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Vertically integrated company

VAM Drilling is truly vertically integrated, providing drillstem products from the mill to the well. Unlike other drill pipe manufacturers, VAM Drilling, through its parent company V&M Tubes, has its own mills, ensuring continuous supply of raw materials and mitigating costs.

VAM Drilling receives green tubes from V&M Tubes’ mills in Saint-Saulve, France, Mülheim, Germany and Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Tubes are upset and heat-treated to the required specifications at VAM Drilling’s manufacturing plants in Europe and the United States. Tool joint forgings are supplied from V&M France and United States producers. They are machined and phosphated prior to friction welding in VAM Drilling plants in Houston and Aulnoye, France.

After tubes have been upset, heat-treated and then welded to the tool joint, the finished product is heat-treated, inspected and coated internally and externally before shipment. More than one-third of the production is for high performance products, such as VAM Drilling’s premium connections VAM Express™ and VAM EIS®, H2S-resistant materials or custom grades or wall thicknesses.

For bottom-hole assembly (BHA) components, VAM Drilling’s plant in Cosne-sur-Loire, France, manufactures its patented Hydroclean™ product line, kellys, heavy weight drill pipe, rotary subs, non-magnetic drill collars, M/LWD housings, spiral-grooved drill collars, slick collars, safety valves and more.