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The Petroleum Extension Service
Industry: Education; Oil & gas
Number of terms: 4495
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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.
the hole where the crew starts the top of the well.
Industry:Oil & gas
a device, usually with segmented threads, run with seal subs on the bottom of a tubing string and latched into a permanent packer to prevent tubing movement.
Industry:Oil & gas
to place stands of drill pipe and drill collars in a vertical position to one side of the rotary table in the derrick or mast of a drilling or workover rig. Compare lay down pipe.
Industry:Oil & gas
the largest diameter casing and the topmost length of casing. It is relatively short and encases the topmost string of casing.
Industry:Oil & gas
lay
1. the spiral of strands in a wire rope either to the right or to the left, as viewed from above. 2. a term used to measure wire rope, signifying the linear distance a wire strand covers in one complete rotation around the rope.
Industry:Oil & gas
to run and cement casing at a certain depth in the wellbore. Sometimes called set pipe.
Industry:Oil & gas
a conical-shaped metal device into which cutting teeth are formed or mounted on a roller cone bit.
Industry:Oil & gas
to pull drill pipe or tubing from the hole and place it in a horizontal position on a pipe rack. Compare set back.
Industry:Oil & gas
see set casing.
Industry:Oil & gas
1. a section of pipe or fitting used to join pipe to pipe or to a vessel. 2. a place in electrical circuits where wires join. 3. the action of adding a joint of pipe to the drill stem as drilling progresses.
Industry:Oil & gas