You're probably seeing casing. It's for new wells. If you don't case and cement the well, the formation will swell up and shut the hole in in a matter of days/hours. If it were from old wells, they go in a few hundred feet, cut the casing, and then cement the whole thing shut, and the pipe looks like hell. It's possible that it's actual drill stem, but there isn't nearly as much of that on the road, because it gets reused over and over, and generally stays local to that area. Here's some pics of the difference. You can see the drill pipe has the female (box) end molded as part of the pipe. But the casing actually has a collar screwed to one end.
Drill pipe (drill stem):
Casing:
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