Patent ID: 6857483
Filing Date: 2005-02-22
Classification: E21B

Abstract:
1. A drilling machine for exploratory and productive wells, comprising: a base; a top drive; a guide for guiding a movement of the top drive codirectionally with a longitudinal axis of said base; a gripper for at least one of gripping and guiding a drilling pipe, said gripper being moveable perpendicular to the base axis; a live ring connected to the base at a foot of said base; a rig floor, said live ring being affixed to said rig floor; a drawworks arranged below said rig floor, said drawworks including a cable guiding trolley; and an iron roughneck arranged one of on said rig floor and in a lower region of said base above said rig floor, said iron roughneck being one of slidably moveably mounted and pivotably moveably mounted.