- 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 cylindrical bar, spindle, or shaft around which other parts are arranged or attached or that fits inside a cylinder or tube.
Industry:Oil & gas
1. a nonproducing well used for injecting liquid or gas into the reservoir for enhanced recovery. 2. a saltwater disposal well or a water supply well.
Industry:Oil & gas
1. an accessory system of piping to a main piping system (or another conductor) that serves to divide a flow into several parts, to combine several flows into one, or to reroute a flow to any one of several possible destinations.
Industry:Oil & gas
A drilling tool made up in the drill string directly above the bit. It causes the bit to turn while the drill string remains fixed. It is used most often as a deflection tool in directional drilling, where it is made up between the bit and a bent sub (or, sometimes, the housing of the motor itself is bent). Two principal types of downhole motor are the positive-displacement motor and the downhole turbine motor.
Industry:Oil & gas
To place stands of drill pipe and drill collars in a vertical position to one side of the rotary table in the derrick or mast of a drilling or workover rig. Compare lay down pipe.
Industry:Oil & gas
The hoisting mechanism on a drilling rig. It is essentially a large winch that spools off or takes in the drilling line and thus lowers or raises the drill stem and bit.
Industry:Oil & gas
To run and cement casing at a certain depth in the wellbore. Sometimes called set pipe.
Industry:Oil & gas
The mechanical brake on the drawworks that can slow or prevent the drawworks drum from moving.
Industry:Oil & gas
The spool-shaped cylinder in the drawworks around which drilling line is wound or spooled.
Industry:Oil & gas
