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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.
an entry of water, gas, oil, or other formation fluid into the wellbore during drilling. It occurs because the pressure exerted by the column of drilling fluid is not great enough to overcome the pressure exerted by the fluids in the formation drilled. If prompt action is not taken to control the kick, or kill the well, a blowout may occur.
Industry:Oil & gas
the tendency of proppants to separate from fracture fluid when the speed, or velocity, of the fluid is low.
Industry:Oil & gas
low-solids fluid or drilling mud used when a well is being completed. It is selected not only for its ability to control formation pressure, but also for the properties that minimize formation damage.
Industry:Oil & gas
oil, gas, water, or any combination that enters the borehole from a permeable formation.
Industry:Oil & gas
1. the use of water-flooding or gas injection to maintain formation pressure during primary production and to reduce the rate of decline of the original reservoir drive. 2. water-flooding of a depleted reservoir. 3. the first improved recovery method of any type applied to a reservoir to produce oil not recoverable by primary recovery methods. See primary recovery.
Industry:Oil & gas
1. a mechanism used to transmit power from the engines to the pump, the drawworks, and other machinery on a drilling rig. It is composed of clutches, chains and sprockets, belts and pulleys, and a number of shafts, both driven and driving.
2. to connect two or more power producing devices, such as engines, to run driven equipment, such as the drawworks.
Industry:Oil & gas
1. to bring a well into production; used most often when gas is injected into a gas lift well to start production. 2. in workover operations, to swab a well to restore it to production. 3. to deviate a wellbore from the vertical, as in directional drilling.
Industry:Oil & gas
a diesel engine; an engine in which the fuel/air mixture inside the engine cylinders is ignited by the heat that occurs when the fuel-air mixture is highly compressed by the engine pistons.
Industry:Oil & gas
the depth in a vertical hole at which a deviated or slant hole is started; used in directional drilling.
Industry:Oil & gas
