- 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 blowout preventer that uses shear rams as closing elements.
Industry:Oil & gas
To penetrate the productive formation after the casing is set and cemented on top of the pay zone.
Industry:Oil & gas
1. a grooved pulley. 2. support wheel over which tape, wire, or cable rides.
Industry:Oil & gas
The heavy seamless tubing used to rotate the bit and circulate the drilling fluid. Joints of pipe are generally approximately 30 feet long are coupled together by means of tool joints.
Industry:Oil & gas
All members in the assembly used for rotary drilling from the swivel to the bit, including the kelly, the drill pipe and tool joints, the drill collars, the stabilizers, and various specialty items. Compare drill string.
Industry:Oil & gas
A method of formation testing. The basic drill stem test tool consists of a packer or packers, valves or ports that may be opened and closed from the surface, and two or more pressure-recording devices. The tool is lowered on the drill string to the zone to be tested. The packer or packers are set to isolate the zone from the drilling fluid column.
Industry:Oil & gas
To temporarily or permanently cease production from a well or to cease further drilling operations.
Industry:Oil & gas
The column, or string, of drill pipe with attached tool joints that transmits fluid and rotational power from the kelly to the drill collars and the bit. Often, the term is loosely applied to include both drill pipe and drill collars.
Industry:Oil & gas
Pertaining to packers and other tools left in the wellbore to be broken up later by the drill bit. Drillable equipment is made of cast iron, aluminum, plastic, or other soft, brittle material.
Industry:Oil & gas
