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strapping tape
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A graduated tape use to measure, or strap, producing tanks. The measurements are used to generate a tank table, which describes tank capacity.
concession
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A grant extended by a government to permit a company to explore for and produce oil, gas or mineral resources within a strictly defined geographic area, typically beneath ...
correlogram
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A graphical representation of the degree of agreement between segments of curves being correlated between different wells. The degree of lag (required shift), the amplitude of the ...
periodogram
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A graphical representation of harmonic information in a data set. Often taken from Fourier analysis of the data, this representation is used to determine periodicities in ...
departure curve
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A graph that shows the effects of environmental factors on the ideal response of a measurement. The name comes from the departure of the actual response from the ideal. The term ...
scattergram
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A graph in which data points are plotted but not connected. The x and y axes of the scattergram represent the two variables being plotted. Sometimes, the data points are coded by ...
conditional simulation
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A geostatistical tool that yields a quantitative measure of the error in a map. It is performed when multiple maps have been created using kriging or cokriging and where each map ...
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