Flow lines:

Terms Related to Flow lines

• Gathering lines

  The flow lines which run from several wells to a single tank battery.

• Flow line

  The surface pipe through which oil travels from a well to processing equipment or to storage.

• Fusible plugs

  A thermal device employed on surface flow lines as part of an emergency shutdown.

• Scraper

  A device used to clean deposits of paraffin from tubing or flow lines (see pig or rabbit).

• Nomograph

  A chart that presents an equation containing a number of variables in the form of several straight lines. The straight lines are scaled with values ...

• Drilling spool

  A fitting placed in the blowout preventer stack to provide space between preventers for facilitating stripping operations, to permit attachment of choke and kill lines, ...

• Choke line

  1. A pipe attached to the blowout preventer stack out of which kick fluids and mud can be pumped to the choke manifold when a ...