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Traceability
Material and process traceability are maintained for each Heavy
Weight Drill Pipe product. The Heavy Weight Drill Pipe is given
a permanent identification number through its manufacturing process
which is traceable to the original mill testing.
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Cold Rolling
Drill pipe undergoes cyclic, tensile and compressive stresses during
drilling operations. These cyclic stresses are mainly focused on
the connection thread roots and can cause pipe failure. This stress
is reduced by cold rolling the thread roots on every piece of heavy
weight drill pipe.
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Phosphate Coating
All new threads are hot phosphate coated to aid in reducing galling
and adhesion of the thread compound.
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Stress Relief Features
As needed on connections of NC-38 and up stress relief features
on both pin and box connections can be machined.
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