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The Petroleum Extension Service
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.
Any drilling rig that is located on dry land.
Industry:Oil & gas
The principal component of a rotary, or rotary machine, used to turn the drill stem and support the drilling assembly. It has a bevelled gear arrangement to create the rotational motion and an opening into which bushings are fitted to drive and support the drilling assembly.
Industry:Oil & gas
A record made each day of the operations on a working drilling rig and, traditionally, phoned, faxed, emailed, or radioed in to the office of the drilling company and possibly the operator every morning.
Industry:Oil & gas
The procedure of pulling out and subsequently running back into the hole a string of drill pipe or tubing. Also called tripping.
Industry:Oil & gas
An air or inert gas device that minimises pressure surges in the output line of a mud pump. Sometimes called a surge dampener.
Industry:Oil & gas
To attach elevators to a section of pipe to pull it out of or run into the hole.
Industry:Oil & gas
A device, usually with segmented threads, run with seal subs on the bottom of a tubing string and latched into a permanent packer to prevent tubing movement.
Industry:Oil & gas
In areas where two 12-hour tours are worked, a period of 12 hours, usually during daylight, worked by a drilling or workover crew when equipment is being run around the clock.
Industry:Oil & gas
In areas where three eight-hour tours are worked, the shift of duty on a drilling rig that starts at or about daylight. Compare evening tour, morning (graveyard) tour.
Industry:Oil & gas
To lower a string of casing into the hole. Also called to run pipe.
Industry:Oil & gas