Oilfield

Oilfield

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

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Oilfield

The change in direction of rotation that occurs when a spinner flowmeter tool is moving in the same direction, but faster, than the fluid. When the tool is stationary, moving against the fluid flow, ...

Sweet crude oil

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Oil containing small amounts of hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide.

Oil formation volume factor

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Oil and dissolved gas volume at reservoir conditions divided by oil volume at standard conditions. Since most measurements of oil and gas production are made at the surface, and since the fluid flow ...

Live oil

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Oil containing dissolved gas in solution that may be released from solution at surface conditions. Live oil must be handled and pumped under closely controlled conditions to avoid the risk of ...

Fractal networks

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Networks that are described using the mathematics of fractals. These are useful for describing certain types of fracture systems.

Numerical methods

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Mathematical methods that require iterative processing of data rather than applying deterministic equations. Some relationships can be solved only by numerical methods, including most integration ...

Autochthonous

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Materials, especially rock masses, that formed in their present location and have not been transported. Fault surfaces can separate indigenous rocks from allochthonous rocks, although some ...