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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hydraulic fracturing

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A stimulation treatment routinely performed on oil and gas wells in low-permeability reservoirs. Specially engineered fluids are pumped at high pressure and rate into the reservoir interval to be ...

stock tank

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A storage tank for oil production after the oil has been treated.

A steel rod that is used to make up the mechanical assembly between the surface and downhole components of a rod pumping system. Sucker rods are 25 to 30 ft (7 to 9 m) long and threaded at each end ...

stabilization

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A state that a producing well reaches when the flow rate and well pressure are apparently constant for a reasonable period of time, such as a few hours or a day or more. The actual time period is ...

darcy

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A standard unit of measure of permeability. One darcy describes the permeability of a porous medium through which the passage of one cubic centimeter of fluid having one centipoise of viscosity ...

bottom sample

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A specimen obtained from the bottom part of the tank or lower point in a pipeline.

high-pressure squeeze

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A squeeze-cementing technique involving the application of treatment pressure that is higher than the fracture pressure of the formation. This procedure may be necessary to force the slurry into ...