- 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.
To obtain cuttings for geological information as formations are penetrated by the bit. The samples are obtained from drilling fluid as it emerges from the wellbore or, in cable-tool drilling, from the bailer.
Industry:Oil & gas
The string of casing set in a well after the surface casing but before production casing is set to keep the hole from caving and to seal off formations. In deep wells, one or more intermediate strings may be required.
Industry:Oil & gas
The last string of casing set in a well, inside of which is usually suspended a tubing string.
Industry:Oil & gas
A spool-shaped attachment on the end of the catshaft, around which rope for hoisting and moving heavy equipment on or near the rig floor is wound. See breakout cathead, makeup cathead.
Industry:Oil & gas
A fishing tool containing metal-cutting knives that is lowered into the inside of a length of pipe stuck in the hole to cut the pipe. The severed portion of the pipe can then be returned to the surface. Compare external cutter.
Industry:Oil & gas
The efforts made to minimise the decline in a well’s production. It includes, for example, acid-washing of casing perforations to dissolve mineral deposits, scraping or chemical injection to prevent paraffin buildup, and various measures taken to control corrosion and erosion damage.
Industry:Oil & gas
Broken or frayed strands of the steel wire that makes up the outer wrapping of wire rope.
Industry:Oil & gas
Any packer designed to make a seal between the tubing and the casing during production.
Industry:Oil & gas
A portable servicing or workover unit, usually mounted on wheels and self-propelled. A wellservicing unit consists of a hoist and engine mounted on a wheeled chassis with a self-erecting mast. A workover rig is basically the same, with the addition of a substructure with rotary, pump, pits, and auxiliaries to permit handling and working a drill string.
Industry:Oil & gas
