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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pigging

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The act of forcing a device called a pig through a pipeline for the purposes of displacing or separating fluids, and cleaning or inspecting the line.

The act of determining values for grid elements on a map. The grid element values are chosen from nearby data points. Methods are deterministic and use linear and nonlinear interpolation methods, or ...

history matching

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The act of adjusting a model of a reservoir until it closely reproduces the past behavior of a reservoir. The historical production and pressures are matched as closely as possible. The accuracy of ...

bridge-off

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The accumulation or buildup of material, such as sand, fill or scale, within a wellbore, to the extent that the flow of fluids or passage of tools or downhole equipment is severely obstructed. In ...

humping

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The abnormal behavior in a buildup curve caused by phase redistribution in a wellbore. This behavior is most noticeable in oil wells producing a substantial amount of gas and having a substantial ...

pooling

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The accumulation of smaller tracts of land, the sum total acreage of which are required for a governmental agency to grant a well permit or assign a production quota or allowable to an operator.

permeability

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The ability, or measurement of a rock's ability, to transmit fluids, typically measured in darcies or millidarcies. The term was basically defined by Henry Darcy, who showed that the common ...