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Search Result for Rod Transfer Elevator
sub elevator
A small attachment on the rod-transfer equipment that picks up the rods after they are unscrewed from the string and then transfers them to the rod hanger, or reverses the procedure when going into the hole. See rod-transfer equipment.
elevator links
Cylindrical bars that support the elevators and attach them to the hook. Also called elevator bails.
LACT
Lease Automatic Custody Transfer, possible where measuring equipment installed at the point of transfer from lease to pipeline is so completely automated as not to require any manual activity or witnesses.
elevator bails
See elevator links
transfer
To lower pipe or tubing onto a downhole tool, transferring all or part of the hook load.
rod-transfer equipment
All the devices used to accomplish the moving of sucker rods form the elevators to the racking platform.
speed kit
A dual-speed traveling block, which permits one elevator to pick up stands as they are broken out while the traveling bock continues to move.
bail
1. a curved steel rod on top of the swivel that resembles the handle, or bail, of an ordinary bucket, but is much larger. Just as an ordinary bucket is hung from a hook by its bail, the swivel is hung from the traveling block's hook by its bail. Sometimes, the two steel rods (the links) that attach the elevator to the hook are also called bails.