- 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 simple or complex liquid mixture of hydrocarbons that can be refined to yield gasoline, kerosene, diesel fuel, and various other products.
Industry:Oil & gas
A person who contracts with an oil company to supervise the operations at a drilling site or well site who may coordinate the hiring of logging, testing, service, and workover companies.
Industry:Oil & gas
A drilling mud, such as, oil-base mud and invert-emulsion mud, in which oil is the continuous phase. It is useful in drilling certain formations that may be difficult or costly to drill with waterbase mud. Compare oil-emulsion mud.
Industry:Oil & gas
The machine used to impart rotational power to the drill stem while permitting vertical movement of the pipe for rotary drilling. Modern rotary machines have a special component, the rotary or master bushing, to turn the kelly bushing, which permits vertical movement of the kelly while the stem is turning.
Industry:Oil & gas
Pertaining to the time when drilling or completion operations are suspended so that the cement in a well can harden sufficiently.
Industry:Oil & gas
To suspend sucker rods in a derrick or mast on rod hangers rather than to place them horizontally on a rack.
Industry:Oil & gas
The horizontal steel member of a beam pumping unit that has rocking or reciprocating motion.
Industry:Oil & gas
A hard helmet worn by oilfield workers to minimise the danger of being injured by falling objects.
Industry:Oil & gas
