- 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.
a sedimentary rock composed of individual mineral grains of rock fragments between 0.06 and 2 millimeters (0.002 and 0.079 inches) in diameter and cemented together by silica, calcite, iron oxide, and so forth.
Industry:Oil & gas
to pull the drill stem out of the wellbore to change the bit, to change from a core barrel to the bit, to run electric logs, to prepare for a drill stem test, to run casing, and so on. Also called trip out, tripping out (TOH).
Industry:Oil & gas
an expendable substitute device made up in the drill stem to absorb much of the wear between the frequently broken joints (such as between the kelly or top drive and the drill pipe).
Industry:Oil & gas
1. a mineral deposit (for example, calcium carbonate) that precipitates out of water and adheres to the inside of pipes, heaters, and other equipment. 2. an ordered set of gauge marks together with their defining figures, words, or symbols with relation to which position of the index is observed when reading an instrument.
Industry:Oil & gas
any device that is used to remove deposits (such as scale or paraffin) from tubing, casing, rods, flow lines, or pipelines.
Industry:Oil & gas
an employee of an operating company who supervises the operations at a drilling site or well site and who may coordinate the hiring of logging, testing, service, and workover companies. Also called company hand, operator's representative, or company man.
Industry:Oil & gas
a device that is fastened to the outside of casing to remove mud cake from the wall of a hole to condition the hole for cementing.
Industry:Oil & gas
to finish work on a well and bring it to productive status. See well completion.
Industry:Oil & gas
