- 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 receiving tank situated at the end of the mud return line. The flow of mud comes into the bottom of the device and travels to control mud flow over the shale shaker. 2. a metal box under a truck bed that holds pipeline repair tools.
Industry:Oil & gas
controls, opens and closes the blowout preventers. See blowout preventer.
Industry:Oil & gas
a wellbore drilled with a full-gauge bit. Also called a true-to-gauge hole.
Industry:Oil & gas
a diesel, LPG, natural gas, or gasoline engine along with a mechanical transmission or generator for producing power for the drilling rig.
Industry:Oil & gas
a device that stores hydraulic fluid under pressure in special containers and provides a method to open and close the blowout preventers.
Industry:Oil & gas
a type of radioactivity well log that records natural radioactivity around the wellbore. Shales generally produce higher levels of gamma radiation and can be detected and studied with the gamma ray tool. See radioactivity well logging.
Industry:Oil & gas
a wrench that is used to make up or break out drill pipe, tubing, or casing on which the torque is provided by air or fluid pressure. Conventional tongs are operated by a mechanical pull provided by a jerk line connected to a cathead.
Industry:Oil & gas
the assembly of well control equipment including preventers, spools, valves, and nipples connected to the top of the wellhead.
Industry:Oil & gas
a tubular, perforated device attached to the bottom of a suckerrod pump that helps to prevent gas lock. The device works on the principle that gas, being lighter than oil, rises. As well fluids enter the anchor, gas breaks out of the fluid and exits from the anchor through perforations near the top. Remaining fluids enter the pump through a mosquito bill (a tube within the anchor), which has an opening near the bottom. In this way, all or most of the gas escapes before the fluids enter the pump.
Industry:Oil & gas
