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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strapping tape

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A graduated tape use to measure, or strap, producing tanks. The measurements are used to generate a tank table, which describes tank capacity.

A grant extended by a government to permit a company to explore for and produce oil, gas or mineral resources within a strictly defined geographic area, typically beneath government-owned lands or ...

correlogram

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A graphical representation of the degree of agreement between segments of curves being correlated between different wells. The degree of lag (required shift), the amplitude of the peaks and the ...

periodogram

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A graphical representation of harmonic information in a data set. Often taken from Fourier analysis of the data, this representation is used to determine periodicities in petrophysical data and in ...

departure curve

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A graph that shows the effects of environmental factors on the ideal response of a measurement. The name comes from the departure of the actual response from the ideal. The term is used most commonly ...

scattergram

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A graph in which data points are plotted but not connected. The x and y axes of the scattergram represent the two variables being plotted. Sometimes, the data points are coded by using color or ...

conditional simulation

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A geostatistical tool that yields a quantitative measure of the error in a map. It is performed when multiple maps have been created using kriging or cokriging and where each map has similar mean and ...