Fishing assembly:

Terms Related to Fishing assembly

• Fishing string

  An assembly of tools made up on drill pipe that is lowered into the hole to retrieve lost or stuck equipment. Also call a fish ...

• Fishing-tool operator

  The person (usually a service company employee) in charge of directing fishing operations.

• Wall hook

  A device used in fishing for drill pipe. If the upper end of the lost pipe is leaning against the side of the wellbore, the ...

• Back-off

  To unscrew drillstring components downhole. The drillstring, including drillpipe and the bottomhole assembly, are coupled by various threadforms known as connections, or tool joints. Often ...

• Work string

  The string of drill pipe tubing suspended in a well to which is attached a special tool or device that is used to carry out ...

• Workover string

  The string of drill pipe or tubing suspended in a well to which is attached a special tool or device that is used to carry ...

• Mousetrap

  A fishing tool used to recover a pared string of sucker rods from a well.