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MUD HOSE [4 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 2011-05-31

English

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

On a rotary drilling rig, the hose that conducts the drilling fluid from the mud pump and standpipe to the swivel and kelly...

DEF

A reinforced, flexible rubber tube through which drilling mud flows from the stand pipe to the gooseneck ...

French

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

Flexible servant à raccorder le sommet de la colonne montante à la tête d'injection.

OBS

Il est généralement en caoutchouc, muni de puissantes armatures en acier, pour lui permettre de résister aux pressions élevées et équipé d'embouts spéciaux filetés à leurs extrémités.

Spanish

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Record 3 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 4 2000-03-27

English

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

The vertical pipe rising along the side of the derrick or mast that joins the mud pump to the rotary hose and through which mud is pumped.

French

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

Spanish

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