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pigging
Oil & gas; Oilfield

The act of forcing a device called a pig through a pipeline for the purposes of displacing or separating fluids, and cleaning or inspecting the line.

gridding
Oil & gas; Oilfield

The act of determining values for grid elements on a map. The grid element values are chosen from nearby data points. Methods are deterministic and use linear and nonlinear ...

history matching
Oil & gas; Oilfield

The act of adjusting a model of a reservoir until it closely reproduces the past behavior of a reservoir. The historical production and pressures are matched as closely as ...

bridge-off
Oil & gas; Oilfield

The accumulation or buildup of material, such as sand, fill or scale, within a wellbore, to the extent that the flow of fluids or passage of tools or downhole equipment is ...

humping
Oil & gas; Oilfield

The abnormal behavior in a buildup curve caused by phase redistribution in a wellbore. This behavior is most noticeable in oil wells producing a substantial amount of gas and ...

pooling
Oil & gas; Oilfield

The accumulation of smaller tracts of land, the sum total acreage of which are required for a governmental agency to grant a well permit or assign a production quota or allowable ...

permeability
Oil & gas; Oilfield

The ability, or measurement of a rock's ability, to transmit fluids, typically measured in darcies or millidarcies. The term was basically defined by Henry Darcy, who showed ...

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