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Drilling
Of or relating to the penetration of the Earth's surface in order to extract petroleum oil.
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oil-water interface
Oil & gas; Drilling
The surface of contact between a water layer and an oil layer.
interfacial tension
Oil & gas; Drilling
The surface free energy that exists between two immiscible liquid phases, such as oil and water. (Surface tension is the term for the energy barrier between a liquid and air. ) The energy barrier ...
shut-in pressure
Oil & gas; Drilling
The surface force per unit area exerted at the top of a wellbore when it is closed at either the Christmas tree or the BOP stack. The pressure may be from the formation or an external and intentional ...
yield stress
Oil & gas; Drilling
The stress that must be applied to a material to make it begin to flow (or to yield). Yield stress is a parameter in the Herschel-Bulkley rheological model.
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