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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Blast joint

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A section of heavy walled tubing that is placed across any perforated interval through which the production tubing must pass, such as may be required in multiple zone completions. In addition to ...

A rounded profile component attached to the downhole end of a casing string. An integral cheque valve in the float shoe prevents reverse flow, or U-tubing, of cement slurry from the annulus into the ...

Cementing plug

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A rubber plug used to separate the cement slurry from other fluids, reducing contamination and maintaining predictable slurry performance. Two types of cementing plug are typically used on a ...

Pony rod

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A rod shorter than usual, usually placed below the polished rod and used to make a rod string of a desired length.

Flow unit

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A rock volume with identifiable fluid flow characteristics that can be modeled, including heterogeneity or anisotropy.

Rock types

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A set of characteristics that several rocks have in common. The characteristics of interest are usually those pertaining to fluid movement and fluid storage capacity.

Advective transport modelling

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A series of techniques that use geostatistical methods to determine fluid and contaminant flow in the subsurface. These techniques are used primarily to study contamination in groundwater in ...