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US 11,959,381 B2Granted
Multipurpose drill system
AssigneeIntelligent Drilling Applications & Technology Pty Ltd
InventorsJeff William Branson, Warren Barry Fair, Steven John Payne, James Daniel Chomley, John Edward Kennedy, David Bruce Carnegie-Smith
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a multipurpose drill system, the multipurpose drill system comprising: a drilling rig adapted to drive a drilling assembly; and two or more power sources, wherein at least one of the two or more power sources is a high pressure power source, wherein the drilling assembly is adapted to be in communication with either or both of the two or more power sources.
Claims11
A multipurpose drill system, the multipurpose drill system comprising:
- a drilling rig adapted to drive a drilling assembly;
- two or more power sources in selective communication with the drilling assembly, the two or more power sources configured to deliver a fluid stream to the drilling assembly to flush drill cuttings generated by the drilling assembly, wherein at least one of the two or more power sources is a high pressure power source and at least one of the two or more power sources is a low pressure power source or a second high pressure power source,
- wherein the drilling rig is adapted to interchangeably receive at least rotary drilling assemblies and down the hole hammer drilling assemblies and where the drilling assembly is a down the hole hammer drilling assembly, the fluid stream further actuates a hammer assembly of the down the hole hammer drilling assembly.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.