Oil & Gas Machining


The impact on machine tool builders and suppliers of every- thing from the latest machining centers, CNC lathes, boring mills, and ancillary equipment will continue to drive develop- ments in their latest technology offerings.


Rig counts, which are closely watched to gage oil & gas in- dustry activity, have taken on new meaning. In the past, one rig typically meant one well. Today’s rig-count math is based in part on the latest technology of horizontal drilling, which multiplies the number of possible wells attached to each rig. One well may have three to five different horizontal shafts going off it.


Effi cient lights-out production of a wide range of dental tools such as endodontic reamers, Lindemann drills and dental burs with the GrindSmart®


Nano5. The smart choice


Weighing in at 50,000 lb (22,680 kg), the AZ-10 subsea tree is light enough to be handled safely with rig cranes, easily transported to the moon pool, and deployed for cost-saving completion of subsea wells in 5000 to 6000' (1525–1829 m) of water.


Since midyear 2013, for example, North American rig count, which includes all land-based rigs and subsea in the Gulf of Mexico, has pretty much remained on the low end of the 1700 and 1800 range. At the end of November, for ex- ample, 1709 rigs in operation would equate to over 9000 wells at about 5.4 wells per rig. Though the lion’s share of domes- tic rigs in Texas and the Southwest are single vertical shaft, converting these vertical shaft wells over to horizontal drilling


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