- 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.
A sedimentary rock composed of individual mineral grains of rock fragments between 0.06 and 2 millimetres (0.002 and 0.079 inches) in diameter and cemented together by silica, calcite, iron oxide, and so forth.
Industry:Oil & gas
A centrifugal device, similar to a desander, used to remove very fine particles, or silt, from drilling fluid to lower the amount of solids in the fluid.
Industry:Oil & gas
A systematic recording of data, such as a driller’s log, mud log, electrical well log, or radioactivity log. Many different logs are run in wells to discern various characteristics of downhole formation.
Industry:Oil & gas
An expendable substitute device made up in the drill stem to absorb much of the wear between the frequently broken joints (such as between the kelly or top drive and the drill pipe).
Industry:Oil & gas
To run any of the various logs used to ascertain downhole information about a well.
Industry:Oil & gas
Any of several electrical, acoustical, mechanical, or radioactivity devices that are used to measure and record certain characteristics or events that occur in a well that has been or is being drilled.
Industry:Oil & gas
A drill bit that has small industrial diamonds embedded in its cutting surface.
Industry:Oil & gas
1. the last string of casing set in a well. 2. the string of casing that is set at the top of or through the producing zone, often called the oil string or production casing.
Industry:Oil & gas
1. a mineral deposit (for example, calcium carbonate) that precipitates out of water and adheres to the inside of pipes, heaters, and other equipment. 2. an ordered set of gauge marks together with their defining figures, words, or symbols with relation to which position of the index is observed when reading an instrument.
Industry:Oil & gas
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
