Badger ™

CASING CONNECTOR

The Next Generation

Critical Service Casing Connector
MEETS AND EXCEEDS SURFACE CASING REQUIRED FOR SEVERE SERVICE

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Badger ™ SPECIALTY CASING CONNECTORS

The Badger Connector delivers gas tight premium

performance while reducing rig time, casing installation
costs and risk.

A D VA N TA G E S A N D B E N E F I T S
• Metal gas-tight primary seal with elastomer
secondary seal for pressure containment and
long reliable field life

• Hands-free automatic anti-rotation device PIN

provides heavy duty lock on final torque

• Successfully tested with gas to ISO 13679:2017

CAL I-E/API 5C5:2017

• Extensive fatigue testing indicates industry’s

lowest Stress Amplification Factors (SAF) Optimized
Load Shoulder
• Greater than 100% pipe body ratings in internal
Environmental
pressure and bending Barrier Seal Hands-Free
Torque-Lock
Alignment Anti-Rotation
• Optimized thread form and robust internal and Profile
external shoulders delivers higher compressive
Fatigue
strength and industry tested best static capacity Resistant
Thread
• Backed by over 37 years of Dril-Quip Specialty BOX
Connector field proven performance Elastomer
Secondary Seal

Metal Seal

The Badger Connector has the lowest Stress Amplification

Factor (SAF) and longest fatigue life in the Industry.

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H A N D S F R E E TO R Q U E - L O C K A N T I - R OTAT I O N

The Badger Connector’s unique anti-rotation device

reduces installation time
and saves you money. PIN

• Factory installed robust and reliable

components Ratchet

• Automatically activates and locks the Rack

connector after final torque BOX
• No installation personnel and no special tools
required on rig floor

• Improves rig floor safety and reduces HSE risk

• Eliminates possibility of missing components,

dropped objects or damage to keys during
installation

• Reduced risk of problems and delays

Can Your Test machine validate

all of the data points?
Von Mises Yield Envelope of Typical 30” x 1.50” Specialty Connector
Traditional test fixtures found in some testing 12

facilities have limited load capacities and can Compression /

Internal pressure
11 Tension /
Internal pressure
not test the connector or pipe to its full capacity 10

range. Connector 8
Curve 7

In the example (right), the blue line indicates 5

required test points. The white area indicates the 4

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portion of the connector actually tested. Any 2

points in the gray area have not been tested. 1

The test connector limitations indicate that only

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-14 -12 -10 -8 -6 -4 -2 0 2 4 6 8 10 12
-1
Pipe
4 of 14, or 28% of the data points were actually -2 Curve

validation tested. FEA verification analysis must

-3

-4

be used to extrapolate beyond the validation Compression / -5 Tension /

External pressure External pressure
test point to estimate the rest of the connector -6

-7

capacity. This limitation leaves much of the Traditional

Machine Limits
Traditional
Machine Limits
connector test range untested.

Badger™ SPECIALTY CASING CONNECTORS

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 VA L I D AT I O N T E ST I N G
Dril-Quip has built its own Horizontal Test Machine because no known test fixture had the capability to validate all
of the required data to comply with ISO
13679. This machine is powerful enough
to deliver the loads required combined
with both internal and external pressure.
The Horizontal Test Machine is equipped
with hydraulic cylinders and a control
system that applies prescribed loads to a
test specimen. The machine is capable of
following loads:

• 20+ million ft-lbf of bending capacity

• 13+ million lbf of axial capacity
• Internal/external pressure and
associated pressure end loads to
equipment capacity
• Simultaneous application of various
combined load scenarios to the Dril-Quip’s Horizontal Test Machine
limits of the connector

Strain gauges, position sensors and pressure

transducers are strategically placed to Von Mises Yield Envelope of Typical 30” x 1.50” Specialty Connector
gather data while predefined system load 12
Tension /
Compression / 11
combinations are applied to the connector. Internal pressure 10
Internal pressure

User input to the machine is menu-based 9

Connector
and data files with tension or compression Curve
8

loads, bending loads, positions and timing 6

events are processed by the custom control 5

software.
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In the example graph, the blue line indicates 1

0
the ISO required test points. The white -14 -12 -10 -8 -6 -4 -2
-1
0 2 4 6 8 10 12

area indicates the portion of the connector -2

Pipe
actually tested. In this case all ISO data
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Curve
-4

points have been tested with Dril-Quip’s Compression / -5 Tension /

External pressure External pressure
Horizontal Test Machine. -6

-7
Traditional
Machine Limits
The corresponding results deliver a
Dril-Quip’s Horizontal Test Machine Limit
validation of all data points shown
confirming 100% of the data values required
by ISO 13679:2011 CAL I-E/API 5C5:2017 CAL
I. This assures no extrapolations are required
to validate the 3D FEA verification analysis of
the connector’s full capacity.
Badger™ SPECIALTY CASING CONNECTORS

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