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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Buttress thread

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A thread profile used on casing or liner tubulars. Buttress threads are square-cut and create a hydraulic seal through the interference fit of the mating threads.

Backside

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A term used to describe the annulus surrounding a production tubing string above the production packer.

Live cement

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A term used to describe a cement slurry that remains liquid but is still capable of thickening or setting to become an unmovable solid mass. Some remedial operations treat the excess live cement ...

Simultaneous operation (SIMOP)

A term used mainly on offshore platforms, or installations with multiple wellheads, where more than one wellbore is being accessed, such as where a drilling rig, slickline unit or coiled tubing unit ...

Wash pipe

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A tool-string component used with a burn shoe for washover operations. The wash pipe is a relatively large internal-diameter tubular that can be washed over a fish in preparation for engaging and ...

Fluid tester

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A tool run on wireline to obtain fluid samples and measure formation pressures. This device is also called a wireline formation tester.

Wireline formation tester

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A tool run on an electric logging cable that pushes a probe into the formation, which then allows production into a small closed chamber. The tool is primarily used to obtain formation pressures at ...