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Grant Prideco, Inc. is a supplier of drill pipe and drill stem accessories headquartered in Houston, Texas.Since 2008, it has been a subsidiary of energy services company NOV Inc. Grant Prideco was included on the Fortune magazine top 1000 largest corporations for several years in the mid-2000s [1] [2] and through the 1990s and early 2000s was the world's largest oilfield drill pipe supplier.
The original part of the company, Smith Bits, grew out of a blacksmith shop in the small town of Whittier, California, in 1902. It was there, at the age of 20, that Herman C. Smith became the right man in the right place at the right time: oil was discovered nearby and the local drilling operators needed their fishtail bits sharpened.
Baker Hughes Company is an American global energy technology company co-headquartered in Houston, Texas and London, UK.As one of the world's largest oil field services, industrial and energy technology companies, it provides products and services to the oil and gas industry for exploration and production, as well as other energy and industrial applications.
A morse taper 3 arbor equipped magnetic drill machine using taper shank drill bits. The arbor or chuck on a magnetic drill is attached to the motor. It is a type of clamp used to attach the core drills. There are mainly two types of chuck available for the magnetic drill, industrial arbor (manual tightening) and quick change drill chucks. The ...
Gulf Brewing Co. brewed Grand Prize beer for a number of years. [3]: 141, 263 For a period of time in the 1940s to late-1950s, Hughes Tool owned the RKO companies, including RKO Pictures, RKO Studios, RKO Theatres, and the RKO Radio Network. In 1946, Hughes gave Noah Dietrich "full charge at Toolco." Dietrich hired Fred Ayers to bring order to ...
The Ocean Star was built in 1969 in Beaumont, Texas by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation (Hull Number 6845 [1]) for the Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company (ODECO) fleet. She worked in the Gulf of Mexico throughout the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast and drilled approximately 200 wells during her active life.
The Schramm T685 WS truck mounted drill bored a 5.5 inches (14 cm) hole that, on 22 August 2010, was the first to break through to the 33 trapped men, confirming they had survived the accident. [9] The company also manufactured the T130XD air core drilling rig owned by Geotec S.A., a Chilean-American joint venture drilling company.
*Electrical Distribution is estimated to be a $72 billion industry. . Total number of locations of NAED Members: 4,263; Total number of employees in NAED member companies: about 75,000 distributor employees; Average NAED member’s sales volume: $78,816,300; Median NAED member’s sales volume: $13,226,865; 40.4% of NAED members have a sales volume under $10 million; Source: NAED database ...