- 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 recording of information about subsurface geologic formations, including records kept by the driller and records of mud and cutting analyses, core analysis, drill stem tests, and electric, acoustic, and radioactivity procedures.
Industry:Oil & gas
The pressure in a well that exists between the casing and the tubing or the casing and the drill pipe.
Industry:Oil & gas
A control head for injecting coiled tubing into a well that seals off the tubing and makes a pressure tight connection.
Industry:Oil & gas
The maintenance work performed on an oil or gas well to improve or maintain the production from a formation already producing. It usually involves repairs to the pump, rods, gas-lift valves, tubing, packers, and so forth.
Industry:Oil & gas
An off shore drilling structure consisting of a barge on which the drilling equipment is constructed. It is positioned on location, then the barge is sunk.
Industry:Oil & gas
A system of conducting regular checks, routine maintenance and testing of equipment to lengthen the service life and to potentially permit replacement or repair of weakened or faulty parts before equipment failure results.
Industry:Oil & gas
1. a cylindrical object, rounded, blunt, or chisel-shaped on one end and usually made of tungsten carbide, that is inserted in the cones of a bit, the cutters of a reamer, or the blades of a stabiliser to form the cutting element of the bit or the reamer or the wear surface of the stabilizer. Also called a compact.
Industry:Oil & gas
The first stage of oil production in which natural reservoir drives are used to recover oil, although some form of artificial lift may be required to exploit declining reservoir drives.
Industry:Oil & gas
Any of several operations used to increase the production of a well, such as acidizing or fracturing. See acidize.
Industry:Oil & gas
