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In this full length Offshore Oil & Gas Drilling User’s guide, you’ll gain valuable insight to help you choose the right wire ropes for your application, how to install wire ropes on a drill line, how to inspect your ropes, how to extend your rope’s service life through our cut-off program, and finally, how to identify and prevent common problems in the field. You will also find minimum breaking forces and weights for our offshore rope products

No single rope can do it all. In this reference document (an excerpt from the Oil & Gas Drilling User’s Guide), you will learn how the design properties of wire rope affects its performance. After all, with the many specialized procedures required for efficient well drilling, it is important to select ropes that are best suited for each individual application.

Union provides our customers an exclusive cut-off program that helps you maximize the service life of your drill lines. This Product Bulletin provides usage information for your cut-off program.

Service life of drilling lines can be increased dramatically by following a planned cut-off program based on work performed. In this reference document you will learn the guidelines for correctly exercising a cut-off program. Additionally, the official WireCo WorldGroup 10-Step Guide to a Drill Line Cut-Off Program chart is included.

In this product bulletin, you will find useful information regarding the proper installation, operation, setting casing and inspection of Drill Lines. It is important to maintain recommendations from API.

Proper installation and operation of your Union Drill Lines is essential to the success of your application. In this reference document you will learn the step-by-step guidelines to this proper installation and operation. Additionally, information regarding brass inserts on dead line anchors is included.

With proper precaution, you can identify, avoid and correct common problems with your wire rope in the field. In this reference document (an excerpt from the Oil & Gas Drilling User’s Guide), you will learn how to reduce crushing and scrubbing damage, factors affecting rope wear, field solutions, counterbalance grooving, improper grooving, improper tensioning and whipping.

In addition to careful rope inspection, you should perform these equipment inspections on a regular basis. In this reference document (an excerpt from the Oil & Gas Drilling User’s Guide), you will learn how checking your sheaves, drums, kick back plates, and rollers affect your rope performance as well.

In this Product Bulletin, learn the definition of Mast Raising Lines (also called Bull Lines or Bridle Lines). A chart specifying the classification of rope to use for given sizes is included.

The various lines for rotary and offshore drilling rigs require a complex balance of wire rope characteristics. In this reference document (an excerpt from the Oil & Gas Drilling User’s Guide), you will learn the Union wire rope recommendations for land rig, offshore rig and offshore crane appllications.

Make the most of your wire rope through regular inspections. Despite their durability and strength, wire ropes will eventually wear out and must be removed after a period of use. That’s why regular inspection is crucial. In this reference document (an excerpt from the Oil & Gas Drilling User’s Guide), you will learn how often to inspect your ropes, when to replace running ropes due to broken wires, when to replace standing ropes due to broken wires and how to find broken wires. Additionally, information regarding valley breaks are included.

We pride ourselves on providing robust solutions to our customers in the most demanding and diverse applications; with unmatched support, innovation and quality. When customers come to Union they are not just looking for a product, they are looking for our expertise and hands on approach to understand and resolve the issues they encounter in the field.

Union wire ropes reflect the people who make it. People of character, full of grit and determination. Tough-minded individuals who never cut corners or take shortcuts. We’ve matched science of design with the art of skillful manufacturing craftsmanship to build the best wire rope in the world.

No matter where you are in the world, Union delivers hard-working products, exceptional service and unmatched support. At Union, we’re with you in the field, on the rig and in the mine, getting our hands dirty to supply tough ropes that help you get the job done - better. Being part of the global leader, WireCo WorldGroup, our expertise is unmatched. Whether it"s manufacturing, design, troubleshooting or logistics, Union wire rope support is unsurpassed.

Union Wire Rope, a WireCo WorldGroup Brand, has been the industry leader in the design and manufacturing of wire ropes and assemblies for more than 100 years, delivering exceptional service and unmatched support worldwide.

Union has a rich history dating back to just before the United States entered World War I. Commodity prices were steadily increasing and headlines such as “Oil Prices Bound to Soar” were typical. Industries were experiencing shortages of supplies and rising prices. The lack of wire rope had become so acute that drilling and production of petroleum products were threatened.

Today, Union remains an industry leader in oil and gas, mining, crane and general-purpose ropes with technical support unmatched in the industry. The Union Cut-Off Program, which is designed to calculate, log and track the service life of Union drill lines is recognized by contractors around the world as the best in the industry.

Union wire ropes reflect the people who make it. People of character, full of grit and determination. Tough-minded individuals who never cut corners or take shortcuts. We’ve matched the science of design with the art of skilful manufacturing craftsmanship to build the best wire rope in the world.

No matter where you are in the world, Union delivers hard-working products, exceptional service and unmatched support. At Union, we’re with you in the field, on the rig and in the mine, getting our hands dirty to supply tough ropes that help you get the job done - better. Being part of the global leader, WireCo WorldGroup, our expertise is unmatched. Whether it"s manufacturing, design, troubleshooting or logistics, Union wire rope support is unsurpassed.

As the need to continually find ways to save on costs becomes more pressing, developing a wire rope cut-off program will ensure operators receive the maximum service life for drill lines. Researchers on a South African project recently found that the lifecycle of a wire rope can double when it is properly maintained and documented.

Although the inspection of wire rope is important, using only visual inspections for determining when to make a cut of the drill line can result in uneven wear, trouble with spooling and longer cuts. By using a digital cut-off program users can remove the heavily worn rope from use and introduce new rope from the storage reel.

Established more than 30 years ago, Union has overhauled its current CD digital cut-off program and has now developed a new, advanced USB computerised program that can calculate, log and track the service life of drill lines. In addition, the system can now be used in multiple languages and units of measure.

In this high-tech update from Union, operators can replace their paper notebooks and CDs with a specially designed USB flash drive that can be plugged into a computer and is compatible with both Windows and Apple operating systems. With the new ability to use the program in four languages (English, Spanish, Russian and Portuguese), companies can easily share results with co-workers around the world. Also, the ability to take units of measure in ton-miles, tonne-kilometres or megajoules limits the risk of errors in calculations.

Another feature of the new system is the ability to set ton-mile goals and monitor the goal results. The program calculates the ton-miles for each operation and provides recommendations on when to cut and how much rope should be cut.

When used with required visual inspections, Union"s new digital cut-off program can help provide the maximum service life from a drill line. Now exclusively for Union drill line users, the new digital format makes it far easier to send and save information, while protecting the data. Drilling contractors are now being encouraged to move towards new digital cut-off programs to get the most out of their drill lines.

An association between Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd. (BHP) and rope manufacturers in Great Britain led to the establishment in 1923 of a wire rope manufacturing facility in Newcastle. A new company was formed under the name, Australian Wire Rope Works.

A site was selected in Newcastle, and a state of the art factory was built, with advanced manufacturing equipment, producing ropes compliant with British standards. Rope manufacturing began in 1925 and in 1933 the company became a fully owned subsidiary of BHP.

After 1945, Australia entered a boom period. The economy developed strongly and in the 1950s the Wire Rope Works was involved in major nation building projects such as the Snowy Mountains Scheme. In 1958, BHP consolidated and Australian Wire Rope Works became part of Australian Wire Industries (AWI). The 1970s and 1980s mining boom required new, advanced machines and additional capacity, with the capability to produce rope up to 150mm diameter, in 60 tonne parcels.

In 2000, the Long Products steel division separated from BHP and OneSteel was formed. Recognising the key role of the rope business, OneSteel began making strategic investments, such as the installation of one of the world’s largest electronically controlled rope closers in 2002, capable of producing 200mm diameter rope, and the installation of specialist plastic infusion equipment in 2009.

In July 2012, OneSteel, as a listed company, was renamed Arrium. Concurrently the rope business was rebranded as Moly-Cop Ropes, and we became part of the global mining consumables business of Moly-Cop. In March 2015 Arrium Limited sold its Wire Ropes business to Bekaert, a Belgium based company, specialising in wire products and coatings. MolyCop ropes was rebranded as WRI Australia, representing the brand used by the Bekaert Ropes Group businesses of Wire Rope Industries in North America, who themselves have over 125 years’ experience in wire ropes solutions for the mining and industrial sectors.