- Industry: Education; Oil & gas
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- Company Profile:
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 removable, hard-steel, serrated piece that fits into the jaws of the tongs and firmly grips the body of the drill pipe, drill collars, or casing while the tongs are making up or breaking out the pipe.
Industry:Oil & gas
a device that uses centrifugal force to separate small solid components from liquid drilling fluid.
Industry:Oil & gas
the power supplied to a drilling rig by diesel engines driving electric generators.
Industry:Oil & gas
a cone-shaped device, a hydrocyclone, designed to remove very fine solid particles from the drilling mud.
Industry:Oil & gas
an arrangement of slips and packing rings used to suspend tubing from the tubing head.
Industry:Oil & gas
a high-compression, internal-combustion engine used extensively for powering drilling rigs. In a diesel engine, air is drawn into the cylinders and compressed to very high pressures; ignition occurs as fuel is injected into the compressed and heated air. Combustion takes place within the cylinder above the piston, and expansion of the combustion products imparts power to the piston.
Industry:Oil & gas
an employee of a drilling fluid supply company whose duty it is to test and maintain the drilling mud properties that are specified by the operator.
Industry:Oil & gas
a flanged fitting that supports the tubing string, seals off pressure between the casing and the outside of the tubing, and provides a connection that supports the Christmas tree.
Industry:Oil & gas
a light hydrocarbon mixture for diesel engines; it has a boiling range just above that of kerosene.
Industry:Oil & gas
