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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updip

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Located up the slope of a dipping plane or surface. In a dipping (not flat-lying) hydrocarbon reservoir that contains gas, oil and water, the gas is updip, the gas-oil contact is downdip from the ...

Located down the slope of a dipping plane or surface. In a dipping (not flat-lying) hydrocarbon reservoir that contains gas, oil and water, the gas is updip, the gas-oil contact is downdip from the ...

knockout

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Liquid condensed by a scrubber following a compression and cooling process.

lean oil

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Liquid hydrocarbon utilized to remove heavier components from the gas stream in a gas processing plant.

mud anchor

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Large diameter pipe placed outside the gas anchor to reduce the amount of solids carried by the formation liquid entering the subsurface sucker-rod pump.