Oilfield

Oilfield

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

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Oilfield

Pertaining to minerals or materials that grow in place with a rock, rather than having been transported and deposited. These include quartz, chlorite and other pore-filling minerals or cements that ...

Mafic

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Pertaining to minerals or igneous rocks composed of minerals that are rich in iron and magnesium, dense, and typically dark in color. The term comes from the words magnesium and ferric. Common mafic ...

Felsic

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Pertaining to minerals or igneous rocks composed of minerals such as quartz and feldspar that are relatively light in colour and density. The word comes from the terms feldspar and silica. Granite is ...

Allochthonous

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Pertaining to materials, particularly rock masses, that formed somewhere other than their present location, and were transported by fault movements, large-scale gravity sliding, or similar processes. ...

Benthic

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Pertaining to the environment and conditions of organisms living at the water bottom, or benthos. Also called benthonic.

Abyssal

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Pertaining to the depositional environment of the deepest area of the ocean basins, the abyss. The depositional energy is low, the abyssal plain is flat and nearly horizontal, and fine-grained ...

Water-wet

Oil & gas; Oilfield

Pertaining to the adhesion of a liquid to the surface of a solid. In water-wet conditions, a thin film of water coats the surface of the formation matrix, a condition that is desirable for efficient ...