Put a ring gauge on the first coupling that comes off a new lathe and it will almost always pass. Run that same machine...
Nobody buys a drill pipe joint and coupling lathe twice by accident. Shops that get this decision wrong usually find ou...
A wiped pin on a 5 1/2 in drill pipe arrives in the repair bay with three problems at once: galled thread crests, a sho...
Ten joints into a casing coupling run, a threading operator checks standoff with a gauge, gets a clean reading, and the...
A hardbanded tool joint that fails a bend test or a casing-wear check does not fail on the rig floor. It fails at the b...
Three 6-3/4 in drill collars scrapped in one week usually share the same cause: the bore drifted in the last meter, wal...