OCTG Premium Connection History

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    1930's
    The proprietary premium connection history is very interesting in the dedication of the Engineers and Scientist that created the greatly needed market that includes the safety of the environment and personnel.

    Basically the premium connection market started in the 1930’s. This is when the drillers wanted to complete their oil and gas wells deeper and the standard API connections were taxed on their capabilities. The ends of the pipe were hot forged and were mostly hot forged pin and box. This took very specialized equipment. Also because of the expense small businesses would have difficulty in creating a facility to compete. Therefore there was less than a handful of companies in the OCTG premium connection market. Very low amount of connection designs to choose from.

  2. 2
    1950's and 1960's
  3. 3
    1970's and 1980's
  4. 4
    Current