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ROPE DRILLING [10 records]

Record 1 2017-12-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
  • Outfitting of Ships
DEF

Cable connecting anchor with drill barge, float or other vessel, or drilling tower.

CONT

Mooring lines consisting of wire rope, chain, or a combination of the two have been successfully used in floating drilling. Recently, synthetic fiber rope has been considered for mooring lines in combination with chain at the anchor end...

OBS

mooring line: terminology to be used by the Department of National Defence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
  • Armement et gréement
CONT

Pentagone, comme tous les semi-submersibles jusqu'à présent, est maintenue en station par un encombrant système de lignes d'ancrage composé de câbles, de chaînes et d'ancres.

OBS

amarre : terminologie d'usage obligatoire au ministère de la Défense nationale.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Equipo para extracción de petróleo y gas natural
  • Equipo y aparejos (Transporte por agua)
DEF

Cuerda o cable con que se asegura una embarcación en el puerto o lugar donde se da fondo, ya sea con el ancla o sujetada a la tierra.

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Record 2 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mining Equipment and Tools
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

The iron rod to which the bit is attached in rope drilling.

Key term(s)
  • drilling stem

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage et équipement (Exploitation minière)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
OBS

Dans le forage au câble.

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-04-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

The equipment (as anchors, chain, wire line, buoys, etc.) by which a floating offshore drilling rig is maintained on location at the drilling site.

CONT

Semisubmersibles permit drilling to be carried out in very deep waters and they are held on location either by a conventional mooring system or by dynamic positioning. The conventional mooring system(FIG-1-16) usually consists of 8 anchors placed in spread pattern and connected to the hull by chain or wire rope, sometimes even a combination of both.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
CONT

Ancrage. [...] Deux systèmes [...] sont en présence: Tout d'abord, l'ancrage funiculaire classique, prévu pour 200 m d'eau, basé sur un ensemble de 8 lignes d'ancrage composées de chaînes ou de câbles d'environ 1200 m de long, de 3" de diamètre [et équipées] d'ancres de 15 tonnes [...] Ensuite, l'ancrage dynamique qui, apparu en 1972 pour les forages pétroliers, est parfaitement au point.

CONT

Pentagone, comme toutes les semi-submersibles jusqu'à présent, est maintenue en station par un encombrant système de lignes d'ancrage composé de câbles, de chaînes et d'ancres.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Perforación de pozos petrolíferos
CONT

Existen diferentes sistemas de anclaje, algunos están compuestos por cadenas reforzadas con cables unidas a pequeñas torres que se encuentran en el barco [...]

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Record 4 2015-03-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
  • Mining Equipment and Tools
DEF

A piece of drilling equipment in which the drill is raised by a rope or cable and allowed to drop, pulverizing the rock with successive blows.

CONT

The earliest type of drilling bit was the percussion bit for cable-tool drilling. The percussion bit is alternately lifted and dropped while suspended at the end of the drilling cable.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
  • Outillage et équipement (Exploitation minière)
Key term(s)
  • sonde de battage

Spanish

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Record 5 2005-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
CONT

Drilling equipment is subjected to stress and vibration during operations. Maintenance is a necessary and ongoing activity on the drilling site. Maintenance activities include maintaining the : Rig Floor; Drilling Line Maintenance; Wire rope maintenance; Mud Circulating System; Generator, Electric Motors and Electrical Systems Engines; Derrick Equipment Maintenance.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Sondage et forage miniers
CONT

Un équipement de forage [...] permettrait de creuser un plus grand nombre de puits. Mais une foreuse mécanique coûte 25000$.

Spanish

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Record 6 2001-08-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

A short rope used on the cathead of the drilling rig to tighten pipe joints by pulling on the makeup tongs.

OBS

When the driller activates the cathead, the cathead pulls on the jerk line with great force to apply torque to break out a tool joint (or to tighten a drill collar connection).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
DEF

Câble du cabestan automatique.

DEF

Câble d'acier ou de chanvre qui actionne la chaîne de vissage des tiges à l'aide d'une poupée de cabestan du treuil.

Spanish

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Record 7 2000-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chains and Cables (Mechanical Components)
  • Construction
DEF

... a small 6 x 7 wire rope with a wire strand core ... used to provide greater resistance to crushing and distortion of the wire rope.

DEF

A type of construction of steel drilling lines or wire rope that provides a separate wire rope that serves as a core for the drilling line and prevents it from being crushed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Câbles et chaînes (Composants mécaniques)
  • Construction

Spanish

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Record 8 2000-02-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

To shear off; said of cable tools that part at the eye of the drill stem as a result of drilling with a slack line. The cable tools always break above the rope socket.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondage et forage miniers
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
DEF

[En parlant] d'outils de forage au câble [se séparer] au-dessus de l'attache-câble par suite de jeu dans le train de tiges.

Spanish

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Record 9 1999-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chains and Cables (Mechanical Components)
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

A heavy rope or cable from which a cable drill and stem are suspended and by means of which they are lifted and dropped, or churned up and down, in drilling a borehole.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Câbles et chaînes (Composants mécaniques)
  • Sondage et forage miniers
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
DEF

Câble de transmission rond en chanvre entraînant le tambour de forage depuis l'arbre-manivelle de la machine au câble.

Spanish

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Record 10 1987-07-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
CONT

A system of oil-well drilling differing from the American cable system, in that wooden rods screwed together are used instead of a rope. The Canadian pole is useful all-round prospecting rig, and it is particularly suitable for regions where excessive caving makes it necessary to have some positive method of rotating the bit.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
CONT

[...] les procédés employés pour la réalisation des forages profonds (500 à 2000 m) [...] sont les procédés : - pennsylvanien (forage au câble), - canadien (forage aux tiges pleines). [...] la perforation se fait au trépan [...] fixé à des tiges pleines dans le canadien.

CONT

Avec le procédé «canadien», les chocs du trépan au fond du trou sont isolés par une coulisse qui lâche l'outil en position haute et le rattrape après sa chute. Ces chocs, nuisibles à la bonne conservation du matériel, se produisent ainsi uniquement sur l'outil spécialement conçu à cet effet.

Spanish

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