Off-shore well construction has shown to be a complex and risky activity. In order to build off-shore wells, operators rely mainly on off-shore rigs. These rigs have an expensive day rate, related to their rental and maintenance, but also due to their equipment failure. At off-shore Petrobras scenario, on June of 2011, was implemented at the company database a better detailing on the classification of rig equipment failure. That brought a discontinuity to the database records and created a demand for adequacy of the former classification to the new classification structure. Basically, rig equipment failure records are based on textual information. For a liability of 3384 records, it was unable for one person to manage the task. Therefore, an urge came for a tool that could classify these records automatically, using database records already classified under the new labels. The main purpose of this work is to overcome this database discontinuity. Data was treated and transformed through text mining tools and then processed by supervised learning algorithm SVM (Support Vector Machines). After obtaining the best model configuration, the old records were submitted under this model and were classified according to the new classification structure.