Oilfield

Oilfield

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

Industry: Oil & gas

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snub

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The action of forcing a pipe or tubular into a well against wellbore pressure. Well-intervention techniques in live wells, such as coiled tubing and snubbing, use equipment designed to apply the ...

reservoir modeling

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The act of producing a model of a reservoir. The model could include any of the geological, fluid or other characteristics of the reservoir.

spreading loss

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The additional loss in amplitude of an electromagnetic wave emitted by an electromagnetic propagation or dielectric propagation measurement compared to that of a plane wave. The spreading loss ...

The act of passing the mud around a piece of equipment, such as passing mud returns around the shale shaker screens or going around a hydrocyclone device. From a mud-engineering viewpoint, this can ...

facies modeling

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The act of modeling a reservoir using knowledge of the facies that make up the reservoir and the depositional environments that the facies represent. The depositional characteristics will suggest ...

Boltzmann probability distribution

Oil & gas; Oilfield

One of a number of possible distributions that may occur when the results of events are plotted. Boltzmann distributions were originally described from theoretical consideration on the probable ...