- Industrie: 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.
to measure and record the total length of pipe, casing, or tubing that is to be run in a well.
Industry:Oil & gas
a person who by training and experience is authorized to operate the crane and who may be in charge of the roustabout crew.
Industry:Oil & gas
a specially fabricated length of casing or tubing usually placed temporarily above a valve on top of the casinghead or tubing head. It is used to run swabbing or perforating tools into a producing well and provides a method for sealing off pressure and thus should be rated for highest anticipated pressure.
Industry:Oil & gas
a tap with a gradually decreasing diameter from the top. It is used to retrieve a hollow fish such as a drill collar and is the male counterpart of a die collar. The taper tap is run into a hollow fish and rotated to cut enough threads to provide a firm grip and permit the fish to be pulled and recovered.
Industry:Oil & gas
an arm keyed at right angles to a shaft and used for changing radius of rotation or changing reciprocating motion to circular motion or circular motion to reciprocating motion. On a beam pumping unit, the crank is connected by the pitman to the walking beam, thereby changing circular motion to reciprocating motion.
Industry:Oil & gas
a string of tubing or pipe, usually 3/4 or 1 inch (1.9 or 2.54 centimeters) in diameter.
Industry:Oil & gas
a fitting, usually divided into two halves, that crew members place inside the master bushing to hold the slips.
Industry:Oil & gas
a steel member connected to each end of the shaft extending from each side of the speed reducer on a beam pumping unit.
Industry:Oil & gas
to attach a joint or stand of drill pipe onto the drill stem suspended in the wellbore to permit deepening the wellbore by the length of the pipe.
Industry:Oil & gas
