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Oil & gas

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relative filtrate volume

Oil & gas; Drilling

Quantity that is double the filtrate volume collected from a filtration test between 7. 5 to 30 minutes. This ignores the spurt of filtrate that comes out of the filter press ...

slurries

Oil & gas; Drilling

Plural form of slurry.

filter media

Oil & gas; Drilling

Plural of filter medium.

quality assurance

Oil & gas; Drilling

Planned and systematic monitoring, testing and documenting of practices to show that a product or procedure meets established standards. Companies that manufacture, process, sell, ...

dope

Oil & gas; Drilling

Pipe dope, a specially formulated blend of lubricating grease and fine metallic particles that prevents thread galling (a particular form of metal-to-metal damage) and seals the ...

cavings

Oil & gas; Drilling

Pieces of rock that came from the wellbore but that were not removed directly by the action of the drill bit. Cavings can be splinters, shards, chunks and various shapes of rock, ...