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lifting frame
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A lifting device used when performing coiled tubing operations from a semisubmersible rig or drillship. The coiled tubing injector and pressure-control equipment are positioned ...
absorption oil
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A light liquid hydrocarbon used to absorb or remove the heavier liquid hydrocarbons from a wet gas stream. Absorption oil is also called wash oil.
square log
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A log in which the changes in reading with depth only occur abruptly, with no transition. A square log is often an approximation of a real log, in which the continuously varying ...
core gamma log
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A log obtained in the laboratory by moving the core past a gamma ray detector. The log can be of the total gamma ray in API units, or of the spectral response in weight ...
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