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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wildcat appraisal well

Oil & gas; Drilling

An appraisal well drilled with minimum preliminary information about the underlying structure and conditions, it usually follows a wildcat well which reported shows of oil or gas.

semi-submersible rig

Oil & gas; Drilling

A floating drilling platform that is supported by underwater pontoons, generally used for exploration purposes only.

key seating

Oil & gas; Drilling

The situation that occurs when the drill string wears a groove in the high side of a deviated well bore - this can produce problems by causing the drill string to stick.

workover

Oil & gas; Drilling

The event that describes when a drilling site must be worked on.

rod buster

Oil & gas; Drilling

According to Proz.com, a rod buster is a worker that sets reinforcement steel rods. This term could also be "rod holder".

rope boring

Oil & gas; Drilling

A method similar to rod drilling except that rigid rods are replaced by a steel rope to which the boring tools are attached and allowed to fall by their own weight.

Also called hydraulic fracturing, fracking is the process to extract natural gas by pumping chemically treated water and sand into a drilled well to crack shale rock, releasing natural gas trapped ...