On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 21:10:04 -0700, "SteveB"
wrote:


"Harold & Susan Vordos" wrote

Thanks for the explanation of "joint". Again, likely an oil field term,
certainly nothing ever used where I worked, but then we didn't specialize
in
pipe, either.

Harold



Unless, of course, you are referring to a joint of drill pipe. In that
case, they are random lengths, IIRC, from 39 to 44 feet each, and I don't
know why they are uneven lengths. I have sent many hundreds of miles of it
up to the drill floor through the V door.

Perhaps Turtle knows the answer to the why of the uneven lengths.....

Steve

High kelly and a dull bit
Same old driller and the same old ****.

And I dont know why they come in random lengths either..though Ive
made enough trips to see several thousand miles of drill stem, and
measured every single last joint of it.

Gunner

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