motive head of the drilling tower of the plant, the stowage equipment including a plurality of containers defining a plurality of compartments opened towards the manoeuvre equipment and in which rod strings are tidily stowed in a vertical position, the manoeuvre equipment including one column rotating on a vertical column axis and the column, supporting rotatably integral with it, comprising:at least one pliers means to lock a single rod;means for translating said pliers means according to a vertical axis parallel to the column axis;means for translating said pliers means according to a horizontal axis substantially perpendicular to the column axis;means for adjusting the verticality of the rod locked by said pliers means; anda cabin for an operator supported by and rotatably integral with the column;wherein said cabin is located at approximately half the height of the column.