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	<title>Oilfield Glossary &#124; Oil and Gas Glossary</title>
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	<description>If you are looking for a definition of any technical terms in oil &#38; gas field, then this site is yours.</description>
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		<title>Makeup cathead</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A device that is attached to the shaft of the drawworks and used as a power source for screwing together joints of pipe. It is usually located on the driller&#8217;s side of the drawworks. Also called spinning cathead. See cathead.]]></description>
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		<title>Blowout preventer operating and control system</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 06:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The assembly of pumps, valves, lines, accumulators, and other items necessary to open and close the blowout preventer equipment. Also called closing unit.]]></description>
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		<title>Igneous rock</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 17:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rock mass formed by the solidification of material poured (when molten) into the earth&#8217;s crust or onto its surface. Granite is an igneous rock.]]></description>
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		<title>Macaroni rig</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A workover rig, usually lightweight, that is specially built to run a string of 3/4 inch or 1-inch tubing. See macaroni string.]]></description>
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		<title>Poor boy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 13:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homemade; something done on a shoestring basis.]]></description>
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		<title>External cutter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fishing tool containing metal-cutting knives that is lowered into the hole and over the outside of a length of pipe to cut it. The severed part of the pipe can then be brought to the surface.]]></description>
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		<title>Gel strength</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 07:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A measure of the ability of a colloidal dispersion to develop and retain a gel form, based on its resistance to shear. The gel, or shear, strength of a drilling mud determines its ability to hold solids in suspension. Sometimes bentonite and other colloidal clays are added to drilling fluid to increase its gel strength.]]></description>
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		<title>Pressure gauge</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An instrument that measures fluid pressure and usually registers the difference between atmospheric pressure and the pressure of the fluid by indicating the effect of such pressures on a measuring element (e.g., a column of liquid, pressure in a bourdon tube, a weighted piston, or a diaphragm).]]></description>
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		<title>Propping agent</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A granular substance (sand grains, aluminum pellets, or other material) that is carried in suspension by the fracturing fluid and that serves to keep the cracks open when fracturing fluid is withdrawn after a fracture treatment.]]></description>
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		<title>Spud in</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 06:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To begin drilling; to start the hole.]]></description>
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