- 産業: Education; Oil & gas
- Number of terms: 4495
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
The Petroleum Extension Service (PETEX) is a unit of the Division of Continuing Education at The University of Texas at Austin and has been training companies and individuals since 1944.
a device to which the deadline is attached, securely fastened to the mast or derrick substructure. Also called a deadline anchor.
Industry:Oil & gas
a working shift for drilling crew or other oilfield workers. Some tours are 8 hours; the three daily tours are called daylight, evening (or afternoon), and graveyard (or morning). 12-hour tours may also be used; they are called simply day tour and night tour.
Industry:Oil & gas
an instrument that reports the performance of a control device or signals if unusual conditions appear in a system.
Industry:Oil & gas
a substance added to reservoir fluids to permit the movements of the fluid to be followed or traced. Dyes and radioactive substances are used as tracers in underground water flows and sometimes helium is used in gas. When samples of the water or gas taken some distance from the point of injection reveal signs of the tracer, the route of the fluids can be mapped.
Industry:Oil & gas
the equipment used to remove unwanted gas from a liquid, especially from drilling fluid.
Industry:Oil & gas
the derrickhand’s working platform. As pipe or tubing is run into or out of the hole, the derrickhand must handle the top end of the pipe, which may be as high as 90 feet (27 meters) or higher in the derrick or mast.
Industry:Oil & gas
a survey that uses a radioactive tracer such as a gas, liquid, or solid having a high gamma ray emission. When the material is injected into any portion of the wellbore, the point of placement or movement can be recorded by a gamma ray instrument. The tracer log is used to determine channeling or the travel of squeezed cement behind a section of perforated casing.
Industry:Oil & gas
