Containment work platform with protruding connection
AssigneeIntegris Rentals, L.L.C.
InventorPierre L. Olivier
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Abstract
A support platform for enabling a worker to service an oil well next to a wellhead having a valve tree includes: a) a platform having an upper floor, a lower floor and a cellar in between the floors; b) a platform having a periphery, a central opening and radially extending beams; c) a plurality of walls attached to the periphery of the platform, said beams connecting to said walls below said upper floor; d) a drain that enables fluid to drain from the upper floor to the lower floor; e) a coupler that spans between the floors for enabling a connection to be made between the platform and valve tree; and f) a liquid guard or other provision that disallows the escape of fluid from a floor via the central opening.
Claims31
A support platform for enabling a worker to service an oil well next to a wellhead having a valve tree, comprising:
- a) a platform having an upper floor, a lower floor and a cellar in between the floors;
- b) the platform having a periphery that includes a plurality of platform corners, a central opening having a central vertical axis and a first plurality of radially extending beams, each beam of said first plurality of radially extending beams having an outer end portion connected to a platform corner and an inner end portion;
- c) a plurality of walls attached to the periphery of the platform, a second plurality of radially extending beams connecting to said walls below said upper floor;
- d) a drain that enables fluid to drain from the upper floor to the lower floor;
- e) a coupler that spans between the floors for enabling a connection to be made between the platform and valve tree;
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- f) a liquid guard that disallows the escape of fluid from a floor via the central opening.
A support platform for enabling a worker to service an oil well next to a wellhead having a valve tree, comprising:
- a) a platform having an upper floor, a lower floor and a cellar in between the floors;
- b) the platform having a periphery, a central opening and a plurality of radially extending beams;
- c) a plurality of walls attached to the periphery of the platform, said beams connecting to said walls below said upper floor;
- d) a drain that enables fluid to drain from the upper floor to the lower floor;
- e) a coupler that occupies the central opening and that spans between the floors, the coupler enabling a connection to be made between the platform and valve tree, the coupler extending above the upper floor and below the lower floor;
- f) wherein the plurality of radially extending beams includes a first plurality of beams, each beam of the first plurality attached at one beam end portion to said coupler and at another beam end portion to a platform corner;
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- g) wherein the plurality of radially extending beams includes a second plurality of beams, each beam of the second plurality of beams attached at one beam end portion to said coupler and at another beam end portion to a platform perimeter beam away from a platform corner.
A containment work platform, comprising:
- a) an upper floor, a lower floor, and a cellar in between the floors;
- b) an opening, interior beams, and a peripheral portion that includes peripheral beams;
- c) the peripheral portion of the platform forming a dam around the upper floor, and sealing the cellar at the platform periphery;
- d) a drain that enables fluid to drain from the upper floor to the lower floor;
- e) a coupler that spans between the floors for enabling a connection to be made between the platform and a valve tree;
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- f) a liquid guard that disallows the escape of fluid from the upper and lower floors via the opening.
A containment work platform, comprising:
- a) an upper floor, a lower floor, and a cellar in between the floors;
- b) a platform periphery, an opening, and beams, each beam having an upper surface connected to the upper floor and a lower surface;
- c) wherein the lower floor is spaced below the lower surface of at least some of the beams;
- d) a plurality of walls attached to the periphery of the platform;
- e) the platform periphery forming a dam around the upper floor, and sealing the cellar at the platform periphery;
- f) a drain that enables fluid to drain from the upper floor to the lower floor;
- g) a coupler that spans between the floors for enabling a connection to be made between the platform and a valve tree;
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- h) a liquid guard that disallows the escape of fluid from the upper and lower floors via the opening.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.