Crown mounted compensator

How it works, how controlled, hydraulic or air operating system?

Compensator is the component that decreases the influence of the heave of a drilling
vessel on the drill bit. Crown mounted compensator is controlled by the driller. Air is
supplied by the air pressure vessels (APV) to the accumulator, which is filled with air
and fluid (oil in our case). This air moves fluid to the cylinders and compensator opens.
When there is no heave effect, compensator is not used & it is not opened. Once we have
heave effect due to which lets say rig starts jumping 3 m (e.g.), then we open
compensator for >3m to avoid string from being hit to ground or damaging crown
block.
12 ft

If in this case for example while drilling we have formation

hydraulics exerting 500 K and we want to apply more WOB, in
this case we open compensator more and decreasing the force of
the formation.
In the case if we run the casings and we have hydraulics of

500K

formation coming from bottom, but we cannot open compensator

further (it is limit 25 ft. and @ 25 ft. tool will be damaged), in this
case we should bleed of the air from the accumulator

Bleed-off valve

Air

500K
Working parameters?
Max compensated weight = 750 kips
Opening length = 25 ft max