TUBULAR MATERIAL HANDLING EQUIPMENT, a type of DRILLING EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS.
Tubular Material Handling Equipment are a type of Drilling Equipment and Materials. This subcategory encompasses devices used to handle tubular goods during drilling operations, and forms part of the wider drilling equipment grouping employed on both onshore and offshore rigs. In this context, tubular handling equipment is distinguished from well safety equipment, auxiliary drilling equipment, land blow?out preventers, subsea blow?out preventers and the structural derrick or mast. Instrumentation used for drilling, bottom?hole assembly components such as floating subs, lifting subs, Z?over subs and bit subs together with hole?openers, shock tools, stabilisers and reamers, hoists and winches (deadline anchors, travelling blocks, crown blocks, sheaves, swivels, hooks, hoist supports, mobile hoists and winches), handling tools (backsavers, safety stands, clamps, stabbing guides, tongs, bushings, slips and elevators) and joints and fittings like swivel joints and hammer valves are grouped separately. Engines and generators used for drilling activities and pumps for drilling mud and hydrocarbon fluids are listed under other equipment categories.