Drilling

Drilling

Of or relating to the penetration of the Earth's surface in order to extract petroleum oil.

Industry: Oil & gas

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spurt loss

Oil & gas; Drilling

The instantaneous volume (spurt) of liquid that passes through a filter medium prior to deposition of a competent and controlling filter cake. In static filtration, the spurt volume can be a ...

API Recommended Practice 10B Recommended Practice

Oil & gas; Drilling

The industry-standard document that provides guidelines for testing methods for cements and cement formulations for use in well cementing. These recommended procedures are commonly modified to ...

The high-capacity J-shaped equipment used to hang various other equipment, particularly the swivel and kelly, the elevator bails or topdrive units. The hook is attached to the bottom of the traveling ...

completion

Oil & gas; Drilling

The hardware used to optimize the production of hydrocarbons from the well. This may range from nothing but a packer on tubing above an openhole completion ("barefoot" completion), to a system of ...

anode

Oil & gas; Drilling

The half of a battery that is positively charged and to which anions migrate by electrostatic attraction. Half of an electrolytic corrosion cell in metal is called the "anode," from which metal ...

paraffinic hydrocarbon

Oil & gas; Drilling

The group of hydrocarbons consisting of linear molecules with the formula C n H 2n+2 . Methane, CH 4 , is the simplest member. Higher members, starting at about C 18 , are wax-like and are called ...

olefinic hydrocarbon

Oil & gas; Drilling

The group of hydrocarbon compounds that has one or more double or triple bonds between carbon atoms in the linear chain. Ethylene, C 2 H 2 , is the smallest olefin. Synthetic olefinic hydrocarbons ...