- 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.
The oil company in charge of development and production in an oilfield in which several companies have joined to produce the field.
Industry:Oil & gas
To restore production from an existing formation when it has fallen off substantially or ceased altogether.
Industry:Oil & gas
To finish work on a well and bring it to productive status. See well completion.
Industry:Oil & gas
The smooth, uninterrupted circulation of drilling fluid down the drill stem, out the bit, up the annular space between the pipe and the hole, and back to the surface.
Industry:Oil & gas
The derrick or mast, drawworks, and attendant surface equipment of a drilling or workover unit.
Industry:Oil & gas
Removing fluid from the tubing in a well, often by means of a swab, to lower the bottomhole pressure in the wellbore at the perforations and induce the well to flow.
Industry:Oil & gas
Low-solids fluid or drilling mud used when a well is being completed. It is selected not only for its ability to control formation pressure, but also for the properties that minimise formation damage.
Industry:Oil & gas
A method of well completion in which a slotted or perforated liner, often wire-wrapped, is placed in the well and surrounded by gravel. If open hole, the well is sometimes enlarged by underreaming at the point where the gravel is packed. The mass of gravel excludes sand from the wellbore but allows continued production.
Industry:Oil & gas
1. a passageway through jet bits that causes the drilling fluid to be ejected from the bit at high velocity.
Industry:Oil & gas
To dismantle a drilling rig and auxiliary equipment following the completion of drilling operations. Also called tear down.
Industry:Oil & gas
