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7-Slip and Cut

1) The document provides guidelines for properly caring for and maintaining drill lines to maximize their lifetime and prevent incidents. It stresses performing risk assessments and communication for all tasks. 2) Specific care instructions are given for handling, operating, slipping, and cutting drill lines including protecting them from damage and debris, lubricating periodically, and maintaining proper wraps on the drum. 3) The process of regularly slipping and cutting lines helps distribute wear more evenly and prevent dangerous failures, though the rate should be calculated correctly based on ton miles to avoid waste or premature damage. Attachments provide a ton mile calculator and training is planned.

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7-Slip and Cut

1) The document provides guidelines for properly caring for and maintaining drill lines to maximize their lifetime and prevent incidents. It stresses performing risk assessments and communication for all tasks. 2) Specific care instructions are given for handling, operating, slipping, and cutting drill lines including protecting them from damage and debris, lubricating periodically, and maintaining proper wraps on the drum. 3) The process of regularly slipping and cutting lines helps distribute wear more evenly and prevent dangerous failures, though the rate should be calculated correctly based on ton miles to avoid waste or premature damage. Attachments provide a ton mile calculator and training is planned.

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PERFORMANCE OPTIMISATION GROUP LEARNING BULLETIN # 7

Drill line care / Slip and cut and Tasks involving the use of Drill Lines:

Due to successive issues and incidents with Drill lines on our rigs, this bulletin is issued as a reminder on how to care for the lines which will increase the
life time, this care should be given to the lines during handling, and operating as well as when slipping and cutting. In addition it is vitally important to
ensure the correct minimum number of dead wraps are maintained on the Drawworks Drum at all times and during all Operations, both routine and non-
routine.

It cannot be stressed strongly enough that ALL tasks should be Risk Assessed and communicated to all persons involved in a task through Pre tour and Pre
Task safety meetings. Failure to do so may result in incident and injury.

Care of wire rope:

1) Wire rope reel should be protected against mud and dirt/sand, planking the reel helps in protecting the rope against damage.
2) Wire should not be rolled over hard or sharp objects.
3) If a rope becomes covered with dirt/sand, it should be cleaned with a brush.
4) Wire ropes should not be struck with any object such as a steel hammers or crow bars.
5) Wire ropes are normally lubricated when manufactured, however, the lubrication may not last throughout the entire service life of the rope, therefore
periodically the rope will need to be field lubricated when necessary, lubricate the rope with a good grade of lubricant which will penetrate and
adhere to the rope, and which is free from acid or alkali.
6) Sudden, severe stresses and vibrations are injurious to the wire rope and such applications should be reduced to minimum.
7) Rope should be kept tightly and evenly wound on the drums.
8) After properly securing the wire rope in the drum socket, the number of excess or dead wraps or turns specified by the equipment manufacturer
should be maintained as a minimum.

During operation , heavy wear would occur in a few localized sections of the wires where the wire makes contact with the traveling block sheaves, crown
block sheaves when the slips are pulled going in or coming out of the hole, and on the drum where each wrap of rope crosses over the rope layer below.
Broken wires at these points of critical wear (more than 6 wires per rope lay) would result in the retirement of the damaged section.

Periodically slipping new rope into the system while cutting off old line at the drum end shifts the rope through these critical wear areas and distributes the

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wear more uniformly along the length of the rope, this operation is knows as Slip and Cut.

If too much wire rope is cut off frequently, there will be an obvious waste of usable drilling line, which will result in a higher than necessary rig operating
costs. However, if the rope is moved through the reeving system too slowly, due to incorrect calculation of “Ton Miles” sooner or later some section from
the drilling line will become worn and damaged to such an extent that there will be a danger of failure, injury to personnel, damage to equipment and
downtime.

For this reasons it is important that the drilling line be cut off at the correct rate.

For the evaluation for service from rotary drilling lines, the grand total of ton miles of work performed will be the sum of the ton-miles for all round trip and
short trip operations, the ton miles for all drilling and reaming operations, the ton miles for all coring operations, the ton miles for all casing, tubing and liner
setting operations, as well as Jarring operations. (for new rigs the number of ton miles per foot cut is usually in the range of 20-30 until a “history” of the rig
can be built up )

It must be remembered that in all cases, visual inspection of the wire rope must take precedence over any predetermined calculations.

Attached with the Bulletin there is a standard Ton mile calculator which all rigs should use to determine the Ton mile and POG is working on a training
session for slip and cut to be sent to all rigs with this bulletin.

For those rigs working with rig sense or similar software to calculate their ton miles it is still strongly recommended to calculate it using manual calculations
to verify their results.

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