Related Oil & Gas Terms

• Field facility

  An installation designed for one or more specific and limited extraction units, scrubbers, absorbers, drip points, conventional single or multiple stage separation units, ltx low temperature separators, and other types of separation and recovery equipment....

• Indicator

  1.a dial gauge used on the rig to measure the hookload. 2. substances in acid-base that, in solution, change color or become colorless as the hydrogen ion concentration reaches a definite value, these values varying with the indicator. in other titrations, such as chloride, hardness, and other determinations, these substances change color at the end...

• Gel

  A semisolid, jelly-like state assumed by some colloidal dispersions at rest. when agitated, the gel converts to a fluid state. also a nickname for bentonite....

• Thixotropy

  The property exhibited by a fluid that is in a liquid state when flowing and in a semisolid, gelled state when at rest. most drilling fluids must be thixotropic so that cuttings will remain in suspension when circulation is stopped....

• Density

  The mass or weight of a substance per unit volume. for instance, the density of a drilling mud may be 10 pounds per gallon (ppg), 74.8 pounds per cubic foot (lb/ft), or 1,198.2 kilograms per cubic meter (kg/m3). specific gravity, relative density, and api gravity are other units of density....