- 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 special drilling mud used to keep a well under control while it is being worked over. A workover fluid is compounded carefully so that it will not cause formation damage.
Industry:Oil & gas
The cylinder or liner in which the plunger of a sucker rod pump reciprocates.
Industry:Oil & gas
Any of a variety of complex chemical or electrochemical processes, such as rust, by which metal is destroyed through reaction with its environment.
Industry:Oil & gas
Metal debris lost in a hole. Junk may be a lost bit, pieces of a bit, pieces of pipe, wrenches, or any relatively small object that impedes drilling or completion and must be fished out of the hole.
Industry:Oil & gas
A surface unit similar to a pumping unit but having no individual power plant. Usually, several pump jacks are operated by pull rods or cables from one central power source.
Industry:Oil & gas
A device made up on the bottom of the drill stem or on wireline to catch pieces of junk from the bottom of the hole. Circulating the mud or reeling in the wireline forces the junk into a barrel in the tool, where it is caught and held. When the basket is brought back to the surface, the junk is removed. Also called a junk sub or junk catcher.
Industry:Oil & gas
The speed, or velocity, at which a pump is run. In drilling, the pump rate is usually measured in strokes per minute.
Industry:Oil & gas
A chemical substance that minimises or prevents corrosion in metal equipment.
Industry:Oil & gas
