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WASHOVER [11 records]

Record 1 2023-08-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Management
  • Geomorphology and Geomorphogeny
  • Oceanography
CONT

Barrier island restoration involves building a primary dune from washover deposits, accompanied by the construction of a cellular retaining basin that will be filled with sediment from backbarrier and nearshore areas... After sufficient leaching and settlement, vegetation is planted on the primary dune and backbarrier surfaces to stabilize the sediment.

PHR

barrier island restoration project

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion environnementale
  • Géomorphologie et géomorphogénie
  • Océanographie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión del medio ambiente
  • Geomorfología y geomorfogénesis
  • Oceanografía
CONT

El Plan Maestro también analizó aproximadamente 250 proyectos de restauración, incluyendo la estabilización de bancos arenosos, restauración de islas barrera, realineación de canales, [...].

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Record 2 2001-02-08

English

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

A fishing tool attached to washover pipe by means of slips and released from the pipe once the fish is engaged by the tool. It provides a way to perform a washover and retrieve a stuck fish off the bottom in one round trip.

French

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

Spanish

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Record 3 2000-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

The operation in which stuck drill stem or tubing is freed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole
DEF

Procédé de repêchage des tiges coincées dans un puits, au moyen d'une couronne de diamants qui les dégage en forant autour d'elles.

CONT

Le surforage est utilisé pour supprimer les terrains qui coincent les tiges. Il se pratique avec un tubage spécial muni d'un sabot denté, le tout éventuellement fixé à un train de tige normal.

Spanish

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Record 4 2000-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

To remove the drill stem from the hole while the blowout preventers are closed. To pull the drill stem and the washover pipe out of the hole at the same time.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole

Spanish

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Record 5 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 6 2000-02-09

English

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

A fishing tool that is made up in a length of washover pipe... connected to the top of the fish...

French

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

Spanish

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Record 7 2000-02-09

English

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

An accessory used in fishing operations to go over the outside of tubing or drill pipe that is stuck in the hole because of cuttings, mud, etc., that have collected in the annulus. The washover pipe cleans the annular space and permits recovery of the pipe.

French

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

Tube utilisé dans un forage pour dégager un «poisson» coincé.

Spanish

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Record 8 1999-03-24

English

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

French

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

Tubes spéciaux utilisés pour le nettoyage externe d'un «poisson».

Spanish

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Record 9 1998-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Oil Drilling
DEF

To release pipe that is stuck in the hole by running washover pipe. The washover pipe must have an outside diameter small enough to fit into the borehole, but its inside diameter must be large enough to fit over the diameter of the stuck pipe

French

Domaine(s)
  • Forage des puits de pétrole

Spanish

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Record 10 1991-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Water Pollution
  • Anti-pollution Measures
CONT

For the most part, splashover (oil overtops the boom) and drainage (direct loss of oil under the boom) should not occur....

CONT

Oil loss resulting from boom failure may be attributed to one or more of the following causes: underflow caused by currents; splash-over caused by wind or waves....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pollution de l'eau
  • Mesures antipollution
CONT

Dans la plupart des cas, les pertes d'hydrocarbures par rejaillissement (projection par-dessus le barrage) et par échappement laminaire (fuite d'hydrocarbures sous le barrage) ne devraient pas se produire [...]

Spanish

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Record 11 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Soils (Agriculture)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sols (Agriculture)

Spanish

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