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US 11,753,789 B2Granted
Pumping unit bases with driven piles
AssigneeWeatherford Technology Holdings, LLC
InventorsBrandon Lee Kadrmas, Clark E. Robison, Chuck Robert Bradley, Jordan Gerard Binstock, Travis Rice
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a pumping unit base and methods for operating with the pumping unit base. The pumping unit base may include a plurality of driven piles installed in the ground, and a metal platform fixedly attached to the plurality of driven piles, wherein the metal platform is positioned above the ground. The metal platform may be removed from the driven piles and reinstalled to the driven piles.
Claims20
A method for preparing a wellsite for production, comprising:
- installing a plurality of driven piles into the ground proximate a wellbore, each pile having a pile end;
- attaching a splice assembly on the pile end of each driven pile after each driven pile has been installed in the ground by attaching a ring of each splice assembly around an outer surface of the pile end of a respective one of the driven piles and attaching a disk of each splice assembly to a respective one the rings;
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- attaching a platform to the plurality of driven piles, the platform having a plurality of tubulars extending from the platform, each tubular having a tubular end, by attaching the disk of each splice assembly on each driven pile to an outer diameter of the tubular end of a respective tubular of the plurality of tubulars connected to the platform.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.