This standard applies to smooth steel seamless casing and core pipes and nipples for them, used for fastening wells and taking cores during geological exploration drilling, as well as the threads of these pipes and nipples and related products. The standard does not apply to double core tubes and core tubes used for core sampling with shells with removable core receivers
GOST 6238-1977 history
2010GOST 6238-1977 Casing and coring pipes for geology-exploring drilling and nipples for them. Specifications