- 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.
In crane and truck operations, a rope attached to the bottom of a load suspended by the crane or truck, which, when grasped by a crew member, allows the crew member to prevent rotation and to assist in guiding the load.
Industry:Oil & gas
Injection of gases or liquids into a reservoir to force oil toward and into producing wells.
Industry:Oil & gas
To measure and record the total length of pipe, casing, or tubing that is to be run in a well.
Industry:Oil & gas
1. the inside diameter of a pipe or a drilled hole.
2. to penetrate or pierce with a rotary tool. Compare tunnel.
Industry:Oil & gas
The unwanted migration of the liquid part of the drilling mud or cement slurry into a formation, often minimised or prevented by the blending of additives with the mud or cement.
Industry:Oil & gas
A long, hollow cylinder, usually steel, through which fluids are conducted. Oilfield tubular goods are casing (including liners), drill pipe, tubing, or line pipe.
Industry:Oil & gas
A cement wiper plug that precedes cement slurry down the casing. The plug wipes drilling mud off the walls of the casing and prevents it from contaminating the cement. See cementing, wiper plug.
Industry:Oil & gas
(slang) the position in which the mast on a mobile rig is resting horizontally over the driver’s cab.
Industry:Oil & gas
A tap with a gradually decreasing diameter from the top. It is used to retrieve a hollow fish such as a drill collar and is the male counterpart of a die collar. The taper tap is run into a hollow fish and rotated to cut enough threads to provide a firm grip and permit the fish to be pulled and recovered.
Industry:Oil & gas
