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HEAD CASING [15 records]

Record 1 2022-11-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
  • Oil and Natural Gas Extraction
CONT

Casing pressure testing is an important part of checking cementing quality. After installing the casing head and connecting the blowout preventer and the blowout preventer line, the pressure resistance check of the casing head seal and the seal pressure test connected with the blowout preventer are required.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)
  • Extraction du pétrole et du gaz naturel
CONT

Lorsque l'exploitant soupçonne qu'il y a usure excessive du tubage, il doit en avertir le délégué et procéder à un essai sous pression du tubage.

Spanish

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Record 2 - external organization data 2021-03-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Compartment – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Museums and Heritage (General)
OBS

casing head : an item in the "Mining and Mineral Harvesting Tools and Equipment" class of the "Tools and Equipment for Materials" category.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Tiroir – Nomenclature 4.0
  • Muséologie et patrimoine (Généralités)
OBS

tête de sonde : objet de la classe «Outils et équipement d'exploitation minière et d'extraction minérale» de la catégorie «Outillage et équipement pour le traitement des matières».

Spanish

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Record 3 2008-12-10

English

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

There are three principal types of augers used for well drilling : bucket augers, solid-stem augers, and hollow-stem augers.... Solid-stem augers consist of spiral flanges welded to a pipe. One length of pipe(or auger section) is called a flight; multiple auger sections are often referred to as continuous flighting. The leading auger flight has a special bit or cutter head attached that cuts a hole for the flights to follow. Flights are added as the hole is drilled deeper. Cuttings from the drilling process are brought to the surface by the action of the augers.... Hollow-stem augers are similar to solid-stem augers in design, except that drill rods can pass through the auger sections.... Because the flights are hollow, they can be used as temporary casing to hold the hole open while the permanent casing is installed. Wells drilled with hollow-stem augers have been used to construct water supply wells, but they are more often used to construct monitoring wells.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondage et forage miniers
  • Sondage et forage (Construction)
CONT

Il existe deux types de tarières : les tarières creuses et les tarières pleines. Le principal avantage des tarières creuses par rapport aux tarières pleines est de permettre l'installation du puits d'observation sans avoir à retirer les tarières du sol. L'utilisation des tarières pleines n'est possible que dans les matériaux cohésifs car les parois du forage doivent rester verticales assez longtemps pour mettre en place le puits d'observation, la lanterne de sable et le bouchon d'étanchéité.

CONT

Les tarières creuses sont des tarières continues avec une lumière centrale dans laquelle est introduit un train de tiges dont l'extrémité est munie d'un taillant. Ce taillant permet de forer les sols qui sont remontés en surface par le mouvement ascendant de l'hélicoïde. Si l'on désire prélever un échantillon de sol, le train de tiges est remonté, le taillant est remplacé par un outil de prélèvement de sols (un carottier par exemple) descendu jusqu'au fond du forage.

OBS

tarière : Instrument qui sert à faire des forages, des sondages dans le sol.

Spanish

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Record 4 2005-03-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Natural Gas and Derivatives
  • White Products (Petroleum)
DEF

Low-boiling liquid petroleum product extracted from natural gas. [Definition standardized by ISO.]

CONT

absorption process : A method of treating wet gas by passing it through an absorber in which large surfaces of mineral seal oil or a similar oil are exposed and absorb the heaviest fraction of the gas. This is later distilled from the oil and is known as casing-head gasoline.

OBS

[These] liquid hydrocarbons ... are extracted from casinghead gas.

OBS

In its "wild" or unstabilized condition, it contains fairly high proportions of propane and butane. The removal of the propane yields a stabilized gasoline.

OBS

Not to be confused with "natural gas."

OBS

natural gasoline; casing head gasoline : terms standardized by ISO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gaz naturel et dérivés
  • Produits blancs (Pétrole)
DEF

Produit pétrolier liquide à bas point d'ébullition extrait du gaz naturel. [Définition normalisée par l'ISO.]

OBS

Non stabilisée, elle contient des quantités assez élevées de propane et de butane. Après élimination du propane, on obtient une essence stabilisée.

OBS

essence naturelle : terme normalisé par l'ISO.

Spanish

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Record 5 2005-01-31

English

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

A heavy, steel, flanged fitting that connects to the first string of casing (that string nearest the surface) and provides a housing for the slips and packing assemblies by which intermediate strings of casing are suspended and the annulus sealed off.

OBS

bradenhead: ... now obsolete, casinghead being the preferred expression.

French

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

Assemblage métallique de surface comprenant une ou plusieurs vannes et qui permet d'isoler le puits du milieu ambiant.

Spanish

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Record 6 2004-07-26

English

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

The operation of attempting to recover a piece of drilling or other equipment broken off or lost from the drilling tools and left in the hole.

CONT

Many types of fishing jobs can occur ranging from a single cutter lost from a bit head to a portion of a string of casing parted after being struck.

CONT

This wear resulted from working through the casing for 33 days, which required 220 hours of rotating in the casing and 212 hours of tripping. This long exposure of the surface casing resulted from a fishing job ...

CONT

In a well being drilled, the most common fishing operation is that required by the loss of a bit, one or more drill collars, or a part of the string of drill pipe. In reconditioning a well, it is often necessary to fish for packers, liners, screen pipe, etc.

CONT

Some of the reasons a hole may be lost are a blowout or an unsuccessful fishing job.

French

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

Opération destinée à retirer d'un sondage les parties d'outil ou objets étrangers qui gênent la continuation du forage.

CONT

En cours de forage, il est fréquent d'assister à des coincements et à des ruptures du train de tiges [...] Le repêchage de tout objet resté dans le trou de sonde prend le nom d'instrumentation, opération très délicate.

OBS

Lorsque l'instrumentation s'avère trop longue et trop onéreuse, il faut se résigner à boucher le trou avec du ciment et à reprendre le forage en déviation au-dessus du poisson.

Spanish

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Record 7 2004-01-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petroleum Deposits
  • Natural Gas and Derivatives
DEF

Low pressure gas produced at the well head of a well that is primarily oil-producing, it helps to bring oil to the surface and is rich in heavy hydrocarbons.

CONT

Casing head gas can be employed to power equipment on the rig; it can be compressed and reinjected to help oil flow, or it is sometimes flared.

OBS

casing-head gas : So named as it is usually collected, or separated from the oil, at the casing head.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gisements pétrolifères
  • Gaz naturel et dérivés
DEF

Gaz enfermé par la tête de tubage ou, en général, gaz de toute couche sus-jacente au pétrole.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Yacimientos petrolíferos
  • Gas natural y derivados
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Record 8 2003-06-20

English

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

The equipment used to maintain surface control of a well.

OBS

It is formed of the casing head and tubing head. The Christmas tree is affixed to the top of the tubing head.

Key term(s)
  • well head

French

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

Partie supérieure d'un puits de pétrole.

CONT

Tête de puits (équipement de l'entrée d'un puits, soit en cours de forage, soit en cours de production; plus spécialement pièce cylindrique fixée sur le premier tubage et destinée à recevoir les tubages suivants).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Equipo para extracción de petróleo y gas natural
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Record 9 2001-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Production
CONT

Once backpressure was put on the formation, it shut the production down. In our particular case, one of the reasons it did was that we had low formation pressure. We developed a casing blow system in which instead of conveying the flash steam for the well bore to the atmosphere to keep the pressure off the formation, we started collecting that casing head steam and its accompanying distilled products.

Key term(s)
  • casing blow

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production pétrolière
OBS

Purge: Action de purger, d'évacuer, de vidanger l'eau, l'air, le gaz d'une tuyauterie, d'un récipient etc.

OBS

Équivalent proposé par Henri Dumas, traducteur à la Section multilingue-française.

Spanish

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Record 10 2000-07-12

English

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

A blowout-prevention device consisting of a gland and packing arrangement bolted to the wellhead.

CONT

A stripper head is often used to seal the annular space between tubing and casing when working on a well.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 11 2000-04-25

English

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

A specially fabricated length of casing or tubing that is usually temporarily placed above a valve on top of the casing or tubing head.

CONT

Lubricators are used to run tools or substances into a producing well without having to kill the well (make it stop producing). For this reason, lubricators afford a method of sealing off pressure yet still allow the passage of a device, usually on a wire line, or substance into the well.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 12 1987-08-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
  • Mining Equipment and Tools
  • Scientific Measurements and Analyses
  • Oil Production
DEF

... a packer assembly which is set in the open hole or in a casing above the producing formation whereby the hydrostatic head of the mud column is contained and thus allows fluid from the formation to flow freely into the test string and to surface where it can be measured and analysed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondage et forage miniers
  • Outillage et équipement (Exploitation minière)
  • Mesures et analyse (Sciences)
  • Production pétrolière
DEF

Dispositif de mise en évidence des fluides imprégnant une formation et de leur pression vierge.

Spanish

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Record 13 1986-11-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rough Carpentry

French

Domaine(s)
  • Charpenterie

Spanish

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Record 14 1986-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Pumps
  • Hydraulic Hoisting and Lifting
DEF

A fixed or removable casting in a pump between the impeller and the casing with liquid passages designed to convert velocity head to pressure head.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pompes
  • Levage hydraulique
DEF

Dans une pompe, pièce moulée, fixe ou mobile, entre l'impulseur et le carter, comportant des passages pour le liquide et conçue pour transformer la hauteur de charge due à la vitesse en hauteur de charge de pression.

Spanish

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Record 15 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Scientific and Technical Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire technique et scientifique général

Spanish

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