Oilfield

Oilfield

Oilfield refers to a region with an abundance of oil wells extracting petroleum from below the ground.

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Oilfield

A projection of data from the apex of a cone in a three-dimensional plot onto a surface at the base of the cone. This projection often is performed in log analysis to remove a dimension and see what ...

additivity

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A property of semivariogram models. Any linear combination of admissible models with positive coefficients can be nested or added together. Generally, single models are used for modeling experimental ...

oil well

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A producing well with oil as its primary commercial product. Oil wells almost always produce some gas and frequently produce water. Most oil wells eventually produce mostly gas or water.

Alford rotation

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A processing technique to project formation shear data recorded in any two orthogonal directions into the fast and slow shear directions in the presence of shear-wave anisotropy. In the sonic logging ...

sweetening

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A process used to remove hydrogen sulfide (H 2 S) and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) from a gas stream. These components are removed because they can form acidic solutions when they contact water, which will ...

radio silence

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A procedure imposed during perforating operations in which radios at or near the wellsite are switched off to prevent accidental detonation of perforating guns. Radio silence is required for wireline ...

petrophysical model

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A process or procedure used to interpret petrophysical (usually wireline log) data. Usually representing a set of equations, algorithms or other mathematical processes, petrophysical models often ...