a series of tubes (joined by screwed collars) that connect a drilling platform to the drilling bit; rotates the bit and supplies drilling mud
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Examples of drilling pipe
drilling pipe
Rigs must be bigger so they can hold more drilling pipe to stretch vast distances.
From the online.wsj.com
Their training sessions contemplated a blowout coming up through only the drilling pipe.
From the heraldtribune.com
The oil is escaping from two leaks in a drilling pipe about 5,000 feet below the surface.
From the bostonherald.com
It also uses flexible drilling pipe rather than the rigid sections of pipe many operators still use.
From the businessweek.com
What if the drilling pipe were to fall?
From the sacbee.com
A 2002 study for the Minerals Management Service warned of such trouble in shearing drilling pipe deep underwater.
From the cnn.com
Despite early hopes that the oil spill could be minimized, the rig's fractured drilling pipe is currently leaking 42,000 gal.
From the time.com
Richard Best, an account representative, showed the new spiral centralizers, which are wrapped around a drilling pipe like threads of a screw.
From the theepochtimes.com
The oil, which could reach shore in as little as three days, is escaping from two leaks in a drilling pipe about 5,000 feet below the surface.
From the thenewstribune.com
