Oilfield

Oilfield

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

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Oilfield

An indicator of the porosity that does not contribute to a sonic measurement of interval transit time. The transit time is little affected by vugs, fractures and other irregular events because the ...

Orifice metre

Oil & gas; Oilfield

An instrument that records the flow rate of gas through a pipeline. The flow rate is calculated from the pressure differential created by the fluid passing through an orifice of a particular size and ...

Porosimeter

Oil & gas; Oilfield

An instrument for measuring the pore volume, and hence the porosity, of a core sample. The term is also used for some instruments that actually measure grain volume, such as the Boyle?s Law ...

Electrical resistance probe

Oil & gas; Oilfield

An instrument used in a corrosion testing to determine metal loss. The probe directly measures the increase in resistance of a metal as its cross-sectional area is reduced by corrosion. At suitable ...

Densimeter

Oil & gas; Oilfield

An instrument that measures the specific gravity of a mixture of gas, liquid and solids. This device is also known as a densitometer.

Line drive

Oil & gas; Oilfield

An injection pattern in which the injection wells are located in a straight line parallel to the production wells. In a line drive pattern, the injected fluid, which is normally water, steam or gas, ...