- 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. a rope of wire, hemp, or other strong fibers. 2. braided wire used to conduct electricity, often called power cable.
Industry:Oil & gas
(slang) the position in which the mast on a mobile rig is resting horizontally over the driver’s cab.
Industry:Oil & gas
a plate that fits in the rotary table and holds the drill bit while it is being unscrewed from the drill collar.
Industry:Oil & gas
a record showing variations in wellbore diameter by depth, indicating undue enlargement due to caving in, washout, or other causes. The caliper log also reveals corrosion, scaling, or pitting inside tubular goods.
Industry:Oil & gas
a record of the natural or induced radioactive characteristics of subsurface formations. Also called nuclear log. See radioactivity well logging.
Industry:Oil & gas
a device attached to the catshaft of the drawworks that is used as a power source for the tongs used in unscrewing drill pipe; usually located opposite the driller’s side of the drawworks.
Industry:Oil & gas
a scientist who gathers and interprets data pertaining to the formations of the earth’s crust.
Industry:Oil & gas
