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The Petroleum Extension Service
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 drilling rig in which the source of power is one or more internal-combustion engines and in which the power is distributed to rig components through mechanical devices (such as chains, sprockets, clutches, and shafts). Also called a power rig. Compare electric rig.
Industry:Oil & gas
a device similar to a power swivel that is used in place of the rotary table to turn the drill stem.
Industry:Oil & gas
the drilling line from the crown block sheave to the anchor, so called because it does not move. Compare fast line.
Industry:Oil & gas
a downhole tool with rough, sharp, extremely hard cutting surfaces for removing metal, packers, cement, sand, or scale by grinding or cutting.
Industry:Oil & gas
a cement wiper plug that follows cement slurry down the casing. It goes before the drilling mud used to displace the cement from the casing and separates the mud from the slurry. See cementing, wiper plug.
Industry:Oil & gas
see deadline tie-down anchor.
Industry:Oil & gas
a method of enhanced recovery in which various hydrocarbon solvents or gases (such as propane, LPG, natural gas, carbon dioxide, or a mixture thereof) are injected into the reservoir to reduce interfacial forces between oil and water in the pore channels and thus displace oil from the reservoir rock. See chemical flooding, gas injection.
Industry:Oil & gas
the turning force that is applied to a shaft or other rotary mechanism to cause it to rotate or tend to do so. Torque is measured in foot-pounds, joules, newton-metres, and so forth.
Industry:Oil & gas
the sheave on the crown block over which the deadline is reeved.
Industry:Oil & gas
any tank or vessel used to mix components of a substance (as in the mixing of additives with drilling mud).
Industry:Oil & gas
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