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The entry-level workers are junior floor hands [6] called roughnecks; they do most of the heavy work on the rig floor, as well as hauling pipe, maintaining equipment and cleaning up. Derrickhands are more experienced workers who assemble the pump truck, monitor circulations and handle pipe and rods on the elevated tubing board. [ 7 ]
In 1985, they made their first haul to Prudhoe on the Dalton Highway. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Carlile developed an "approach" in transporting loads on the Dalton, which Harry McDonald described in a 2010 interview, that keeps his drivers safe, his trucks rolling, and gets the freight delivered on time and in one piece.
Oil train near La Crosse, Wisconsin. Petroleum transport is the transportation of petroleum and derivatives such as gasoline (). [1] Petroleum products are transported via rail cars, trucks, tanker vessels, and pipeline networks.
Its services focus on the specialized hauling of large oil rigs and worksite equipment. [54] Builders Transportation Co. - Builders operates a fleet of more than 300 company trucks and nearly 500 spread-axle trailers, hauling mostly in the eastern two-thirds of the United States. The company is solely focused on traditional flatbed operations ...
Catwalk: Elevated platform used for sliding pipe up to the rig floor. Chainhand (also motorman): An experienced laborer capable of maintaining most parts of the rig. The chainhand is in charge of throwing the chain to make up or break down pipe stands during tripping pipe. They are also responsible for maintaining the motors on the drilling rig
The first modular self-propelled trailers were built in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, heavy haulage company Mammoet [6] refined the concept into the form seen today. [7] They set the width of the modules at 2.44 m, so the modules would fit on an ISO container flatrack. They also added 360° steering. [8]
This Unit Rig BD30HD haul truck was assembled at Jacobs Ranch Mine and operated for 20,000 hours hauling 10 million tons of coal. It is now on display at the outdoor Energy Equipment Exhibit museum in Gillette, Wyoming. Unit Rig Lectra haul truck 143 is on display at the Wright Centennial Museum in Wright, Wyoming. Its gross empty weight is ...
Vacuum truck. A vacuum truck, vacuum tanker, vactor truck, vactor, vac-con truck, vac-con is a tank truck that has a pump and a tank. The pump is designed to pneumatically suck liquids, sludges, slurries, or the like from a location (often underground) into the tank of the truck.