Oilfield

Oilfield

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

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Oilfield

A section of manifold containing the valves and piping necessary to bleed off pressure from a vessel or system. Bleedoff lines may be exposed to widely fluctuating pressures. They must be adequately ...

Insert

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A section on a log print that gives the scales of the curves displayed and the depth scale. There usually is an insert at the beginning and end of each interval surveyed.

Arithmetic mean

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A mathematical method of finding a central value for a group of data. It is most often referred to as the average but also as the mean. The arithmetic mean is the sum of all the observed values ...

Midrange

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A mathematical method of finding a central value for a group of data. The midrange is defined as the sum of the lowest value in the data set and the highest value if the data set divided by two.

Spline

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A mathematical procedure for connecting data points with a smooth line. The line does not necessarily go through the data points, but its direction and curvature are affected by all the data points. ...

Greedy algorithm

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A mathematical procedure used to improve computer usage in simulated annealing runs. The procedure uses a fast swapping technique to match model semivariograms to actual semivariogram data.

Nuclear magnetic resonance measurement

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A measurement of the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) properties of hydrogen in the formation. There are two phases to the measurement: polarisation and acquisition. First, the hydrogen atoms are ...