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Oil & gas; Drilling
To add a length of drillpipe to the drillstring to continue drilling. In what is called jointed pipe drilling, joints of drillpipe, each about 30 ft (9 m) long, are screwed ...
funnel viscosity
Oil & gas; Drilling
Time, in seconds for one quart of mud to flow through a Marsh funnel. This is not a true viscosity, but serves as a qualitative measure of how thick the mud sample is. The funnel ...
fingerboard
Oil & gas; Drilling
The working platform approximately halfway up the derrick or mast in which the derrickman stores drillpipe and drill collars in an orderly fashion during trips out of the hole. ...
particle-size distribution
Oil & gas; Drilling
The weight, or net volume, of solid particles that fall into each of the various size ranges, given as a percentage of the total solids of all sizes in the sample of interest. ...
equivalent sack
Oil & gas; Drilling
The weight of any cementitious material or blend based on the absolute volume of the cement. The term is normally used to define a 鈥渟ack鈥?of cement blend in which part of the ...
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