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Record 1 2023-01-06

English

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

An expanding plug used in a well to seal off certain sections of the tubing or casing when cementing, acidizing, or when a production formation is to be isolated.

CONT

Packers are run through the tubing or casing, and when in position can be expanded mechanically or hydraulically against the pipe wall or the wall of the well bore.

CONT

Packers are classified according to their configuration, use, and method of setting and whether they are retrievable or permanent ...

French

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

Dispositif expansible servant à obturer un trou de forage ou à isoler un espace annulaire et qui permet une production, une injection ou un traitement contrôlés.

Spanish

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Record 2 2022-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Geological Prospecting
  • Geological Research and Exploration
DEF

A wireline log run in a well that already has casing cemented in.

OBS

Some cased-hole logs are gamma ray, compensated neutron, pulsed neutron and carbon/oxygen logs. A cased-hole log is in contrast to the more common openhole logs.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Prospection géologique
  • Recherches et prospections géologiques
CONT

Parmi les éléments essentiels de l'évaluation des puits, des gisements et des champs figurent les diagraphies et les levés en puits tubés ou ouverts menés à l'appui d’un programme d'acquisition des données relatives au puits à des fins de forage et, pour les champs en exploitation, les diagraphies en puits tubés menées durant la durée de vie opérationnelle d'un puits à l'appui d’un programme d’acquisition des données relatives au champ en question.

Spanish

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Record 3 2017-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ground-Drilling Facilities (Mining)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
DEF

A pulley, set of pulleys, or sheaves at the top of a drill derrick on and over which the hoist and/or other lines run.

CONT

The crown block is an assembly of sheaves mounted on beams at the top of the derrick. The drilling cable is reeved over the sheaves of the crown block alternately with the sheaves of the traveling block, which is hoisted and lowered in the derrick by means of the drilling cable.

CONT

At the top of the derrick there is a crown block containing pulley wheels over which are run three steel cables : the casing line..., the sand line..., and the drilling line...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Installations de forage minier
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
DEF

Ensemble des poulies de renvoi placées au sommet de l'appareil de forage.

CONT

[Un moufle fixe] composé [...] de poulies montées [...] sur un même axe [...] monté sur un bâti comprend une petite poulie fixée au-dessous du bâti et qui sert à la manœuvre du câble de curage.

Spanish

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Record 4 2016-02-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chutes, Spouts and Conveyors
DEF

a conveyor comprised of a series of skeleton or solid flights on an endless chain or other linkage which operates in horizontal, inclined, or vertical paths within a closely fitted casing for the carrying run. Bulk material is conveyed and elevated in a substantially continuous stream with a full cross-section of the casing.

OBS

en masse conveyor: Term standardized by the United States of America Standards and by ISO.

Key term(s)
  • redler
  • redler conveyer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Convoyeurs et goulottes (Manutention)
CONT

Dans les transporteurs en masse, le produit se déplace sous la forme d'une veine continue à l'intérieur d'une gaine de profil rectangulaire. L'élément moteur est constitué par une chaîne sans fin à maillons plats munie de traverses qui est entièrement noyée dans le produit. Il n'y a aucune action de raclage ou de dragage puisque le matériau se déplace de façon continue en une colonne solide en masse.

OBS

transporteur en masse : Terme normalisé par l'ISO et par l'AFNOR.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Transportadores y canaletas (Manutención)
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Record 5 2016-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Geophysics
DEF

An acoustic log of compressional wave amplitude run shortly after cementing well casing to evaluate the casing-to-cement and cement-to-formation bonds.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Géophysique
DEF

Enregistrement de la qualité de l'adhérence du ciment entre le tubage et la paroi du trou après la cimentation.

DEF

[...] diagraphie acoustique pour analyser la qualité de la cimentation des tubages.

Spanish

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Record 6 2012-05-16

English

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

A hydraulically operated tool that is run in above the fishing tool and anchored to the casing by slips.

CONT

The pulling tool exerts a strong upward pull on the fish by means of hydraulic power derived from fluid that is pumped down the fishing string.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 7 2012-05-16

English

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

The subassembly of a wellhead that supports the casing string when it is run into the wellbore. The casing hanger provides a means of ensuring that the string is correctly located and generally incorporates a sealing device or system to isolate the casing annulus from upper wellhead components.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
  • Outillage et équipement (Exploitation minière)

Spanish

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Record 8 2012-01-24

English

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

To recover bottomhole fluids, samples, or drill cuttings by lowering a cylindrical vessel called a bailer to the bottom of a well, filling it, and retrieving it.

CONT

Water must be present in the bottom of the hole to keep the rock fragments in suspension, and from time to time the excess water and rock particles must be bailed out.

CONT

At the top of the derrick there is a crown block containing pulley wheels over which are run three steel cables : the casing line..., the sand line for bailing out the well, and the drilling line...

French

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

Vider un forage des sédiments, détritus, eau et autres objets qui l'encombrent au moyen d'une cuiller à clapet.

PHR

Curer un puits.

Spanish

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Record 9 2011-12-20

English

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

A special steel tubing welded or screwed together and lowered into a borehole to prevent [the] entry of loose rock, gas, or liquid into the borehole or to prevent loss of circulation liquid into porous, cavernous, or crevassed ground.

CONT

There may be several strings of casing in a well, one inside the other. The first casing put in a well is called surface pipe which is cemented into place and serves to shut out shallow water formations and also as a foundation or anchor for all subsequent drilling activity.

CONT

Drilling is started by attaching a short drill collar and a large bit to the kelly and drilling a hole to about 50 ft. A length of large size casing is run into this and cemented to the formation. This is called the conductor.

OBS

casing: term standardized by ISO.

OBS

well casing: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

PHR

Casing rupture.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
  • Outillage et équipement (Exploitation minière)
  • Spéléologie
  • Hydrologie et hydrographie
DEF

Tube ou ensemble d'éléments tubulaires dont on revêt les parois internes d'un trou de forage afin de les consolider et qu'on fixe par cimentation de l'espace annulaire (entre tubage et parois).

CONT

Le cuvelage est utilisé pour empêcher l'arrivée des fluides contenus dans les couches supérieures de terrain ou pour éviter l'éboulement du trou. Il peut y avoir plusieurs séries de cuvelages, l'un à l'intérieur de l'autre dans un seul puits.

CONT

Au niveau d'une tête de forage sous-marine, les tubages sont toujours «posés» dans la tête de puits et cimentés dans cette position [...]

OBS

cuvelage : terme officiellement recommandé par le Gouvernement français.

OBS

cuvelage; tubage : termes normalisés par l'ISO.

OBS

tubage de puits : terme uniformisé par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

PHR

Rupture de tubage.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Equipo para extracción de petróleo y gas natural
  • Equipo y herramientas (Explotación minera)
  • Espeleología
  • Hidrología e hidrografía
DEF

Tubo de acero o plástico que se inserta permanentemente en el pozo después de taladrado. Su tamaño se especifíca de acuerdo a la dimensión de su diámetro interno.

CONT

La entubación de un pozo después de perforado se realizará de acuerdo con la naturaleza de los terrenos atravesados. El entubado debe aguantar la presión de las paredes verticales del pozo y servir de conductor para el agua que se extraerá con la bomba de su interior. [...] El entubado se hace generalmente con tuberías metálicas aunque actualmente se está generalizando la tubería de PVC de resistencia superior a cuatro atmósferas.

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Record 10 2011-07-20

English

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

The cable that is attached to the bailer, passed over a sheave at the top of the derrick, and spooled on the reel.

CONT

A cable tool rig... consists of a derrick to support the drilling line, the sand-line on which the bailer is run, and the casing line.

French

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

Câble auquel est attachée la cuiller de curage, dans le forage au câble.

Spanish

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Record 11 2011-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
  • Petroleum Technology - Equipment
DEF

Cylindrical, cagelike device secured around a well casing as it is run to keep the pipe centered in the borehole.

CONT

Casing centralizers are made with two bands that fit the pipe tightly with spring steel ribs that arch out to press against the wall of the borehole. As the pipe is kept centered, a more uniform cementing job is assured.

OBS

Centralizers are especially useful in deep or deviated holes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
  • Appareillage (Technologie pétrolière)
DEF

Dispositif à lames de ressort arquées ou à patins extensibles utilisé pour centrer un tubage à l'intérieur d'un forage afin d'assurer une cimentation plus uniforme.

Spanish

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Record 12 2005-08-17

English

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

A string of large diameter casing, typically 20 inches OD (508 mm), but sometimes larger, extending from the cellar deck in a jack-up drilling rig down into the borehole for about 60 metres.

CONT

The bit is fastened to the string ... The string hangs inside a casing called a conductor pipe.

CONT

Drilling is started by attaching a short drill collar and a large bit to the kelly and drilling a hole to about 50 ft. A length of large size casing is run into this and cemented to the formation. This is called the conductor.

French

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

Colonne de grand diamètre, enfoncée dans le sol sous-marin à la sortie du puits et émergeante, qui supporte la tête de puits située en surface.

CONT

Le tube conducteur qui, comme un entonnoir, guidera le trépan, s'insère dans le trou central [de la plaque de base].

PHR

Mise en place du tube conducteur.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Perforación de pozos petrolíferos
  • Equipo para extracción de petróleo y gas natural
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Record 13 2005-01-10

English

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

The principal component of a rotary, or rotary machine: used to turn the drill stem and support the drilling assembly.

CONT

The rotary table is situated in the center of the derrick floor immediately over the well bore and directly under the center of the derrick or mast. Its function is to support the weight of any pipe or casing run into the hole and to provide rotary motion to the drillpipe string via the kelly...

OBS

RT: ... abbreviation ... used in drilling reports.

French

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

[...] cette tige carrée est engagée dans une table de rotation située au niveau du plancher de la tour de sondage.

OBS

Le niveau supérieur de la table est en principe le niveau de référence pour la mesure des profondeurs.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Equipo para extracción de petróleo y gas natural
  • Perforación de pozos petrolíferos
DEF

Plataforma de las sondas petrolíferas que imprime movimiento giratorio a la barrena.

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Record 14 2004-09-07

English

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

The total footage of casing run in a well.

CONT

Casing is manufactured in lengths of about 30 ft, each length or joint being joined to another as casing is run in a well. The entire length of all the joints of casing is called the casing string.

CONT

The upper drill pipe is constantly moving vertically through the marine riser, the blowout preventers, the wellhead, and the casing strings.

CONT

If casing is needed lower down than the bottom of the previous casing, a new string of lining pipe must be extended into the well from the surface. Each additional casing string reduces the internal diameter of the well.

French

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

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Equipo para extracción de petróleo y gas natural
  • Perforación de pozos petrolíferos
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Record 15 2004-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

A method of preparing a well for production in which no production casing or liner is set opposite the producing formation. Reservoir fluids flow unrestricted into the open wellbore.

CONT

A stage in the preparation of a well for production. After the well has been cased, cemented and serviced, each productive horizon is completed by making permanent contact between it and the well core, and installing tubing and the appropriate equipment for controlling fluid flow. Contrast with each horizon may be achieved directly, in the case of a barefoot completion, or by perforating casing. Completions may be single or multiple completions and separate tubings are run according to the number of productive zones, while a so-called tubingless completion may also be effected...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
CONT

L'exploitant veille à ce que [...] dans le cas d'une complétion non tubée, le tubage de production soit installé à une profondeur calculée pour laisser un puisard d'au moins 15 mètres sous le niveau inférieur de la couche productive [...].

Spanish

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Record 16 2003-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Geological Research and Exploration
DEF

Conical-shaped cloth device used in cementing a drill column through perforations and preventing the cement from falling any lower.

CONT

... a cement basket is a funnel shaped rubber bucket which is provided with spring type fingers to hold the upper rim against the well wall. A basket is run on a string of casing... when it is desirable, for reasons such as protecting a formation from contamination, to cement the casing only above the point at which the basket is set.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Recherches et prospections géologiques
DEF

Écran conique en toile employé dans la cimentation d'une colonne de forage à travers les perforations, et empêchant le ciment de descendre au-dessous de son point de sortie.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Perforación de pozos petrolíferos
  • Investigaciones y prospecciones geológicas
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Record 17 2002-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

The drilling operations in which the hole size is smaller than the conventional hole diameter for a given depth.

OBS

This decrease in hole size enables the operator to run smaller casing thereby decreasing the cost of completion.

Key term(s)
  • slim hole drilling

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
DEF

Forage exécuté en petit diamètre.

OBS

Le terme «filiforage» est officiellement recommandé par le Gouvernement français.

Spanish

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Record 18 2001-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

Descriptive of wellbore in which a steel pipe, called casing, is run and cemented.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
PHR

Puits tubé.

Spanish

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Record 19 2001-03-15

English

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

Bootleg packer. A makeshift packer. When it is important to set a string of casing to shut off water between the lowest upperwater sand and the first oil sand, and at the same time it is necessary to run tubing through the open hole to the oil sand, it is often a practice to make an upturned, truncated cone of canvas or leather, the small end of which is the size of the outside of the tubing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)
OBS

[Dispositif] permettant de fermer les eaux autour des tubes de pompage.

Spanish

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Record 20 2000-08-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

To measure and record the total length of pipe, casing, or tubing that is to be run in a well.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole

Spanish

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Record 21 2000-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
  • Geological Research and Exploration
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

A series of drilling tools arranged for lowering into the hole.

DEF

The entire length of casing, tubing, or drill pipe run into the hole.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondage et forage miniers
  • Recherches et prospections géologiques
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
DEF

[Série d'outils de forage] comportant trépan, masse tige, coulisse de forage, douille de câble.

Spanish

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Record 22 2000-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

A wellbore in which casing has been run.

CONT

The radioactive logs have the advantage that they can be run in cased wells as well as in open holes.

OBS

Most wells are cased through the production zone or zones, and the casing is perforated as necessary.

Key term(s)
  • cased wellbore

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
CONT

Le profil d'un forage pétrolier dépend de sa profondeur [...] et de l'objectif visé. Il est défini dans le programme de forage et de tubage du puits qui précise les caractéristiques des différentes phases de forage successives entre lesquelles le trou est «tubé»; c'est-à-dire cuvelé par une colonne de tubes en acier.

Key term(s)
  • puits cuvelé

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Perforación de pozos petrolíferos
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Record 23 2000-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
  • Oil Production
DEF

Drill pipe, drill collars, casing, or tubing that has inadvertently become lodged immovably in the hole.

OBS

Sticking may occur while drilling is in progress, while casing is being run in the hole, or while the drill pipe is being hoisted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
  • Production pétrolière

Spanish

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Record 24 2000-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

To pull the drill stem out of the wellbore. This withdrawal is necessary to change the bit, change from bit to core barrel, to run electric logs, to prepare for a drill-stem test, to run casing, and for other reasons.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole

Spanish

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Record 25 2000-06-27

English

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

A temporary platform erected in the derrick or mast at an elevation of 20 to 40 ft above the derrick floor.

OBS

The derrickman or other crew member works on this board while casing is being run in a well. It may be simply a wooden board or a fabricated assembly of steel girders floored with antiskid material and powered electrically to raise or lower it to the desired level for stabbing pipe. A stabbing board serves the same purpose as a monkeyboard, or safety platform, but the former is only a temporary structure whereas the latter are permanent structures.

French

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

Plate-forme provisoire utilisée pour guider les tubages à visser.

Key term(s)
  • passerelle de tubages

Spanish

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Record 26 2000-04-26

English

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

A length of pipe whose bottom edge is serrated and/or dressed with a hard, cutting material that is run into the wellbore around the outside of stuck casing, pipe, or tubing in order to mill away the obstruction causing the pipe to be stuck.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 27 2000-04-26

English

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

Mills are run on drill pipe or tubing and are used for such purposes as grinding up debris in the hole, removing stuck portions of drill stem, removing sections of casing for sidetracking, and reaming out tight spots in casing. They are variously termed junk mills, reaming mills, etc., according to the use for which they were designed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Outillage (Extraction du pétrole et du gaz)

Spanish

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Record 28 2000-03-27

English

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

The tubular goods in which the pipe walls at the end where threads are to be cut are thickened(upset) on the inside to provide extra strength in the tool joints. Therefore the outside wall of the pipe is the same diameter throughout its length. Upset casing is normally run at the top of long strings in deep operations.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 29 2000-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Production
DEF

A single well from which two separate formations may be produced at the same time. Production from each zone is segregated by running two tubing strings with packers inside the single string of production casing, or one tubing string with a packer may be run, and the other zone produced through the annulus.

CONT

A miniaturized dual completion may be employed in which two separate 4 ½-in. or smaller casing strings are run and cemented in the same wellbore, or a dual tubingless completion could be utilized.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production pétrolière
DEF

Mise en production de deux couches superposées par deux colonnes parallèlement ou concentriquement dans l'espace annulaire du forage.

Spanish

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Record 30 1999-11-03

English

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

A wire rope used to support the drill tools.

CONT

The rig includes a square open tower or derrick... At the top of the derrick there is a crown block containing pulley wheels over which are run three steel cables : the casing line..., the sand line..., and the drilling line for raising and lowering the drilling tools.

CONT

The drilling line is raised and dropped by a walking-beam mechanism driven by a steam, gasoline, or diesel engine.

CONT

The cable drilling bit is made of a heavy bar of steel or iron 4 to 11 feet ... long, shaped to a blunt edge on one end. The other end has a tapered tool joint for attachment to the drilling cable.

CONT

The percussion bit is alternately lifted and dropped while suspended at the end of the drilling cable.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Câbles et chaînes (Composants mécaniques)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole

Spanish

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Record 31 1999-10-22

English

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

A device used in setting casing. It is run near the bottom of the casing and automatically admits drilling fluids into the casing as needed so the casing sinks rather than floats in the well.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 32 1999-10-22

English

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

A device similar to a differential fill-up collar, except it is run on the bottom of the casing and is incorporated into the guide shoe.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 33 1999-01-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

To run and cement casing at a certain depth in the wellbore.

CONT

It is customary to set casing in the completion of a producing well.

CONT

To pull the drill stem out of the wellbore... is necessary to change the bit,... to run electric logs,... to run casing, and for other reasons.

Key term(s)
  • set pipe

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
CONT

Au fur et à mesure que l'on fore un puits, il est nécessaire de le cuveler, c'est-à-dire d'en consolider les parois à l'aide d'une colonne de tubes d'acier. Cette opération dite de «tubage» doit être organisée avec soin puisque, le diamètre du forage s'en trouvant réduit, elle ne peut se renouveler qu'un nombre limite de fois.

Spanish

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Record 34 1998-12-16

English

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

The cementing operation that takes place immediately after the casing has been run into the hole; used to provide a protective sheath around the casing, to segregate the producing formation, and to prevent the migration of undesirable fluids.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 35 1998-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Construction Materials
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

The adherence of casing to cement and cement to formation; when casing is run in a well, it is set, or bonded, to the formation wall by means of cement.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matériaux de construction
  • Forage des puits de pétrole

Spanish

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Record 36 1998-08-15

English

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

... a downhole tool(composed primarily of slips, a plug mandrel, and a rubber sealing element) that is run and set in casing to isolate a lower zone while testing an upper section.

French

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

Outil de sondage qui consiste en une paire de coins de retenue et un ou plusieurs packers.

OBS

Le bouchon provisoire est employé pour obturer temporairement le sondage contre la pression de fond pendant qu'on installe ou qu'on enlève la tête de puits. On peut aussi l'employer pour isoler une section d'un puits pendant la fracturation ou l'acidification. On pose quelquefois des bouchons permanents, d'autres bouchons comportent des mécanismes permettant de les poser et de les récupérer.

Spanish

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