Oilfield

Oilfield

Oilfield refers to a region with an abundance of oil wells extracting petroleum from below the ground.

Industry: Oil & gas

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permeability barrier

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A barrier to movement of a fluid through the rock. This may be a change in the rock where the pores are no longer connected or even present, or secondary mineral growth that filling in the pore ...

Spiralizer

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A brand name of a spiral shaped solid body centralizer for casing and screens.

local content

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The amount of local personnel, material and services that working interest owners are required to employ when drilling and operating a well, as specified under the terms of a concession agreement.

strokes per minute (SPM)

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A count of pump strokes times pump volume times plunger # times pump efficiency estimates volume pumped.

A well-intervention operation conducted with equipment and support facilities that precludes the requirement for a rig over the wellbore. Coiled tubing, slickline and snubbing activities are commonly ...

smectite

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A clay that exhibits water swelling and fines dissociation problems when it occurs in authogenic form and is reactive with the flowing fluid. Smectite clays such as bentonite generate viscosity by ...

simulated annealing

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A method for constructing a gridded reservoir model by iterative trial and error. The grid is initially populated randomly with a characteristic (such as facies) so that some property (such as a ...