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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perforation

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The communication tunnel created from the casing or liner into the reservoir formation, through which oil or gas is produced. The most common method uses jet perforating guns equipped with shaped ...

The commingled flow of different phase fluids, such as water, oil and gas. Multiphase fluid flow is a complex factor, important in understanding and optimizing production hydraulics in both oil and ...

dual induction

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The combination of a deep-induction and a medium-induction array on the same sonde. In a typical implementation, the two arrays share the same transmitters but have different receivers. If the ...

lost-circulation material

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The collective term for substances added to drilling fluids when drilling fluids are being lost to the formations downhole. Commonly used lost-circulation materials include are fibrous (cedar bark, ...

accuracy

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The closeness of the agreement between the result of the measurement and the conventional true value of the quantity. Accuracy should not be confused with precision. (ISO) Core measurements have ...

precision

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The closeness of agreement between the results obtained by applying a measurement procedure several times on identical materials and under prescribed measurement conditions. The smaller the random ...

reproducibility

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The closeness of agreement between individual results obtained in the normal and correct operation of the same method on identical test material, but under different test conditions (such as ...