A drilling rig is an integrated system that drills wells, such as oil or water wells.
Drilling rigs can be massive structures housing equipment used to drill water wells, oil wells, or natural gas extraction wells, or they can be small enough to be moved manually by one person.
Drilling rigs can be mobile equipment mounted on trucks, tracks or trailers, or more permanent land or marinebased
structures (such as oil platforms, commonly called ‘offshore oil rigs’ even if they don’t contain a drilling
RIG generally refers to the complex equipment that is used to penetrate the surface of the Earth’s.
A drilling rig is a machine which creates holes (usually called boreholes) in the ground. Drilling rigs can be massive structures housing equipment used to drill water wells, oil wells, or natural gas wells
Oil well drilling is a complex operation and the drilling industry engages the services of personnel
Drilling Rig Equipment Systems Components
There are 4 main systems on a drilling rig:
HOISTING & ROTATION SYSTEM
POWER GENERATION SYSTEM
MUD CIRCULATING SYSTEM
WELL CONTROL SYSTEM
