Drilling

Drilling

Of or relating to the penetration of the Earth's surface in order to extract petroleum oil.

Industry: Oil & gas

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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, and distinct from ...

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 asphaltenes ...

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 environment is ...

glacial

Oil & gas; Drilling

Pertaining to the environment of deposition by glaciers.

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 wind-blown deposits, eolian ...