“We specialize in manufacturing really big drifts."

3DP Tubular Products manufactures large, lightweight 3D-printed drifts for oil and gas tubing, casing, and specialty pipe applications. Our advanced polymer drift mandrels provide a safer, easier-to-handle alternative to traditional steel, PTFE, and heavy resin drifts.

We specialize in manufacturing oversized API drifts, special drifts, and custom lightweight casing drifts—including large sizes that are difficult, expensive, or impractical to manufacture with conventional methods.

Whether your operation requires horizontal drifting, vertical drifting, field inspection, pipe-yard verification, or a custom special-drift dimension, 3DP can manufacture a drift for your application.

Our lightweight casing drifts can be manufactured to standard API drift dimensional requirements or to customer-specified special-drift dimensions.

We produce:

• API casing drifts
• API tubing drifts
• Large special drifts
• Oversized casing drifts
• Custom-diameter drift mandrels
• Lightweight oilfield drifts
• 3D-printed polymer drifts
• Drifts for horizontal pipe inspection
• Drifts for vertical casing and tubing inspection
• Drifts for coated and premium casing
• Alternative and nonstandard drift sizes

Provide the casing or tubing size, weight per foot, required drift diameter, drift length, connection type, and operating method. Our team can manufacture the drift to match your inspection requirements.

3DP uses large-format additive manufacturing to produce extremely large, lightweight special drifts without the weight and handling limitations associated with steel drift mandrels.

Our manufacturing process allows us to build oversized drifts for large-diameter oil and gas casing while maintaining a practical weight for transportation, field handling, horizontal drifting, and vertical drifting.

Instead of forcing crews to lift, position, pull, or retrieve an extremely heavy steel drift, operators can use a substantially lighter polymer drift designed for the same dimensional verification task.

Our large-format manufacturing capability is especially valuable for:

• Large-diameter casing
• Offshore casing operations
• Custom completion clearances
• Nonstandard pipe dimensions
• Special-drift requirements
• Coated casing and tubing
• Premium connections
• Drifts that require custom lengths or profiles
• One-off and low-volume drift orders

When conventional manufacturers say a special drift is too large, too heavy, or too difficult to produce, contact 3DP.

Traditional steel drifts can be extremely heavy, especially as casing diameter and drift length increase. Heavy drift mandrels create additional lifting, transportation, dropped-object, and manual-handling concerns.

Conventional resin and PTFE drifts may reduce weight compared with steel, but large resin drifts can still become heavy, expensive, and difficult to manufacture.

3DP's 3D-printed ASA polymer drifts are engineered to reduce drift weight while maintaining the geometry required for dependable pass-or-fail casing and tubing verification.

Our lightweight construction can help:

• Reduce operator fatigue
• Reduce manual-handling demands
• Make large drifts easier to transport
• Simplify positioning at the end of the pipe
• Improve handling during horizontal drifting
• Improve retrieval during vertical drifting
• Reduce the need for heavy lifting equipment
• Lower dropped-object exposure
• Reduce the risk of damage to expensive pipe surfaces

For operations searching for a drift that is lighter than steel and easier to handle than many conventional resin drifts, 3DP provides a modern alternative.

Steel drifts can strike, scrape, or damage sensitive pipe surfaces if they are dropped, pulled incorrectly, or allowed to contact the connection area.

3DP manufactures nonmetallic polymer drift mandrels designed to reduce the risk of damage to:

• Casing threads
• Tubing threads
• Thread protectors
• Internal pipe coatings
• Corrosion-resistant coatings
• Premium connections
• Finished internal surfaces
• Pipe ends and coupling areas

This makes our lightweight drifts particularly useful for coated casing, premium tubular products, and applications where protecting the pipe is just as important as verifying its internal clearance.

Large lightweight drifts are also well suited for vertical casing and tubing inspection.

Their reduced weight makes them easier to lift, lower, retrieve, and control compared with large steel drift mandrels. 3DP can manufacture drifts with attachment points and dimensions suited to your vertical drifting procedure.

Our polymer drifts are used for applications where operators need to verify internal clearance without introducing an unnecessarily heavy steel tool into the operation.

3DP manufactures lightweight drift mandrels for horizontal drifting in pipe yards, manufacturing facilities, inspection areas, and field locations.

Because the drift weighs considerably less than a comparable steel drift, crews can more easily position the drift, connect the pulling line, pass it through the pipe, and prepare it for the next joint.

Our drifts can be configured with pulling or lifting points at both ends when required, allowing the drift to be retrieved or pulled in either direction.

Applications include:

• Casing-yard drifting
• Tubing inspection
• Pipe manufacturing inspection
• Field-service drifting
• Drift-and-tally operations
• Coated-pipe inspection
• Horizontal casing verification

Additive manufacturing gives 3DP the ability to produce custom drift designs that may be difficult to manufacture using traditional machining or molding methods.

Available custom features may include:

• Customer-specified outside diameters
• API and special-drift dimensions
• Custom drift lengths
• Tapered leading and trailing ends
• Rounded or application-specific profiles
• Pulling points on both ends
• Replaceable wear components
• Identification markings
• Company names or logos
• Serial numbers
• High-visibility colors
• Special geometries for unique pipe applications

We manufacture standard, oversized, and one-of-a-kind drifts without requiring the expensive tooling normally associated with molded products.

3DP manufactures oversized, alternative, and special drift mandrels for oil country tubular goods, including casing, tubing, conductor pipe, large-bore pipe, internally coated casing, and premium tubular products.

Many standard casing drifts can be purchased through conventional oilfield suppliers. Large-diameter, nonstandard, and project-specific drifts are often much more difficult to source.

Our large-format additive manufacturing process allows 3DP to manufacture extremely large, lightweight polymer drift mandrels without creating the excessive weight commonly associated with steel, solid resin, or conventionally machined large-diameter drifts.

We support customer requirements based on:

• API drift dimensions
• Alternative drift dimensions
• Special drift dimensions
• Customer engineering drawings
• Minimum inside-diameter requirements
• Minimum pass-through diameters
• Pipe-body clearance requirements
• Connection clearance requirements
• Project-specific inspection procedures
• Operator specifications
• Purchase-order descriptions
• Downhole equipment tool-envelope dimensions

Whether your company calls the product a casing drift, tubing drift, drift mandrel, pipe rabbit, casing rabbit, pass-through gauge, minimum-ID gauge, clearance mandrel, or special pipe gauge, 3DP can evaluate your requirement.

3DP can evaluate requests for extremely large drift mandrels, including:

• 22-inch casing drifts
• 28-inch casing drifts
• 30-inch conductor-pipe drifts
• 36-inch casing or conductor drifts
• Oversized OCTG drifts
• Large-bore casing drifts
• Large-bore pipe rabbits
• Custom-diameter clearance gauges
• Nonstandard pass-through mandrels
• Customer-specified special drifts

These large sizes may be required for conductor casing, structural tubulars, offshore applications, large-bore well construction, specialty pipe, and other operations where conventional catalog drift sizes are unavailable. Our ability to manufacture large drifts through additive manufacturing gives oil and gas companies another option when a conventional drift would be excessively heavy, expensive, difficult to manufacture, or unavailable in the required dimensions.

Conductor pipe and oversized casing may require a drift that cannot be purchased from a standard oilfield-tool catalog.

3DP can manufacture a custom conductor-pipe drift or large-bore drift based on:

• Pipe outside diameter
• Pipe weight per foot
• Wall thickness
• Nominal or actual inside diameter
• Required minimum pass-through diameter
• Required drift outside diameter
• Cylindrical drift length
• Overall drift length
• Connection dimensions
• Internal coating or liner
• Pulling direction
• Horizontal or vertical use
• Customer inspection procedure

Our manufacturing process is well suited to one-off requirements, limited production quantities, unusual dimensions, replacement drift mandrels, prototype tools, and large sizes that would otherwise require expensive molds, extensive machining, or dedicated tooling.

The weight of a conventional steel drift increases rapidly as its diameter and length increase. At very large sizes, the drift itself can become a significant transportation, lifting, and handling problem. Large solid or heavily constructed resin drifts can also become difficult to lift, position, and maneuver. 3DP uses engineered 3D-printed polymer construction to reduce unnecessary material and weight while maintaining the customer-specified drift geometry.

A lightweight oversized drift can make it easier to:

• Position the drift at the pipe opening
• Move the drift between pipe joints
• Transport the drift around a pipe yard
• Load and unload the drift
• Pull it through horizontal casing
• Lower and retrieve it through vertical casing
• Guide it through the pipe connection
• Reduce repeated heavy manual handling
• Reduce operator fatigue
• Reduce reliance on lifting equipment
• Limit metal-to-metal contact with the pipe
• Reduce dropped-object exposure

This can be particularly valuable during high-volume inspection work where operators must repeatedly handle the drift throughout a shift.

Different applications may require different types of drift dimensions.

An API-dimensional drift may be selected when the pipe is being inspected using the applicable standard dimensional requirements identified by the purchaser. An alternative drift may be required when the minimum pass-through diameter or cylindrical length differs from the commonly used standard drift dimensions.

A special drift may be required when the project calls for:

• A nonstandard outside diameter
• A longer cylindrical drift section
• A custom overall length
• A special taper or transition
• A unique end profile
• A clearance requirement based on downhole equipment
• A customer-defined minimum inside diameter
• A specific connection clearance
• A project-specific pass-through requirement
• An unusual pipe weight or wall thickness
• A one-time inspection tool

3DP can manufacture from a customer drawing, dimensional table, mill specification, operator requirement, engineering calculation, approved sample, or written purchase specification.

Depending on the inspection procedure, the purchaser may need to verify clearance through the complete pipe body, through the connection area, or through a specific area affected by end forming, threading, coupling installation, or pipe processing.

3DP can manufacture drift mandrels for use in:

• Full-length pipe drifting
• Full-joint casing drifting
• End drifting
• Pipe-body ID verification
• Connection-area clearance checks
• Plain-end pipe inspection
• Threaded and coupled pipe inspection
• Box-to-pin drifting
• Pass-through inspection after pipe processing
• Customer-defined acceptance testing

The responsible engineer, operator, purchaser, or inspection organization should identify the required drift dimensions and acceptance procedure.

Engineers, pipe manufacturers, operators, and international purchasing organizations may describe drifting as verifying free passage or minimum internal clearance through the pipe.

Search terms and purchase descriptions may include:

• Minimum-ID verification tool
• Minimum pass-through diameter gauge
• Free-pass gauge
• Free-pass ID mandrel
• Full-bore clearance gauge
• Internal bore restriction gauge
• Pipe-body clearance tool
• Pipe and connection clearance mandrel
• Tool passage clearance gauge
• Tubular deformation gauge
• Unobstructed pipe-ID verification
• Go/no-go pipe mandrel

3DP can manufacture a cylindrical polymer drift or clearance gauge based on the dimensional requirements approved by the customer.

Some projects do not require a standard API drift. Instead, the drift may need to confirm that a specific piece of equipment can pass through the casing, tubing, conductor pipe, or connection.

Special drift applications may include:

• Verifying clearance for completion equipment
• Confirming passage for a downhole tool envelope
• Checking clearance for plugs or packers
• Confirming full-bore access
• Verifying minimum restriction diameter
• Checking clearance through a premium connection
• Inspecting large-bore casing
• Inspecting conductor pipe
• Confirming customer-specific minimum IDs
• Producing a physical go/no-go gauge from an engineering drawing

Our additive manufacturing process allows 3DP to create special geometries, diameters, lengths, profiles, and attachment features that may be difficult to produce using conventional drift-manufacturing methods.

Internally coated casing, lined pipe, corrosion-resistant alloy tubulars, and premium pipe require careful handling during inspection and running operations. 3DP manufactures lightweight, nonmetallic polymer drift mandrels for companies that want to verify internal clearance while reducing direct steel-on-steel contact with valuable tubular products.

Applications may include:

• Internally coated casing
• Internally coated tubing
• Corrosion-resistant alloy pipe
• CRA casing and tubing
• Plastic-lined pipe
• Fiberglass-lined pipe
• Corrosion-resistant internal surfaces
• Premium connections
• Specialty completion tubulars
• Pipe with expensive protective coatings

A rigid polymer drift provides an alternative to a bare steel mandrel when scratching, gouging, impact, or coating damage is a concern.

The drift must enter and exit the pipe without unnecessarily damaging the pipe or connection.

3DP’s lightweight nonmetallic construction can help reduce the consequences of accidental contact with:

• Pin-end threads
• Box-end threads
• Thread protectors
• Couplings
• Connection shoulders
• Metal-to-metal seal areas
• Premium connection features
• Internal coatings
• Pipe liners
• Finished pipe ends
• Corrosion-resistant surfaces

The reduced weight can also make the drift easier for personnel to guide and control as it enters or exits the tubular. No drift should be forced through a restriction or undersized area. However, incidental contact may occur while the drift is inserted, pulled, lowered, retrieved, or moved between joints. Using a lightweight polymer drift eliminates direct contact between a bare steel drift body and the inspected pipe surface.

An internal coating or liner can change the available internal clearance. The proper drift dimensions should be confirmed before manufacturing.

For a coated-pipe drift quotation, provide:

• Pipe outside diameter
• Pipe weight or wall thickness
• Actual or specified inside diameter
• Coating or liner type
• Approximate coating thickness
• Required drift outside diameter
• Required cylindrical length
• Required overall length
• Connection type
• Applicable operator or project specification

3DP will manufacture the product according to the customer-supplied or customer-approved dimensional requirements.

3DP manufactures lightweight drift mandrels for horizontal casing and tubing inspection at pipe mills, storage yards, inspection facilities, rig sites, offshore facilities, and field-service locations.

A lightweight pull-through drift can be easier to position, connect, pull, retrieve, and move to the next joint than a comparable large steel drift.

Horizontal drifting applications may include:

• Drifting pipe on the rack
• OCTG storage-yard inspection
• Pipe-mill clearance verification
• Receiving inspection
• Casing-yard drifting
• Tubing inspection
• Drift-and-tally operations
• Pre-running inspection
• Coated-pipe quality control
• Full-joint drifting
• Box-to-pin pull-through inspection
• Field-service pipe inspection

Pulling or attachment features may be incorporated at one or both ends, depending on the customer’s operating procedure.

Large lightweight drifts are also suitable for vertical casing and tubing inspection.

Reducing the weight of the drift can make it easier to lift, lower, control, and retrieve compared with a large conventional steel drift.

3DP can manufacture vertical drift mandrels with customer-specified:

• Drift outside diameter
• Cylindrical length
• Overall length
• Leading and trailing profiles
• Attachment points
• Pulling eyes
• Identification markings
• Operating orientation

Vertical drifting applications may include rig-site preparation, offshore tubular operations, casing-running support, well-service applications, and customer-defined clearance verification procedures.

Personnel searching for an OCTG drift may describe the operation rather than the product.

Common phrases include:

• Drift pipe on the rack
• On-rack casing drifting
• Drift casing before running
• Pre-run casing inspection
• Pipe-yard drift test
• Pull a rabbit through casing
• Verify casing ID before running
• Check pipe-body clearance
• Confirm connection clearance
• Full-joint drift inspection

3DP manufactures lightweight drifts for these applications, including large sizes that may be difficult to handle when manufactured from steel or heavy resin.

Some oilfield personnel refer to a casing drift as a casing rabbit, pipe rabbit, or drift rabbit.

Regardless of the terminology used by the engineering, inspection, procurement, or field-operations team, the purpose is generally to verify that the required minimum pass-through diameter is available through the pipe body, connection, or specified inspection area.

3DP manufactures lightweight large-diameter rabbits and drift mandrels for companies that need a custom internal-clearance verification tool but do not want to handle an unnecessarily heavy steel assembly.

Potential search and purchasing terms include:

• Large casing rabbit
• Lightweight pipe rabbit
• Oversized casing rabbit
• Polymer casing rabbit
• Custom pipe rabbit
• Large-bore rabbit
• Nonmetallic casing rabbit
• Pull-through casing rabbit
• Offshore casing rabbit
• Conductor-pipe rabbit

Large-format additive manufacturing gives 3DP the ability to manufacture custom OCTG inspection tools that may be difficult, expensive, or impractical to produce using traditional machining, casting, or molding.

Custom features may include:

• Customer-specified outside diameters
• API and special drift dimensions
• Alternative drift dimensions
• Custom drift lengths
• Tapered leading and trailing ends
• Rounded or application-specific profiles
• Pulling points at both ends
• Replaceable wear components
• High-visibility colors
• Identification markings
• Customer names or logos
• Serial numbers
• Project numbers
• Directional markings
• Unique geometries for special pipe applications

Our process is particularly useful when the required tool is:

• Too large for a typical drift supplier
• Needed in a low quantity
• Difficult to machine conventionally
• Excessively heavy when made from steel
• Based on a nonstandard dimension
• Required for a single project
• Intended for sensitive coated pipe
• Subject to continuing design revisions
• Unavailable through normal oilfield supply channels

Many large or unusual drift requirements involve only one tool or a limited quantity.

Traditional manufacturing methods may require a large billet, extensive machining time, expensive molds, casting patterns, or specialized tooling. These costs can make a one-off special drift difficult to justify.

3DP’s additive manufacturing process is well suited to:

• One custom drift
• Prototype drift mandrels
• Small production quantities
• Replacement drifts
• Project-specific inspection tools
• Emergency replacement requirements
• Custom dimensions not shown in a catalog
• Large sizes with limited demand
• Continuing design revisions

This provides engineers and procurement teams with another manufacturing option for unusual and difficult-to-source drift requirements.

Engineering teams may search for a manufacturer using technical or dimensional terminology instead of the general phrase “lightweight drift.”

Relevant engineering searches may include:

• Custom OCTG drift mandrel
• Minimum casing ID gauge
• Pipe pass-through gauge
• Alternative drift dimensions
• Special drift diameter
• Full-bore clearance mandrel
• Pipe-body restriction gauge
• Connection bore gauge
• Tool-envelope clearance mandrel
• Custom go/no-go tubular gauge
• Large-bore casing inspection tool
• Polymer drift for coated casing
• Nonmetallic mandrel for CRA pipe

3DP can review a drawing, dimensional table, model, pipe specification, or written engineering requirement.

3DP can quote from a formal request for quotation, purchase description, engineering drawing, dimensional table, project specification, or written dimensional requirement.

An RFQ should include:

• End-user or project name
• Required quantity
• Pipe size
• Pipe weight per foot
• Wall thickness
• Required drift outside diameter
• Required cylindrical length
• Required overall length
• Material requirements
• Inspection requirements
• Required delivery date
• Shipping destination
• Documentation requirements
• Marking or serialization requirements

Purchase descriptions may identify the product as:

• Casing drift
• Tubing drift
• Drift mandrel
• Special drift
• Alternative drift
• Casing rabbit
• Pipe rabbit
• Pass-through gauge
• Minimum-ID gauge
• Full-bore clearance tool
• Special clearance mandrel
• OCTG inspection gauge

If a conventional supplier cannot provide the required size, weight, geometry, or quantity, submit the requirement to 3DP for evaluation.

Field and operations personnel may be focused less on the manufacturing method and more on handling, safety, and job execution.

Common operational concerns include:

• A steel drift is too heavy to handle efficiently
• A large resin drift is still difficult to move
• The drift may damage internal coatings
• The drift may strike or damage threads
• A special size is unavailable locally
• The drift must be moved repeatedly between joints
• The drift must be pulled through horizontal pipe
• The drift must be lowered through vertical pipe
• The job requires an attachment point at both ends
• The drift must be highly visible in the work area
• The drift must be easier to transport offshore or between locations

3DP manufactures lightweight polymer drifts to address these practical field-handling requirements while maintaining the customer-specified dimensions.

A large lightweight drift can provide benefits beyond reducing the weight of one inspection tool.

Depending on the application, potential operational benefits may include:

• Reduced manual-handling demands
• Reduced employee fatigue
• Reduced dropped-object exposure
• Easier offshore transportation
• Easier movement between pipe joints
• Reduced need for lifting equipment
• Reduced metal-to-metal contact
• Reduced risk to internal coatings
• Reduced risk to threads and protectors
• Faster setup between inspections
• Easier storage and transportation
• Access to custom sizes that are otherwise unavailable

3DP provides a new source for organizations that need oversized or specialized drifts but may not know that large lightweight 3D-printed drift mandrels are available.

Many engineers and procurement professionals assume that extremely large drifts must be manufactured from steel, machined from a solid polymer billet, or produced from heavy cast resin. 3DP offers another option. Through large-format additive manufacturing, we produce rigid lightweight drift mandrels for dimensions and applications that conventional manufacturers may not routinely support.

Contact 3DP when you need:

• A large drift that is difficult to source
• A custom size not shown in a catalog
• A lighter alternative to a steel drift
• A lightweight alternative to a heavy resin drift
• A nonmetallic drift for coated pipe
• A drift for CRA tubular products
• A one-time special drift
• An oversized OCTG clearance gauge
• A large conductor-pipe rabbit
• A 22-inch drift
• A 28-inch drift
• A 36-inch drift
• A manufacturer willing to evaluate an unusual requirement

The nominal pipe size alone may not provide enough information to manufacture the correct drift. For an accurate quotation, provide the complete pipe and drift requirements.

• Pipe outside diameter
• Pipe weight per foot
• Wall thickness
• Nominal or actual inside diameter
• Pipe grade, when relevant
• Connection type
• Internal coating or liner
• Applicable pipe specification

• Required drift outside diameter
• Required cylindrical length
• Required overall length
• Required taper or end profile
• API, alternative, or special-drift requirement
• Dimensional tolerance requirements
• Required attachment or pulling features
• Required markings or identification

• Horizontal or vertical use
• Mill, pipe yard, rack, rig, or offshore use
• Pulling direction
• Retrieval method
• Expected handling procedure
• Required quantity
• Required delivery date
• Shipping destination

The customer remains responsible for identifying and approving the dimensions and acceptance requirements that apply to the pipe and inspection procedure.

Need a large API drift, oversized casing drift, conductor-pipe rabbit, alternative drift, custom special drift, nonmetallic coated-pipe drift, or lightweight pass-through mandrel?

Send 3DP your:

• Engineering drawing
• Pipe specification
• Drift dimensional table
• Purchase description
• Operator requirement
• Project specification
• Required drift dimensions
• Quantity and delivery location

3DP will review the requirement and determine whether a lightweight 3D-printed polymer drift can be manufactured for the application.

An OCTG drift mandrel is a dimensionally controlled inspection tool used to verify that the required internal clearance is available through oil country tubular goods such as casing and tubing.

A casing rabbit is another name sometimes used for a casing drift or pull-through drift mandrel. It is passed through the casing to verify the required minimum internal clearance.

3DP can manufacture drifts according to the customer-supplied or customer-approved dimensional requirements for the applicable casing, tubing, or pipe application.

Yes. 3DP can manufacture alternative drifts with diameters, cylindrical lengths, or profiles that differ from commonly used standard drift dimensions.

Yes. Special drift mandrels can be manufactured from customer drawings, dimensional requirements, equipment-clearance requirements, project specifications, or approved samples.

3DP specializes in large and oversized lightweight drift mandrels. We can evaluate requirements for 22-inch, 28-inch, 30-inch, 36-inch, and other custom diameters.

3DP can evaluate a 36-inch drift requirement based on the required outside diameter, cylindrical length, overall profile, quantity, and operating method.

Polymer construction can substantially reduce drift weight compared with a similarly sized steel drift. The exact weight reduction depends on the drift diameter, length, geometry, and construction.

3DP’s engineered 3D-printed construction is designed to reduce unnecessary material and weight. Depending on the size and construction of the comparison product, a 3DP drift may be lighter and easier to handle than a conventional solid or heavily constructed resin drift.

Yes. 3DP manufactures lightweight drift mandrels for horizontal pipe inspection, on-rack drifting, pipe-yard inspection, full-joint drifting, and pull-through casing applications.

Yes. 3DP can manufacture lightweight drifts for vertical casing and tubing inspection with customer-specified attachment points and dimensions.

Yes. 3DP manufactures nonmetallic polymer drift mandrels for internally coated casing, lined pipe, and other applications where direct contact with a bare steel drift may be undesirable.

3DP can evaluate drift requirements for corrosion-resistant alloy pipe, premium tubular products, and other sensitive pipe applications.

3DP’s nonmetallic polymer drifts are designed to reduce the risk associated with direct steel-on-steel contact. Proper operating procedures must still be followed, and no drift should be forced through an obstruction or undersized area.

Yes. Additive manufacturing allows 3DP to produce one-off special drifts and low-volume custom orders without requiring a dedicated mold or large conventional production run.

Provide the pipe size, weight per foot or wall thickness, required drift outside diameter, required cylindrical length, overall length, quantity, operating orientation, delivery location, and any special attachment, coating, marking, or documentation requirements.

If your company needs a large lightweight drift, oversized casing rabbit, custom API-dimensional drift, alternative drift, nonmetallic coated-pipe drift, or special pass-through gauge, contact 3DP.

We manufacture large and custom 3D-printed polymer drifts for oil and gas casing, tubing, conductor pipe, large-bore tubulars, coated pipe, and premium OCTG applications.

Request a Custom Drift Quote From 3DP

A 3D-printed casing drift is a dimensionally controlled drift mandrel manufactured through additive manufacturing instead of conventional machining, casting, or molding. 3DP uses large-format polymer 3D printing to manufacture lightweight drifts for checking the internal clearance of oil and gas casing, tubing, and specialty pipe.

Yes. 3DP manufactures drifts to applicable API dimensional requirements as well as customer-specified special-drift dimensions. Always provide the exact required drift diameter and length with your request.

Yes. Polymer construction can substantially reduce the weight of a drift compared with a similarly sized steel drift. The exact weight reduction depends on the drift diameter, length, internal structure, and required design.

3DP's 3D-printed construction is designed to minimize unnecessary material and weight. Depending on the size and construction of the comparison drift, a 3DP product may be lighter and easier to handle than a conventional solid or heavily constructed resin drift.

Yes. 3DP manufactures drifts for horizontal casing and tubing inspection. Their reduced weight makes positioning, pulling, retrieval, and repeated pipe-yard handling easier than with many large steel drifts.

Yes. Our drifts can be manufactured for vertical drifting applications with appropriate attachment points and customer-specified dimensions.

Our nonmetallic polymer drifts are designed to reduce the risk of scratching, impact damage, or metal-to-metal contact with casing threads, internal coatings, premium connections, and thread protectors. Proper operating and handling procedures should always be followed.

3DP specializes in large and oversized lightweight drifts. Contact us with the required diameter, length, weight per foot, and application so we can evaluate your specific requirement.

Yes. Additive manufacturing allows us to produce one-off special drifts and low-volume custom orders without requiring expensive molds or dedicated production tooling.

Provide the pipe outside diameter, weight per foot, required drift diameter, drift length, quantity, API or special-drift requirement, and whether the drift will be used horizontally or vertically.

Need a large API drift, lightweight casing drift, custom special drift, or oversized 3D-printed drift mandrel?

Send us the following information:

• Casing or tubing outside diameter
• Weight per foot
• Required drift outside diameter
• Required drift length
• API or special-drift requirement
• Horizontal or vertical application
• Quantity required
• Delivery location
• Any special lifting, pulling, coating, or identification requirements

3DP will review your application and provide a custom manufacturing quote.

Request a Lightweight Drift Quote Today

3DP combines oilfield experience with advanced large-format 3D printing to manufacture lightweight drifts specifically for tubing, casing, and specialty pipe inspection.

Customers choose 3DP for:

• Large and oversized drift capability
• Lightweight polymer construction
• API and special-drift dimensions
• Custom one-off manufacturing
• Fast design changes
• Reduced risk to threads and coatings
• Easier horizontal and vertical handling
• Made-to-order drift configurations
• Manufacturing in the United States
• Direct support from the manufacturer

We do more than sell standard drift sizes. We manufacture the drift your operation actually requires.