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MUD CIRCULATION [7 records]

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Record 1 2017-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

An assembly of hole boring equipment used for drilling for oil or gas.

CONT

The principal components of a rig are... a derrick, the drawworks, with its drilling line, crown and traveling blocks, a drilling fluid circulation system, including standpipe, flexible hose, mud tanks and pumps.

CONT

Before cable-tool drilling can begin, a rig must be set at the site. The rig includes a square open tower or derrick about 70 to 180 feet (20-25 meters) high and 20 to 28 feet (6-8.5 meters) square at the bottom.

CONT

The term "drilling unit" as used herein is intended to mean the complete structure of any mobile unit used for drilling purposes, whether afloat or supported by the sea bed and includes all components such as the drilling deck, deck houses, lower decks, barge hulls, caissons, footings, columns, lower hulls, legs, bottom pads or lower mats.

CONT

Types of Drilling Units: ... Self-elevating Drilling Units ...; Column Stabilized Drilling Units ...; Surface Type Drilling Units ...: (a) Ship Type Drilling Unit ...; (b) Barge Drilling Units ...

Key term(s)
  • drill rig

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
DEF

Ensemble des installations de forage.

CONT

L'installation de forage est conçue pour permettre la manœuvre de la garniture de forage, pour le chargement des trépans, la rotation de la garniture et l'injection du fluide de forage.

CONT

L'appareil de forage a été placé sur une plate-forme ou sur un navire.

OBS

appareil : forme abrégée utilisée couramment par les foreurs pour désigner l'appareil de forage.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Perforación de pozos petrolíferos
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Record 2 2011-07-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

The movement of drilling fluid out of the mud pits, down the drill stem, up the annulus, and back to the mud pits.

OBS

Normal circulation is downward through the drill stem and back to the surface through the annulus. In some cases, the mud is pumped downward through the annulus and returned to the drill stem, a procedure called reverse circulation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
DEF

Trajet en circuit fermé emprunté par la boue de forage.

OBS

Cette circulation peut être normale ou inversée.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Perforación de pozos petrolíferos
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Record 3 2011-03-30

English

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

[Fibertex™ is] a fibrous material used as an additive to rotary drilling mud to prevent or restore lost circulation in gravelly, fractured, or creviced formations.

OBS

Fibertex™: A trademark of Fibertex A/S.

Key term(s)
  • Fibertex

French

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

[FibertexMC est] un colmatant pour boues de forage à base de matières fibreuses.

OBS

FibertexMC : Marque de commerce de la société Fibertex A/S.

Spanish

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Record 4 2006-03-06

English

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

A rig that drills for oil and gas.

CONT

An oil rig is a contraption which makes a hole in the ground to allow one to retrieve profitable quantities of oil or gas. It may be as simple as a hammer and a basket lowered on a cable (a "cable tool", still used ... in some parts of West Virginia), but since 1900 a "rig" refers to a rotary drilling rig, wherein a bit is screwed onto the bottom of some pipe, and the pipe is turned at the surface ("rotary") and the whole "drill string" drills a hole into the ground.

OBS

rig : 1. An assembly of hole boring equipment used for drilling for oil or gas. The principal components of a rig... comprise a derrick, the drawworks, with its drilling line, crown and travelling blocks, and a drilling fluid circulation system, including standpipe, flexible hose, mud tanks and pumps.... 2. A self-contained unit equipped with hole boring equipment and used for drilling for oil or gas offshore.

French

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

Installation située en mer où sont menées les opérations d'exploration et d'exploitation de gisements d'hydrocarbures.

CONT

Les plates-formes pétrolières construites dans des chantiers spécialisés à terre, sont amenées en mer, soit sur barges, soit en remorque. Elles sont utilisées pour le forage, la production, le traitement, le stockage, le chargement et l'habitation.

OBS

Pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Key term(s)
  • plateforme pétrolière

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Perforación de pozos petrolíferos
  • Equipo para extracción de petróleo y gas natural
Key term(s)
  • plataforma petrolera
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Record 5 2005-02-16

English

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

To start the mud pump to restore circulation of the mud column.

OBS

Because the stagnant drilling fluid has solidified during the period of no circulation, a high pump pressure is usually required to break circulation.

French

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

(de la boue de forage).

Spanish

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Record 6 2001-03-27

English

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

An accessory attached to the top of the drill pipe or tubing to form a connection with the mud system to permit circulation of the drilling mud.

French

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

Dispositif fixé en tête de tubage et destiné à permettre la continuation d'un forage contre une forte pression de gaz et du circuit de boue sans risque d'éruption.

Spanish

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Record 7 1978-01-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Boring and Drilling (Mines)
  • Geological Research and Exploration
  • Economic Geology
OBS

A continental method of shaft sinking through sand which is water-bearing. The shaft is formed by boring in stages, increasing in sizes from the pilot hole of about 4 feet in diameter to the final excavation size. Once the shaft is bored, mud flush circulation continues while the lining is lowered. The lining consists of two steel cylinders, one within the other, and the annular space is filled with concrete. The cylinders are lowered into the shaft and 10-foot lengths are added and welded in position at the shaft top.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sondage et forage miniers
  • Recherches et prospections géologiques
  • Géologie économique
OBS

Le procédé Honigmann permet de réaliser, jusqu'à 500 m de profondeur, des forages dont le diamètre dépasse 6 m. Il a été utilisé, pour la première fois, en 1942 en Allemagne, par la «Rheinische Braunkohlen-Tiefban G.m.b.M.» pour le fonçage dans les sables boulants du puits I de la concession «Union 103» [...]. La méthode consiste à forer à l'eau lourde des trous de diamètre de plus en plus grand, chacun d'eux atteignant la profondeur désirée. Le forage initial de 0,70 m de diamètre est ainsi successivement élargi à 2 m, 3,5 m, 5 m et 6,15 m. L'outil de perforation entraîné par une table de rotation comporte, suivant la nature des terrains, quatre ou six branches sur lesquelles sont fixés des couteaux amovibles. Au-dessus de lui, un tambour métallique sert de guide [...]. La grande particularité du procédé se trouve dans la circulation de boue qui [...] se fait au moyen d'un émulseur disposé dans la partie supérieure des tiges, système qui convient très bien pour les élargissements successifs, les débris tombant dans le forage en cours d'élargissement.

Spanish

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