25 July 2017
See Driller’s Chair
18 July 2017
An immobile, offshore structure constructed on pilings from which wells are drilled, produced, or both.
18 July 2017
To place cement plugs into a dry hole and abandon it.
18 July 2017
To seal off the bottom section of a wellbore to prevent the inflow of fluid from that portion of the hole.
18 July 2017
An opening or space within a rock or mass of rocks, usually small and often filled with some fluid (water, oil, gas, or all three). Compare […]
18 July 2017
1) the condition of being porous (such as a rock formation). 2) the ratio of the volume of empty space to the volume of solid rock […]
18 July 2017
A choke in which the orifice size must be changed to change the rate of flow through the choke. See choke and orifice.
18 July 2017
These are air or hydraulic elevators operated on bails hanging below the traveling equipment, which provide a remote opening and closing of the elevator without human […]
18 July 2017
See Slips.
18 July 2017
The utility functions associated with a traditional mousehole, such as hoisting, lowering, rotating, and grabbing or actuating with a slip assembly. Usually associated with facilitating offline […]
18 July 2017
The initial nitrogen charge in the accumulator. The nitrogen gas charge is compressed by the pumps hydraulically charging the accumulators and is used to expel the […]
18 July 2017
The force that a fluid (liquid or gas) exerts uniformly in all directions within a vessel, pipe, hole in the ground, and so forth, such as […]
