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driller\'s depth
Oil & gas; Oilfield
The depth of a well or features within the wellbore as measured while drilling. The measured length of each joint of drillpipe or tubing is added to provide a total depth or ...
volumetric cross section
Oil & gas; Oilfield
The cross section of a material to photoelectric absorption, in barns/cm 3 . The volumetric cross section, U, is from the product of the photoelectric factor, PEF or P e , and ...
abandonment costs
Oil & gas; Oilfield
The costs associated with abandoning a well or production facility. Such costs are specified in the authority for expenditure (AFE), and typically cover the plugging of wells; ...
membrane potential
Oil & gas; Oilfield
The electromagnetic force generated across an ion-selective membrane when solutions on either side of the membrane have different salinities. Shales and clays are cationic ...
early-time transient data
Oil & gas; Oilfield
The data observed before the start of radial flow (middle-time transient data). When not dominated by wellbore storage, these data may reveal near-wellbore reservoir features ...
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