- 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. the spiral of strands in a wire rope either to the right or to the left, as viewed from above. 2. a term used to measure wire rope, signifying the linear distance a wire strand covers in one complete rotation around the rope.
Industry:Oil & gas
To pull drill pipe or tubing from the hole and place it in a horizontal position on a pipe rack. Compare set back.
Industry:Oil & gas
The pipe tongs suspended in the derrick or mast and operated by a chain or a wire rope connected to the makeup cathead or the breakout cathead.
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
The crew member who operates the lead tongs when drill pipe and drill collars are being handled. Also called lead-tong man.
Industry:Oil & gas
A clamp placed tightly around a drill collar that is suspended in the rotary table by drill collar slips.
Industry:Oil & gas
An accessory to a fishing tool, placed above it. If the tool cannot be disengaged from the fish, the safety joint permits easy disengagement of the string of pipe above the safety joint. Thus, part of the safety joint and the tool attached to the fish remain in the hole and become part of the fish.
Industry:Oil & gas
