Moving and adjusting the drill string may be routine procedure for extraction operations, but it’s also a risky process that exposes both workers and equipment to potential risk. Strings not only support expensive and delicate equipment, they can also exert a massive amount of pressure on handling tools due to their sheer size and weight. […]
Makeup and Breakout: Everything You Need to Know about Tubing Tongs
Tubing tongs may have a simple design compared to other types of drilling equipment, but don’t let that fool you—they are powerful and essential tools that provide critical support to drilling operations on a daily basis. important Essentially, tubing tongs provide stability and allow workers to better handle tubular components. All drilling operations should be equipped […]
Your Guide to Safety Clamps
Now that you have a better understanding of the use of slips on the drill floor, it’s time for safety clamps to enter the scene. Similar to their wedge-shaped counterparts, safety clamps serve as a backup safety mechanism for slips and other gripping devices to further safeguard against drill pipe slippage and to provide more […]
Torque vs. Energy
For many of us working in the energy industry, the fundamentals of physics have practical and essential applications in our day-to-day operations. There are dozens of different terms and measurements applied during extraction, refinement and transportation operations, and while some of these are the result of advanced calculations, all of them are based on simple […]
Take a Stab at it: Stabbing Guide 101
Have you ever tried to screw two small pieces of threaded pipe together with your hands? Pretty simple right? Now picture this process on a drilling rig, if the two pieces aren’t lined up, you could damage the threads or the pipe coupling, causing costly damage and downtime. This is where stabbing guides come into […]
Get a grip! Using Slips
As their namesake suggests, slips are designed to help keep drill pipe from slipping down into the hole or to hold pipe in place. Small but mighty, these specially-designed gripping tools are carefully engineered to handle delicate and dangerous pipes in high-risk environments like drilling rigs. Slips are wedge-shaped tools that wrap around the drill […]
Rubber Stabbing Guides
Ramey Martin releases its own product line of oil resistant rubber stabbing guides. […]
Opens for business in New Iberia, LA
Ramey Martin Energy Tools officially opens for business in New Iberia, La. […]