Oil & Gas Glossary 1.0

2. a stripper head.

3. a column wherein absorbed constituents are stripped from absorption off. The term is applicable to columns using a stripping medium, such as steam or gas.

2. the pressure-sealing element of a stripper blowout preventer See stripper head.

2. a stripper head.

1. a well nearing depletion that produces a very small amount of oil or gas, usually ten barrels per day or less.

3. a column wherein absorbed constituents are stripped from absorption off. The term is applicable to columns using a stripping medium, such as steam or gas.

A blowout prevention device consisting of a gland and packing arrangement bolted to the wellhead. It is often used to seal the annular space between tubing and casing.

A device closed around the rods when the well may flow through the tubing while the rods are being pulled. It is a form of blowout preventer.

1. a rubber disk surrounding drill pipe or tubing that removes mud as the pipe is brought out of the hole.

A preventer having a unit of packing material whose closure depends on well pressure coming from below. It is used primarily to strip pipe through the hole or allow pipe to be moved with pressure on the annulus.

(n) a device with an elastomer packing element that depends on pressure below the packing to effect a seal in the annulus. Used primarily to run or pull pipe under low or moderate pressures. This device is not dependable for service under high differential pressures. Also called a stripper.

1. to force pipe or tools into a high-pressure well that has not been killed (i.e., to run pipe or tools into the well against pressure when the weight of pipe is not great enough to force the pipe through the BOPs). Snubbing usually requires an array of wireline bocks and wire rope that forces the pipe or tools into the well through a stripper head or blowout preventer until the weight of the string is sufficient to overcome the lifting effect of the well pressure on the pipe in the preventer. In workover operations, snubbing is usually accomplished by using hydraulic power to force the pipe through the stripping head or blowout preventer.