- Industry: Education; Oil & gas
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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 special tool made up on the bottom of the drill stem to pick up junk from the bottom of the hole. Most junk retrievers are designed with ports that allow drilling fluid to exit the tool a short distance off the bottom. This flow of fluid creates an area of low pressure inside the tool so that the junk is lifted and caught in the retriever by the higher pressure outside the tool. See junk, junk basket.
Industry:Oil & gas
Descriptive of any tool or device that can be pumped down a wellbore. Pump-down tools are not lowered into the well on wireline; instead, they are pumped down the well with the drilling fluid.
Industry:Oil & gas
A weight applied to compensate for existing weight or force. On pumping units in oil production, counterweights are used to offset the weight of the column of sucker rods and fluid on the upstroke of the pump, and the weight of the rods on the downstroke.
Industry:Oil & gas
The machine that imparts reciprocating motion to a string of sucker rods extending to the positive displacement pump at the bottom of a well. It is usually a beam arrangement driven by a crank attached to a speed reducer, coupled to a motor.
Industry:Oil & gas
1. in piping, a metal collar with internal threads used to join two sections of threaded pipe. 2. in power transmission, a connexion extending between a driving shaft and a driven shaft.
Industry:Oil & gas
A length of drill or line pipe, tubing, or casing shorter than range 1 (18 feet or 6.26 metres for drill pipe) in length.
Industry:Oil & gas
The heavy square or hexagonal steel member suspended from the swivel through the rotary table and connected to the topmost joint of drill pipe to turn the drill stem as the rotary table turns.
Industry:Oil & gas
A device fitted to the rotary table through which the kelly passes and the means by which the torque of the rotary table is transmitted to the kelly and to the drill stem. Also called the drive bushing.
Industry:Oil & gas
