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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Wet oil

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Oil that contains basic sediment and water (BS&W).

Measurements made by measurements-while-drilling (MWD) tools subsequent to the initial bit run. MWD logs are recorded while drilling the well. However, these tools can also record logs at later times ...

Downhole sensors

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Mechanical or electronic devices for measuring various properties in the well such as pressure, fluid flow rate from each branch of a multilateral well, temperature, vibration, composition, fluid ...

Iterative methods

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Mathematical techniques that require an algorithm or equation to be repeated until a condition is met. These methods usually require the convergence of a result to a value. Computers are excellent ...

Cluster analysis

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Mathematical techniques for summarising large amounts of multidimensional data into groups. The two most popular techniques are: hierarchical k-means. The hierarchical system calculates as many ...

Cold production

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Nonthermal primary methods of heavy oil production, which include technologies such as production with horizontal wells, multilaterals, CHOPS, water or gas injection.