At a Glance
Raising The Bar On
Offshore Oil-Rig Pipe
Testing
• Project: Raising the Bar on Oil-Rig
• Solution: develop a manufacturing
Pipe Connection Testing
• Company: Dril-Quip Inc.
• Location: Houston, Texas
• Challenge: Test under real world
conditions
test system producing real world
forces
• Benefits: Dril-Quip’s customers can
have improved confidence that the
company’s products will be among
the safest available for use in
offshore wells.
Summary: Undersea oil well pipe stands undergo tremendous
tension and bending stresses in operation, and manufacturers of
pipes and pipe connectors need to employ rigorous tests to make
sure that their products will last and not leak when subjected to tidal
and storm forces.
Challenge: More complete testing of real world integrated pipe
assemblies.
Solution: Develop a manufacturing test system that is capable of
producing millions of pounds of bending and tension forces on an
assembled pipe stand.
Benefits: Before the development of the Dril-Quip test stand, there
was no system available that could adequately simulate the realworld forces by applying tension and bending simultaneously, plus
supplying internal pressures that could be encountered by undersea
wellheads. Now that the test system is available; Dril-Quip’s
customers can have improved confidence that the company’s
products will be among the safest available for use in offshore wells.
"We saw that using Delta's RMC150 eight-axis motion controller could
save us a lot of time and effort in implementing our hydraulic controls,"
said Mike Lynch, PE, Dril-Quip Sr. Scientist Engineer.
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