Atlas Copco Exploration Products

MO Wireline drill rods

MO wireline drill rods - designed for productivity and reliability

Retrieving core samples from great depths requires equipment you can trust. Unnecessary pulling of rods from these depths is time consuming and time is money. Atlas Copco drill rods are designed to deliver top level performance to your equipment and your drill site every day.
Atlas Copco wireline drill rods of the highest quality, are manufactured to exacting specifications using advanced machining technology. Combined with the industrys highest raw material specification standards and subsequent enhancement through sophisticated heat treatment, Atlas Copco MO wireline rods provide the balance you need to deliver top level economic performance and a superior productivity advantage at your deep hole drill site every time.

Quality to perform

Deep hole core drilling is disproportionately costlier than for shallow holes. The cost of quality can have enormous consequences on the profitability at a drill site. With this in mind, we are offering the MO thread, manufactured to exacting specifications using the industry's highest quality raw materials and advanced machining. Atlas Copco has zero tolerance towards compromising on material and workmanship quality in the design and manufacture of its products.
Upstream source - in-hole performance.

Atlas Copco and its customers benefit from and pay for industry leading quality. Only a few upstream raw material suppliers are able to meet the industrys most demanding raw material specifications; those required by Atlas Copco.

Seamless tubing seamless quality

Details that matter

Drilling deeper than 3,000 meters with NMO drill rods requires exceptional product made from top quality raw material. Seamless tubing gives you peace of mind for trouble free performance, even under very demanding conditions. Cold drawn seamless tubing provides reliable quality regardless of whether you use parallel wall or our variable wall internally upset drill rods. With its high adherence to dimensional quality control and elimination of all potential longitudinal separation failures, the seamless tubes outperform other tube manufacturing designs such as electro resistance welded.

Deep hole drillers benefit because Atlas Copco MO deep hole drill rods are manufactured from a metallurgically optimized 1541 grade of seamless tubing which consistently and substantially exceeds our own already elevated specifications for yield, tensile strength and other parameters. The MO deep hole drill rods are made of raw materials with superior ultimate yield and tensile strength values, which support the fatigue resistance required at the tool joints. In addition, the rods are made of raw material with a double standard, 1:6000, for straightness and ultra low residual hoop stress specifications, further improving material integrity.

Furthermore, the material requires a metallurgy which can deliver elevated mid body and tool joint mechanical property values made possible through heat treatment. Using a state of the art through-wall induction heat treatment process in the manufacture of seamless MO wireline drill rods, we ensure joint dimensional integrity by enhancing the ultimate mechanical properties of the tool joint area, before machining the MO thread.

Demanding core drilling applications requires a trusted combination of end user expertise with capital equipment, consumables as well as spare parts and service. Atlas Copco is a world class provider of industrial solutions and your logical choice for world class service and a complete range of industry leading deep hole core drilling rigs, diamond tools and tubular products.

Technical specifications

Overview technical specifications The following table summarizes relevant data for MO and CMO series wireline drill rods.
HMO Rated Maximum Depth (m) Outer Diameter (mm) Mid Body Inner Diameter (mm) Inner (Tool joint) Diameter (mm) Rod Weight per kg/3m Yield strength Min Tensile strength Min Joint traction to failure Joint torque to failure 1800* 88.9 77.8 34.7 HMCO 2100 88.9 80.9 77.8 27.4 NMO 2400* 69.9 60.3 23.8 740 Mpa 880 Mpa 102,033 kgf (NMO) 72,200 kgf/m (NMO) NCMO 2700 69.9 61.8 60.3 20.7 BMO 2700* 55.6 46.1 17.9 BCMO 3000 55.6 47.5 46.1 15.9

Factor of safety applied to depth capacities, which are based on straight vertical fluid filled holes. Third party destructive testing figures conducted on non heat treated drill rods are used for the baseline figures above. Atlas Copco also produce non heat treated rods when requested. Customers having their personal experiences using the products, particularly with heat treated tool joints, regularly exceed these ratings. Ensure that accessories, core barrels and other threaded connections properly mate with the selected tubular products.

Saving weight - enabling depths

In addition to standard MO rods for deep hole drilling, Atlas Copco also produces the CMO series. These internally upset rods are lighter in weight, allowing drilling companies to achieve greater depths without losing the MO threads outstanding capabilities. Atlas Copco internally upset 'CMO' series wireline rods maintain the normal outside diameter over its entire length and standard wall thickness at the threaded ends where it is required. The inside diameter gradually increases achieving a thinner wall thickness in the mid-body. The weight decrease offered by internally upset rod is as much as up to 21% for H, 13-11% for N and B sizes. The benefits for the end user are primarily that greater depths can be achieved in a nominal diameter. This provides greater flexibility in rig utilization and core barrel selection when the limitations of depth are determined by machine pull back force. Lighter drill rods are easier on people and machinery. A thinner mid body design provides a more flexible wireline drill rod when end users require the same.

Weight differential Parallel Wall versus Internal Upset Wall - kgs Description H 3.0m Drill rod N 3.0m Drill rod B 3.0m Drill rod MO Parallel Wall 34.7 23.8 17.9 CMO Internal Wall Upset 27.4 20.7 15.9 % Weight Decrease 21 13 11

The results are in...

Results of a Destructive test conducted in 2010 by independent third party.

Traction and torsion

120 000 100 000 80 000 60 000 40 000 20 000 0
Traction (lbs/ft) Torsion (lbs/in)

Traction Test (lbs/in) Torsion Test (lbs/ft)

NMO Drill Rod

The tests were conducted to provide a clear illustration of the high performance level of the MO drill rod.

Rated maximum depth (m)

3 000
Drilling depth, vertical down (m)

2 500 2 000 1 500 CMO Drill Rod 1 000 500 0 HMO HCMO NMO NCMO BMO BCMO MO Drill Rod

Recommended maximum depth (m) using an MO or CMO rod. A factor of safety applies to depth capacities. These are based on straight verticle and fluid filled holes.

Material and design in harmony

Critical balance

Atlas Copco deep hole MO wireline drill rods provide you with the optimum balance of design and practical features to keep your operating costs down. MO rods are for use in all conditions and applications where long service life is expected with trouble free reliability, ease of use and inherent strength. Just like with the 3300m field proven NMO thread, all MO drill rod threads provide a high-strength, high-pressure threaded connection as a minimum. MO series wireline rods are strong and robust to survive the pressures in repetitive deep drill holes.

Superior thread design

Acting as the conduit for the flushing medium, mating MO thread profiles provide a leak proof joint over changing depths with ease of use and long service life. The MO thread design is forgiving to the end user and makes it easy to stab, start, make and maintain joint pre-torque, and with a flat learning curve it is easy to learn to work with. Occurring at the molecular level on the drill rod pin end, without imparting additional risk of embrittlement, the Atlas Copco anti galling process completes the MO drill rod.

Critical design

Atlas Copco threads share sound general thread design characteristics. They are coarse, tapered, require pre-torque to overcome joint stand off and have multiple sealing and interference surfaces. The MO thread is a modified buttress designed thread with a positive yet almost perpendicular pressure flank angle that provides exceptional leak proof sealing and elevated pull back strength. The thread form ensures ease in keeping the joint clean, and maintains a consistent pretorque requirement with depth. The MO clearance flank angle is shallow, providing for thread joint durability. Its large manufacturing radii eases fatigue concentration, and the rods are as such well suited to higher bend radii found in deep deviated drilling. The MO thread and related MO adapters have a unique identification groove that will make identification easy, avoid mixing rods and adapters with others that may look similar but are incompatible. These two groove markings on the rod pin will also give an indication of the rod body wear. In addition, it will make it easier to identify joint location when breaking the joints.

Wireline drill rods

Description Parallel Wall Tubing - Metric system HMO Drill Rod NMO Drill Rod BMO Drill Rod Internally Upset Wall Tubing HCMO Drill Rod NCMO Drill Rod BCMO Drill Rod Parallel Wall Tubing - Imperial system HMO Drill Rod NMO Drill Rod BMO Drill Rod Internally Upset Wall Tubing HCMO Drill Rod NCMO Drill Rod BCMO Drill Rod 10ft 10ft 10ft 27.9 21.1 16.2 61.6 46.5 35.8 3760 0047 67 3760 0101 32 3760 0134 45 10ft 10ft 10ft 35.3 24.2 18.2 78.0 53.5 40.3 3760 0132 22 3760 0103 36 3760 0134 27 3m 3m 3m 27.4 20.7 15.9 60.4 45.6 35.1 3760 0134 39 3760 0126 36 3760 0134 44 3m 3m 3m 34.7 23.8 17.9 76.4 52.4 39.4 3760 0134 38 3760 0152 07 3760 0134 25 Length m Weight kg lbs Part number

Locking couplings and accessories

Description HMO Locking Coupling HMO Pin to BW Rod Pin Sub HMO Pin to NW Rod Pin Sub HMO Box to HW Casing Sub HMO Rod Recovery Tap HMO Hoisting Plug Adapter HW Casing Recovery Tap c.w HMO Box Weight kg 2.6 5.1 4.1 4.3 5.2 2.9 8.4 lbs 5.7 11.2 9.0 9.4 11.4 7.9 18.5 Part Number 3760 0119 09 3760 0134 40 3760 0134 41 3760 0129 99 3760 0048 11 3760 0152 50 3760 0048 12

NMO Locking Coupling NMO Pin to BW Rod Pin Sub NMO Pin to NW Rod Pin Sub NMO Box to NW Casing Sub NMO Rod Recovery Tap NMO Hoisting Plug Adapter NW Casing Recovery Tap c.w NMO Box BMO Locking Coupling BMO Pin to BW Rod Pin Sub BMO Pin to NW Rod Pin Sub BMO Box to BW Casing Sub BMO Rod Recovery Tap BMO Hoisting Plug Adapter BW Casing Recovery Tap c.w BMO Box

2.9 0.5 0.7 4.1 3.4 2.5 6.4 1.7 1.3 1.7 2.9 1.8 2.5 4.4

6.3 1.1 1.5 9.0 7.4 6.6 14.1 3.7 2.8 3.7 6.3 3.9 6.6 9.7

3760 0127 37 3760 0126 23 3760 0126 22 3760 0130 95 3760 0134 42 3760 0155 01 3760 0134 43 3760 0156 46 3760 0134 46 3760 0134 47 3760 0156 49 3760 0134 48 3760 0152 51 3760 0134 49

Adapters and subs

Description Drill rod pin to Drill rod pin NMO Rod pin - AW Rod pin HMO Rod pin - AW Rod pin Drill rod box to Casing pin BMO Rod box - BW Casing pin NMO Rod box - NW Casing pin HMO Rod box - NW Casing pin HMO Rod box - HW Casing pin HMO Rod box - HWT Casing pin HMO Rod box - PW Casing pin Drill rod box to Drill rod pin BMO Rod box - BW Rod pin BMO Rod box - NW Rod pin NMO Rod box - NW Rod pin HMO Rod box - NW Rod pin HMO Rod box - HW Rod pin HMO Rod box - HWT Rod pin Tubular crossover adapters BMO Rod box - BO Rod pin BO Rod box - BMO Rod pin BMO Rod box - BT Rod pin BT Rod box - BMO Rod pin NMO Rod box - NO Rod pin NO Rod box - NMO Rod pin NMO Rod box - NT Rod pin NT Rod box - NMO Rod pin HMO Rod box - HO Rod pin HO Rod box - HMO Rod pin HMO Rod box - HT Rod pin HT Rod box - HMO Rod pin Other adapter subs BMO Rod box - NW Rod box BMO Rod box - AW Rod box BMO Rod box - 4THD N Rod box NMO Rod box - 4THD N Rod box NMO Rod box - 2 3/8 " API box HMO Rod box - 2 3/8 " API box HMO Rod box - 2 7/8 " API box Impregnated rod shoes BMO Impregnated Rod shoe NMO Impregnated Rod shoe HMO Impregnated Rod shoe 1.0 1.2 1.5 2.2 2.6 3.3 3760 9055 90 3760 9055 91 3760 9055 92 1.9 1.9 1.9 2.1 2.1 4.6 4.6 4.2 4.2 4.2 4.6 4.6 10.1 10.1 3760 0157 00 3760 0152 63 3760 0152 60 3760 0155 04 3760 0155 03 3760 0155 02 3760 0152 61 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.7 1.7 1.7 1.7 3.3 3.3 3.3 3.3 3760 0156 40 3760 0156 45 3760 0152 58 3760 0152 59 3760 0130 97 3760 0130 94 3760 0127 38 3760 0127 61 3760 0157 12 3760 0152 62 3760 0155 11 3760 0102 41 1.3 2.2 2.4 4.1 4.2 4.2 2.8 4.8 5.3 9.0 9.2 9.2 3760 0156 98 3760 0156 99 3760 0126 24 3760 0157 04 3760 0155 08 3760 0157 42 2.9 4.1 4.3 4.3 4.3 4.3 6.4 9.0 9.5 9.5 9.5 9.5 3760 0156 49 3760 0130 95 3760 0155 07 3760 0129 99 3760 0155 09 3760 0155 06 1.3 4.1 2.8 9.0 3760 0153 68 3760 0157 44 Weight kg lbs Part number

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