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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Pumper

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A mobile high-pressure pumping unit commonly used for cementing or stimulation operations. Most pump units are configured with a high-pressure triplex pump and one or more centrifugal pumps to ...

A mixture of hydrofluoric acid (HF) and hydrochloric acid (HCl) or organic acid used as the main fluid in a sandstone matrix treatment. Hydrochloric acid or organic acid is mixed with HF to keep the ...

Blended crude

Oil & gas; Oilfield

A mixture of crude oils, blended in the pipeline to create a crude with specific physical properties. Because heavy and extra-heavy crudes or bitumens cannot flow from the field to the refinery in ...

Accuracy

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The closeness of the agreement between the result of the measurement and the conventional true value of the quantity. Accuracy should not be confused with precision. (ISO) Core measurements have ...

Precision

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The closeness of agreement between the results obtained by applying a measurement procedure several times on identical materials and under prescribed measurement conditions. The smaller the random ...

Reproducibility

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The closeness of agreement between individual results obtained in the normal and correct operation of the same method on identical test material, but under different test conditions (such as ...

Repeatability

Oil & gas; Oilfield

The closeness of agreement between independent results obtained in the normal and correct operation of the same method on identical test material, in a short space of time, and under the same test ...