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The Petroleum Extension Service (PETEX) is a unit of the Division of Continuing Education at The University of Texas at Austin and has been training companies and individuals since 1944.
Contacts that interrupt the current in the primary circuit of an electrical system such as in a spark-ignition engine.
Industry:Oil & gas
A large, hook-shaped device from which the elevator bails or the swivel is suspended. It turns on bearings in its supporting housing.
Industry:Oil & gas
To jump the spinning chain up from a box end tool joint so that the chain wraps around the pin end tool joint after it is stabbed into the box. The stand or joint of drill pipe is turned or spun by a pull on the spinning chain from the cathead on the drawworks.
Industry:Oil & gas
The weight of the drill stem and associated components that are suspended from the hook.
Industry:Oil & gas
A plate that fits in the rotary table and holds the drill bit while it is being unscrewed from the drill collar.
Industry:Oil & gas
A device attached to the catshaft of the drawworks that is used as a power source for the tongs used in unscrewing drill pipe; usually located opposite the driller’s side of the drawworks.
Industry:Oil & gas
A large funnel- or cone-shaped device into which dry components (such as powdered clay or cement) can be poured to later mix with water or other liquids. The dry component is educted through a nozzle at the bottom of the hopper.
Industry:Oil & gas
Any object or device that blocks a hole or passageway (such as a cement plug in a borehole).
Industry:Oil & gas
A petroleum- or water-bearing formation of relatively low porosity and permeability.
Industry:Oil & gas
Deviation of the borehole from vertical so that the borehole penetrates a productive formation in a manner parallel to the formation.
Industry:Oil & gas
