Oilfield

Oilfield

Oilfield refers to a region with an abundance of oil wells extracting petroleum from below the ground.

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Oilfield

Related to any aspect of logging that employs an electrical cable to lower tools into the borehole and to transmit data. Wireline logging is distinct from measurements-while-drilling (MWD) and mud ...

induction

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Related to a wireline log of formation resistivity based on the principle of inducing alternating current loops in the formation and measuring the resultant signal in a receiver. In the simplest ...

microresistivity

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Related to a log of the resistivity of the flushed zone recorded by a wireline electrode device. The device is mounted on a pad and pressed against the borehole wall. Several designs exist, for ...

Joule-Thomson

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Referring to the change in temperature observed when a gas expands while flowing through a restriction without any heat entering or leaving the system. The change may be positive or negative. For ...

multiple regression

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Regression techniques that find relationships between two or more variables that have a complex (nonlinear) relationship. Porosity and permeability relationships are often of this form in rocks that ...

biphasic

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Referring to the flow of two immiscible fluids, oil and water, oil and gas, or gas and water.

Taitel-Dukler

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Referring to the description of different regimes for the simultaneous flow of gas and liquid in vertical pipes introduced by Y. Taitel and A. Dukler in 1980. The results are shown in the form a ...