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The Petroleum Extension Service
Industry: Education; Oil & gas
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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.
after the initial completion of a well, the action and techniques of reentering the well and redoing or repairing the original completion to restore the well’s productivity.
Industry:Oil & gas
see spider.
Industry:Oil & gas
force resulting from pressure on water or other hydraulic fluid.
Industry:Oil & gas
to string a wire rope drilling line through the sheaves of the traveling and crown blocks to the hoisting drum.
Industry:Oil & gas
the entire length of all the joints of casing run in a well.
Industry:Oil & gas
an operation in which a specially blended liquid is pumped down a well and into a formation under pressure high enough to cause the formation to crack open, forming passages through which oil can flow into the wellbore.
Industry:Oil & gas
fracturing a formation again.
Industry:Oil & gas
see guide shoe.
Industry:Oil & gas
a type of mechanical jar in which a fluid moving through a small opening slows the piston stroke while the crew stretches the work string. After the hydraulic delay, a release mechanism in the jar trips to allow a mandrel to spring up and deliver a sharp blow. Compare mechanical jar.
Industry:Oil & gas
a set of controls, usually placed on the rig floor, or elsewhere on location, that is manipulated to control the amount of drilling fluid being circulated through the choke manifold. This procedure is necessary when a kick is being circulated out of a well. See choke manifold.
Industry:Oil & gas