Patent ID: 8741406

Claim:
An oil well pipe having a pipe body and a pin portion provided at an end of the pipe body with the pin portion to be protected against galling, the pin portion having a contact surface including a threaded portion and an unthreaded metal contact portion formed at the end of the threaded portion, characterized in that the contact surface is covered with a dry solid coating formed from an ultraviolet curing resin, the dry solid coating of the ultraviolet cured resin having a thickness of 5 to 50 μm, the dry solid coating is dry at 50° C. and is prepared by photopolymerizing a composition comprising at least a monomer, an oligomer, and an initiator of photopolymerization having absorption in the wavelength region of 260-450 nm, and wherein the dry solid coating formed from the ultraviolet curing resin further comprises both calcium stearate and calcium carbonate in total amount of 0.05-0.35 parts by mass with respect of 1.0 part by mass of the ultraviolet curing resin, wherein the contact surface on which the dry solid coating is disposed is subjected to preparatory surface treatment by a method selected from the group consisting of blasting, pickling, phosphate chemical conversion treatment, oxalate chemical conversion treatment, borate chemical conversion treatment, metal plating, and a combination of two or more of these prior to forming the dry solid coating.