- 行业: 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 type of improved recovery in which heat is introduced into a reservoir to lower the viscosity of heavy oils and to facilitate their flow into producing wells. The pay zone may be heated by injecting steam (steam drive) or by injecting air and burning a portion of the oil in place (in situ combustion).
Industry:Oil & gas
unrefined liquid petroleum. It ranges in gravity from 9°API to 55°API and in color from yellow to black.
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
to jump the spinning chain up from a box end tool joint so that the chain wraps around the pin end tool joint after it is stabbed into the box. The stand or joint of drill pipe is turned or spun by a pull on the spinning chain from the cathead on the drawworks.
Industry:Oil & gas
an area of deck grating removed to clear an obstruction or to permit pipes, ducts, columns, and the like to pass through the grating.
Industry:Oil & gas
a portable derrick that is capable of being raised as a unit, as distinguished from a standard derrick, which cannot be raised to a working position as a unit. For transporting by land, the mast can be divided into two or more sections to avoid excessive length extending from truck beds on the highway.
Industry:Oil & gas
a petroleum- or water-bearing formation of relatively low porosity and permeability.
Industry:Oil & gas
the fragments of rock dislodged by the bit and brought to the surface in the drilling mud. Washed and dried cuttings samples are analyzed by geologists to obtain information about the formations drilled.
Industry:Oil & gas
a device that fits into the rotary table to accommodate the slips and drive the kelly bushing so that the rotating motion of the rotary table can be transmitted to the kelly.
Industry:Oil & gas
