- 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 device used to control the rate of flow in a line to open or shut off a line completely, or to serve as an automatic or semiautomatic safety device. Those used extensively include the check valve, gate valve, globe valve, needle valve, plug valve, and pressure relief valve.
Industry:Oil & gas
the mechanical brake on the drawworks that can slow or prevent the drawworks drum from moving.
Industry:Oil & gas
an assistant toolpusher whose duty hours are typically during nighttime hours. Also known as a tourpusher.
Industry:Oil & gas
pertaining to the time when drilling or completion operations are suspended so that the cement in a well can harden sufficiently.
Industry:Oil & gas
the spool-shaped cylinder in the drawworks around which drilling line is wound or spooled.
Industry:Oil & gas
a tubular pipe fitting threaded on both ends used for making connections between pipe joints and other tools.
Industry:Oil & gas
to bore a hole in the earth, usually to find and remove subsurface formation fluids such as oil and gas.
Industry:Oil & gas
in drilling, to assemble the blowout preventer stack on the wellhead at the surface.
Industry:Oil & gas
the horizontal steel member of a beam pumping unit that has rocking or reciprocating motion.
Industry:Oil & gas
