Patents Assigned to Integrated Drilling Equipment Company LLC
  • Drilling rig assembly method and apparatus
    Patent number: 8555564
    Abstract: A method to assemble a drilling rig includes providing a base structure of the drilling rig, stacking a rig floor including a derrick on the base structure, actuating lifting cylinders to lift the rig floor above the base structure, inserting at least one first upper box between the base structure and the rig floor, and retracting the lifting cylinders to set the rig floor atop the at least one first upper box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Integrated Drilling Equipment Company LLC
    Inventor: Philip Wasterval