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Permalink Reply by Overshot on November 1, 2009 at 6:57pm

Maybe Gerald from Black Gold found a new job and "showed 'em how it was done"? ;->

My thought on this is similar to what Curtis has stated, but since the kelly bushing looks to be on the rotarty, rather than hitting a bridge and knockin' her loose on the way to bottom, maybe the brake let go or the automatic driller went out to lunch and just let the blocks free wheel, knockin' loose essentially the same way?

Permalink Reply by Overshot on November 1, 2009 at 6:58pm

Does bring a new appreciation to the expression "bent kelly" doesn't it?

Permalink Reply by Dale on November 4, 2009 at 2:40pm

yea guys i see it pretty much the same way! this driller was in a hurry either way i worked in colorado and wyoming for a long time and seen my share of drillers spudding the bit and unlatching the kelly! it all boils down to taking a little time and pride in what we do to keep these kind of worm bite away ,ill bet those floor hands were blowing out down both thier pant legs during this inncedent!

Permalink Reply by Overshot on November 4, 2009 at 5:22pm

LMAO!

Can you imagine that kelly swivel whipping around after the bail dropped out of the hook and before the driller got the rotary shut down!?

GANGWAY!!!

Permalink Reply by Overshot on November 5, 2009 at 2:34am

I'll bet that thing was bangin' and knockin' against anything big enough to hit! Must have sounded like the world was coming to an end! And I agree, that driller probably thought that very thought first and where he was gonna find a clean pair of pants second! Man I'd liked to have seen that and man am I glad I wasn't there on the floor!

I learned real early that bumpin' out of the hole was a bad, bad deal. The first time I was till working worm's corner and found myself thinking "we're really making time doing this". Couple weeks later I'm standing in as the chain hand, we broke connection on a stand of 8" dc's and the snub line came off the lead tong (had sheared the clamp bolt on the previous stand, no one noticed). That set of tongs came around and tossed me up against the draw works (15' away and I was still going up when I hit) and wrapped the worm up in the jerk line like a trussed pig. Driller thought he'd killed up both, fortunately nothing more that some badly bruised ribs and being scared to death. Seeing how fast those tongs could swing and how narrowly we escaped getting killed, that ended our adventures in bumpin' to break connections.

Natural selection at all it's ugly reality. We survived.

Permalink Reply by Drilling Ahead on January 15, 2011 at 12:26pm

Haha..on Nabors 196 (3000hp rig) when I was working derricks we had the daylight derrickhand double over our hitch to break out drilling. That rig had the longest kelly I ever saw and when you set it back in the shuck-coming down you had to stop half way down and wait for the blocks to swing back in to start back down.
Well the new driller didnt stop and bent the crap out of the kelly!-we tried and tried to straighten it!....haha...looked real good with string weight on it...but when we sat down on the slips it looked like a pretzel! We even put the tongs on the bent area and pulled with all she had...but it never did come back out.

It was one of those days that I was glad to learn something at someone elses expense-ever get new hard banding stuck in a rotating head?...hehe...that presented another problem...ended up laying down the rotating head and joint down together and sending it to the yard!

Permalink Reply by Jason M. Little on December 17, 2010 at 11:12am

He must have had his hand on that lever for a long time to raise the top section of the derrick that high to make the scoping rams bend like that,but although it is his fault it is a bad design.Most scoping rams i kave seen are one single 12-15 ram inthe center and back of the derrick.It makes it alot sturdy that way,but hear they have a dual smaller diameter setup that just buckled under pressure,but I am not saying that it wouldn't have buckled a single ram setup,but it might not have depending on the string weight

Permalink Reply by Darrell B Marsh on February 4, 2011 at 8:18am

Dont know if you will read this but it only takes a little time to lift the top section high enough to "unlock the dogs" it was the load of the string weight (when the driller picked up) that bent the rams...as I mentioned, good thing the driller had not yet opend the slips.

Darrell

Permalink Reply by Darrell B Marsh on February 4, 2011 at 8:28am

Well this happened in Libya and we had an all national crew on that rig at the time who were not familier with the iron they were running.......things have come a long way since the time of this incident. I am happy to say that was the last wreck we experienced in our operations. The team in the field has done a great job and certainly met the challenge to bring about change. (for the better) We passed the million hour no LTI mark last august Operating this workover rig and a 1500HP drilling rig.

Darrell

Permalink Reply by Anthony Waldrop on January 15, 2011 at 10:29am

its not a rotary but????/?

Permalink Reply by Raymond J. Dumontier on June 23, 2011 at 5:56am

pickle tool

Permalink Reply by william on February 27, 2011 at 6:44am

I worked on a rig like this we had problems with one side of the latchs and I had to go up with a sledge hammer to make it work.

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