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Oilfield
Oilfield refers to a region with an abundance of oil wells extracting petroleum from below the ground.
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Dean-Stark extraction
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A method for the measurement of fluid saturations in a core sample by distillation extraction. The water in the sample is vaporized by boiling solvent, then condensed and collected in a calibrated ...
varimax rotation
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A method for rotating axes of a plot such that the eigenvectors remain orthogonal as they are rotated. These rotations are used in principal component analysis so that the axes are rotated to a ...
type-curve analysis
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A method for quantifying well and reservoir parameters such as permeability, skin, fracture half-length, dual-porosity parameters, and others, by comparing the pressure change and its derivative of ...
effective medium theory
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A method for determining the effective properties of random fields, commonly abbreviated EMT. Originally developed to estimate transport coefficients, this theory is based on the idea of replacing ...
porous plate technique
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A method for desaturating a core sample by placing one end in capillary contact with a porous plate and applying gas or oil under pressure to the remaining surfaces. The liquid in the original fully ...
Hough transform
Oil & gas; Oilfield
A method for detecting patterns of points in binary data sets. Data pairs on a plot are assigned slopes and offsets and then replotted in slope and offset space. The method has been used on wireline ...
