- 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 pit in the ground to provide additional height between the rig floor and the well head to accommodate the installation of blowout preventers, ratholes, mouseholes, and so forth. It also may collect drainage water and other fluids for subsequent disposal.
Industry:Oil & gas
A percussion tool operated manually or hydraulically to deliver a heavy upward or downward blow to fish stuck in the borehole.
Industry:Oil & gas
A powder consisting of alumina, silica, lime, and other substances that hardens when mixed with water. Extensively used in the oil industry to bond casing to the walls of the wellbore.
Industry:Oil & gas
A hydraulic tool used in conjunction with a jar and made up on the fishing string above the jar to increase the power of the jarring force.
Industry:Oil & gas
The adherence of casing to cement and cement to formation. When casing is run in a well, it is set, or bonded, to the formation by means of cement.
Industry:Oil & gas
A wire rope, one end of which is connected to the end of the tongs and the other end of which is attached to the cathead.
Industry:Oil & gas
The lowering of mechanical tools, such as valves and fishing tools, into the well for various purposes. Electric wireline operations, such as electric well logging and perforating, involve the use of conductor line.
Industry:Oil & gas
An acoustic survey or sonic-logging method that records the quality or hardness of the cement used in the annulus to bond the casing and the formation. Casing that is well bonded to the formation transmits an acoustic signal quickly; poorly bonded casing transmits a signal slowly. See acoustic survey, acoustic well logging.
Industry:Oil & gas
1. a hydraulic device operated by a centrifugal pump used to clean the mud pits, or tanks, and to mix mud components. 2. in a perforating gun using shaped charges, a highly penetrating, fast-moving stream of exploded particles that forms a hole in the casing, cement, and formation.
Industry:Oil & gas
A general term used to refer to any type of log being run in a well.
Industry:Oil & gas
