- Industry: Education; Oil & gas
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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.
a centrifugal device, similar to a desander, used to remove very fine particles, or silt, from drilling fluid to lower the amount of solids in the fluid.
Industry:Oil & gas
the liquid circulated through the wellbore during rotary drilling and workover operations.
Industry:Oil & gas
the operation of hoisting the drill stem out of and returning it into the wellbore.
Industry:Oil & gas
a drill bit that has small industrial diamonds embedded in its cutting surface.
Industry:Oil & gas
a mixture of hydrochloric and/or hydrofluoric acids and surfactants used to remove wall cake from the wellbore.
Industry:Oil & gas
a well-servicing and workover rig that is mounted on a truck chassis.
Industry:Oil & gas
a tool used to shape, form, or finish other tools or pieces of metal. For example, a threading die is used to cut threads on pipe.
Industry:Oil & gas
the sheath of mud solids that forms on the wall of the hole when liquid from mud filters into the formation. Also called filter cake or wall cake.
Industry:Oil & gas
relatively small-diameter pipe that is run into a well to serve as a conduit for the passage of oil and gas to the surface.
Industry:Oil & gas
