- 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.
1. in drilling, the string of drill pipe or tubing suspended in a well to which is attached a special tool or device that is used to carry out a certain task, such as squeeze cementing or fishing. 2. in pipeline construction, the string of washpipe that replaces the pilot string in a directionally drilled river crossing. The work string remains in place under the river until the actual pipeline is made up and is ready to be pulled back across the river.
Industry:Oil & gas
a record of certain electrical characteristics (such as resistivity and conductivity) of formations traversed by the borehole. It is made to identify the formations, determine the nature and amount of fluids they contain, and estimate their depth. Also called an electric log or electric survey.
Industry:Oil & gas
sucker rods that have been broken and separated in a pumping well because of corrosion, improper loading, damaged rods, and so forth.
Industry:Oil & gas
cylindrical bars that support the elevators and attach them to the hook.
Industry:Oil & gas
on rotary rigs and top drive rigs, hinged steel devices with manual operating handles that crew members latch onto a tool joint (or a sub).
Industry:Oil & gas
to pierce the casing wall and cement of a wellbore to provide holes through which formation fluids may enter or to provide holes in the casing so that materials may be introduced into the annulus between the casing and the wall of the borehole. Perforating is accomplished by lowering into the well a perforating gun, or perforator.
Industry:Oil & gas
to temporarily or permanently cease production from a well or to cease further drilling operations.
Industry:Oil & gas
a machine for converting the heat content of fuel into rotary motion that can be used to power other machines. Compare motor.
Industry:Oil & gas
1. a well completion method in which the producing zone or zones are cased through, cemented, and perforated to allow fluid flow into the wellbore. 2. a well completed by this method.
Industry:Oil & gas
