With the development of The Times, the progress of science and technology, people began to use tools for drilling and get to resources, history is very long can probably from the 11th century, the ancient people started may be made from bamboo and wood tools, with human as the labor power, to cut salt well drilling, deep mined at the same time as the gas cooking brine salt are obtained. However, is the earliest bamboo and wood is used for drilling, you can become the first generation of oil drill pipe. To the beginning of the 20th century, we use steel tool equipment, the steam engine as a motivation drilling work, begin to have cable drilling, and drilling tools and was called the second generation of drill pipe.

Our modern understanding of drill pipe in the true sense, appeared in the 1940 s, the use of bit drilling cuttings, let the drill pipe transmission torque and the clay slurry, thus the drilling depth and speed are a lot of ascension. Later in the 70 s, with the rapid development of science and technology and developed, and naturally it enters a period of automatic drilling technology, and we put forward a concrete and function characteristics of drill pipe more rigorous requirements, since this period has been used by the oil drill pipe is the third generation of drill pipe.

Due to various of well depth, such as: large displacement Wells, horizontal Wells, deep Wells and ultra deep well drilling technology widely used, such as drilling risk and drilling cost and at the same time have been improved, and the traditional sense of the old already can not meet the use requirements of the drilling tool, so it is developing the fourth generation of oil drill pipe is toward intelligent, digital, anticorrosion, high strength, high toughness, striding development and improve safety environment protection, etc.