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TUBAGE PUITS [2 records]

Record 1 2021-07-07

English

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

For the first time wellbore casing can serve as more than just a barrier between the inside and the outside of wellbore. [The] casing expansion technology ... can be employed for annular sealing, zone isolation and improved sealing of casing within casing.

Key term(s)
  • well bore casing
  • bore hole casing

French

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

Spanish

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Record 2 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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