- 업종: 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 tool used to shape, form, or finish other tools or pieces of metal. For example, a threading die is used to cut threads on pipe.
Industry:Oil & gas
The quantities of whole mud lost to a formation, usually in cavernous, pressured, or coarsely permeable beds. Evidenced by the complete or partial failure of the mud to return to the surface as it is being circulated in the hole.
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
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
Drill pipe, drill collars, tubing, or casing that has become separated in the hole from the part of the pipe reaching the surface, necessitating its removal before normal operations can proceed; for example, a fish.
Industry:Oil & gas
A light hydrocarbon mixture for diesel engines; it has a boiling range just above that of kerosene.
Industry:Oil & gas
An incident in the workplace that results in an injury serious enough that causes the person injured to be unable to work for a day or more.
Industry:Oil & gas
The power supplied to a drilling rig by diesel engines driving electric generators.
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
A specially fabricated length of casing or tubing usually placed temporarily above a valve on top of the casinghead or tubing head. It is used to run swabbing or perforating tools into a producing well and provides a method for sealing off pressure and thus should be rated for highest anticipated pressure.
Industry:Oil & gas
