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• Desander

  A centrifugal device for removing sand from drilling fluid to prevent abrasion of the pumps. It may be operated mechanically or by a fast-moving stream ...

• Methane

  A light, gaseous, flammable paraffinic hydrocarbon that has a boiling point of -25 degrees f and is the chief component of natural gas and an ...

• Unloading a well

  Removing fluid from the tubing in a well, often by means of a swab, to lower the bottomhole pressure in the wellbore at the perforations ...

• Stripping out

  1. The process of raising the drill stem out of the wellbore when the well is shut in on a kick. 2. The process of ...

• Drip

  Equipment designed to remove small quantities of liquids from a gas stream.

• Paraffin

  A saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon

• Desilter

  A centrifugal device for removing very fine particles, or silt, from drilling fluids to keep the amount of solids in the fluid at the lowest ...