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EasyLanding™

PRODUCT DEFINITION APPLICATIONS & CHALLENGES

A Landing String is a heavy duty As demand for energy continues to

thick wall drill pipe which can be
used not only for drilling, but also to
land heavy casing strings in the well
or heavy equipment on the sea bed.
A crush proof landing string is
designed to resist to the slip
crushing phenomenon; the slips are
a rig device used to grip the drill-
string and suspend it in the rotary
table.
increase, the search for vital energy
resources is expanding further
offshore into harsher and deeper
waters. In order to be able to set and
run larger and heavier casing
strings, traditionally, heavy duty drill
pipes are used as landing string in
order to perform such operations in
shallower waters. However
nowadays some operating
companies are pioneering
exploration and development
projects in water depths up to
12,000ft, which involves a large
number of technological challenges:
Landing String systems must be
capable of landing heavy loads while
ensuring the absence of damage
due to the slips. Under extremely
heavy loads, such as the ones seen
during deepwater operations, the
slips can damage the pipes, and in
the worst case scenario might even
completely crush the pipe section;
this phenomenon is called "slip
crushing".

PERFORMANCE

Vallourec Drilling Products' EasyLanding™ products offer a variety of drill pipe-

based designs for non-slip crushing resistant landing strings: typically those
landing strings exhibit large OD (up to 6-5/8"), proprietary high strength steel
grades such as VM-150 DP & VM-165 DP, and heavy wall sections (up to 0.938"
wall).

BENEFITS

Vallourec has been designing and manufacturing these types of strings for over 10
years in nominal sizes of 5" or larger and with wall thicknesses that exceed 1".
We can provide high performance fit-for-purpose solutions for various offshore
challenges. Running casing and subsea equipment installations has never been
safer or more reliable.

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