US 12,378,827 B2
Pipe handling system
Alex Kunec, Conroe, TX (US); and Jason Crummel, Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to Nabors Drilling Technologies USA, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Filed by Nabors Drilling Technologies USA, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Filed on May 10, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/660,347.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/501,717, filed on May 12, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0376790 A1, Nov. 14, 2024
Int. Cl. E21B 19/08 (2006.01); E21B 19/15 (2006.01)
CPC E21B 19/08 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for performing a subterranean operation, the system comprising:
a base skid with a longitudinal recess;
a carrier configured to transport a tubular, wherein the carrier is configured to move between a stowed position with the carrier being in the longitudinal recess and a deployed position with the carrier being outside of the longitudinal recess, wherein a wheel at a far end of the carrier is configured to engage a first contoured surface, and wherein a direction of an inertia of the far end of the carrier is changed in response to engagement of the wheel with the first contoured surface; and
a lift arm with first and second ends, the first end being rotationally coupled to the carrier at a position on the carrier that is spaced away from the wheel, and the second end being slidably coupled to the base skid.