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The Petroleum Extension Service
Industry: Education; Oil & gas
Number of terms: 4495
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The Petroleum Extension Service (PETEX) is a unit of the Division of Continuing Education at The University of Texas at Austin and has been training companies and individuals since 1944.
A well drilled to obtain a fresh water supply to support drilling and production operations or to obtain a water supply to be used in connexion with an enhanced recovery program.
Industry:Oil & gas
A set of mounted blades used to impart motion to a fluid air or gas (such as, the rotor of a centrifugal pump).
Industry:Oil & gas
Preventing the passage of fluid. A formation may be porous yet impermeable if there is an absence of connecting passages between the voids within it. See permeability.
Industry:Oil & gas
A block with lead or another relatively soft material on its bottom. It is made up on drill pipe or tubing at the surface, run into a well, and set down on the object that has been lost in the well. The block is retrieved and the impression is examined. The impression is a mirror image of the top of the fish; it also indicates the fish’s position in the hole, for example, whether it is centred or off to one side. From this information, the correct fishing tool may be selected.
Industry:Oil & gas
A specially designed, self-propelled workover or drilling rig that is driven directly to the well site. Power from a carrier rig's hoist engine or engines also propels the rig on the road. A carrier rig may be a back-in type or a drive-in type.
Industry:Oil & gas
1. a receiving tank situated at the end of the mud return line. The flow of mud comes into the bottom of the device and travels to control mud flow over the shale shaker. 2. a metal box under a truck bed that holds pipeline repair tools.
Industry:Oil & gas
1. steel pipe placed in an oil or gas well to prevent the wall of the hole from caving in, to prevent movement of fluids from one formation to another and to aid in well control.
Industry:Oil & gas
A device secured around the casing at regular intervals to centre it in the hole.
Industry:Oil & gas
A diesel, LPG, natural gas, or gasoline engine along with a mechanical transmission or generator for producing power for the drilling rig.
Industry:Oil & gas
A device for measuring the weight of the drill string.
Industry:Oil & gas
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