Related Oil & Gas Terms

• Cave-in

  The collapse of the walls of the wellbore....

• Pigging

  To force a device called a pig through a pipeline or a flow line for the purpose of cleaning the interior walls of the pipe, separating different products, or displacing fluids....

• Blowout

  1. an uncontrolled flow of gas, oil, or other well fluids into the atmosphere or into an underground formation. a blowout, or gusher, can occur when formation pressure exceeds the pressure applied to it by the column of drilling fluid. 2. an uncontrolled flow of reservoir fluids into the wellbore, and sometimes catastrophically to the surface....

• Diatomaceous earth

  An earthy deposit made up of the siliceous cell walls of one-celled marine algae called diatoms. it is used as an admixture for cement to produce a low-density slurry....

• Cement

  A powder, consisting of alumina, silica, lime, and other substances that hardens when mixed with water. extensively used in the oil industry to bond casing to the walls of the wellbore....