Rotary Slips Care and Handling  

Rotary Slips Care and Handling
#Rig_Inspection_Workshop
Lifting and handling equipment checklist :
• Check that all drilling lifting equipment is visually inspected before use, as per API RP 8B Category I and Il.
• Ensure that all drilling lifting equipment is NDT-inspected, as per API RP 8B Category III every six months.
• Confirm that all chain hoists are inspected on a six-monthly basis and inspected before use.
• Check that sheaves and snatch-blocks are being removed from the derrick to be inspected on a regular basis.
• Check that all the drill string elevator IDs are measured every six months.
• Verify that the elevator links/bails are measured every six months. Follow OEM recommendations regarding load rating.
• Check that the slips, master bushings and safety clamps are inspected every six working months.
• Record the date of the last inspection of all drilling tubulars as well as the inspection criteria used (minimum as per API RP 7G).
• Record the date of the last inspection date of all the drilling subs and fishing tools.
• Are the preferred four-part shackles in use in the derrick?
• Verify that all shackles and slings are inspected every six months. All shackles and slings require to be certified.
• If the rig uses a colour code that is changed on a six-monthly rotation, is it correctly enforced?
• Check that the pad eyes have been load-tested and inspected as part of the six-monthly inspection programme (API RP 8B Category III).
• Pad eyes must be load-tested by the inspection authority and permanent SWL signs must be displayed next to the pad eyes.
• Confirm that no home-made spliced wire slings are used on the rig.
• Ensure that no home-made lifting eyes or drill pipe lifting subs are in use.
• Ensure that all the rig tongs, casing tongs and elevators are inspected every six months.