- 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 device that stores hydraulic fluid under pressure in special containers and provides a method to open and close the blowout preventers.
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 rodlike or tubelike extension below a downhole tool, such as a mill, that serves to guide the tool into or over another downhole tool or fish.
Industry:Oil & gas
The surface pipe through which oil or gas travels from a well to processing equipment or to storage.
Industry:Oil & gas
A bit placed on a special device that serves to guide the device into an already existing hole that is to be opened (made larger in diameter). The pilot bit merely guides, or pilots, the cutters on the hole opener into the existing hole so that the hole-opening cutters can enlarge the hole to the desired size.
Industry:Oil & gas
A special mill that has a heavy tubular extension below it called a pilot or stinger. The pilot, smaller in diameter than the mill, is designed to go inside drill pipe or tubing that is lost in the hole. It guides the mill to the top of the pipe and centres it, thus preventing the mill from by-passing the pipe. Also called a piloted mill.
Industry:Oil & gas
A well that produces oil or gas by its own reservoir pressure rather than by use of artificial means (such as pumps).
Industry:Oil & gas
1. the male threaded section of a tool joint. 2. on a bit, the threaded bit shank.
Industry:Oil & gas
