- 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.
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
