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Terms concerning oil and gas as a fossil fuel and natural resource.

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common-offset

Oil & gas; Drilling

Pertaining to traces that have the same offset, or distance between source and receiver.

common-receiver

Oil & gas; Drilling

Pertaining to traces that have a different source but share a receiver.

alluvial

Oil & gas; Drilling

Pertaining to the subaerial (as opposed to submarine) environment, action and products of a stream or river on its floodplain, usually consisting of detrital clastic sediments, ...

oil-wet

Oil & gas; Drilling

Pertaining to the preference of a solid to be in contact with an oil phase rather than a water or gas phase. Oil-wet rocks preferentially imbibe oil. Generally, polar compounds or ...

bathyal

Oil & gas; Drilling

Pertaining to the environment of deposition and the organisms of the ocean between depths of 200 m (656 ft), the edge of the continental shelf, and 2000 m (6560 ft). The bathyal ...

glacial

Oil & gas; Drilling

Pertaining to the environment of deposition by glaciers.

eolian

Oil & gas; Drilling

Pertaining to the environment of deposition of sediments by wind, such as the sand dunes in a desert. Because fine-grained sediments such as clays are removed easily from ...