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Engineering ahead of the curve: tubular technology for the next challenge

By Stephen Whitfield, Senior Editor A joint of drill pipe doesn’t experience a well construction program as one continuous job. It experiences it as a series of handoffs. It is manufactured to survive whatever the hole will do to it, gripped and torqued into connection by a wrench that has to make up thousands of …

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