Sentences with phrase «drill pipe»

The four - man hard - hatted crew works in perfect synchrony, joining 90 - foot sections of drilling pipe with massive orange wrenches.

• Highly experienced in performing regular drilling operations including drilling pipes connections and digging ditches and handling mechanical repairs.

Loading and unloading drill pipe on to and from pipe racks and staged areas containing tools, drill bits, drill collars, elevators using a front end loader

Participated in extensive training sessions and continuing education for drill pipe thread inspection.

Workers at the plant cheered when the United States imposed anti-dumping duties on Chinese drilling pipe in 2009 and 2011.

Rig hands thread together drilling pipe at a hydraulic fracturing site owned by EQT Corp. located atop the Marcellus shale rock formation in Washington Township, Pennsylvania.

When the Deepwater Horizon drilling pipe blew out seven years ago, beginning the worst oil spill in U.S. history, those in charge of the recovery discovered a new wrinkle: the millions of gallons of oil bubbling from the sea floor weren't all collecting on the surface where it could be skimmed or burned.

Connecting and disconnecting of drill string using hydraulic powered tongs, drill bits, drill collars racking back drill pipe into slots located on the board in the derrick and setting test pumps down hole in a timely manner safely and efficiently for contractors and customers.

Extensive experience designing offshore platforms, modular drilling rigs, drilling barges, drilling structures, drilling pipe barn, semi-submersibles, jackups and compressor station buildings.

The downhole hammer attaches to the end of a column of drill pipe and cuts through rock with a rapid hammering action similar to that of a jackhammer.

Duties included assisting in maintenance and cleaning of drilling rig and lease, drilling pipe connections.

Transporting sand, drilling pipe, and crude oil furnished only 4.5 % of UP's volumes at the peak in 2014.

Ty Wright Bloomberg Getty Images A rig hand removes a drill pipe from a natural gas well at a fracking site in Washington Township, Pa..

We had just pulled up our drill pipe, replaced its worn drill bit, and lowered it back down to the seafloor, a mile under our ship.

At the bottom of the device are shear valves or rams designed to cut through the drill pipe and block off any oil flowing inside the pipe or through the surrounding well casing.

Higher up the stack, annular rams are clamped onto the outside of the drill pipe, to reduce oil flow by tightening the ring - shaped space between the outer well casing and the inner drill pipe.

Remote sensing from the end of the drill pipe — acoustic or electromagnetic — lets drillers home in on the steel - cased target well.

Although such a shape probably doesn't make sense for a bridge, it could work for things like antennae, lampposts, chimneys, underwater oil - drilling pipes, sky - scrapers and even golf clubs.

Although those samples showed microbial life, there were questions about the drilling technique that used kerosene to help keep the drill pipe pressurized.

«Deepwater Horizon» begins with a tracking shot along a drilling pipe plunging seemingly forever downward into the sea.

Film Review by Kam Williams Spectacular Disaster Flick Depicts Real - Life Events Surrounding BP Oil Spill On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, located 41 miles off the coast of Louisiana, exploded when high - pressure methane gas blew out the drill pipe.

This would cause fractures to form allowing oil and gas to flow into the drilling pipe.

A Canadian panel that evaluated fracking focused, among other things, on the difficulty of effectively sealing wells with cement around the drill pipe, both during production and once they're abandoned.

We were locally impacted as field workers Roughnecks on a drilling rig in Greely, CO use metal tongs weighing hundreds of pounds to make connections between 30» sections of drill pipe.