Talk:Glossary of oilfield jargon

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Perhaps this ought to become a list? Rodface (talk) 21:37, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Undefined jargon
Here are some terms needing definition somewhere: "I' am ESDing." Hanger can refer to tubing hanger without the abbreviation TBG or CSG you don't know which one. There is a tubing hanger as well.
 * BOED and MM BOE - used unexplained in Petrobras; probably related to Barrel of oil equivalent, but how exactly?
 * BOED is barrels of oil per day
 * MM is the number 1,000
 * BOE is barrels of oil
 * bump, can refer to calibrating a 4 gas monitor.
 * CCU, cargo carrying unit
 * centralizer
 * cmt abbreviation for cement
 * csg abbreviation for casing, not to be confused with Coal Seam Gas
 * displacement
 * EDS, emergency disconnect system or switch, noun and verb, as in "I am EDSing"
 * ESD, emergency shut down (maybe electrical equipment)
 * IBOP
 * J-Lay and S-Lay, methods used by a pipe-laying ship
 * hanger, assumed to be same as a casing hanger
 * moonpool
 * plug, surface plug

-84user (talk) 04:13, 20 June 2010 (UTC) - more added -84user (talk) 01:13, 21 June 2010 (UTC) yet more added -84user (talk) 23:10, 25 June 2010 (UTC)  and yet more -84user (talk) 13:51, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * pre-salt layer meaning rocks lying under a salt layer related to "subsalt"?
 * splash, as in "when the BOP was splashed"; splash zone (part of marine structure which sometimes gets wet?)
 * stroke
 * TD is short for Total depth, as in the TD the drill has reached
 * TBGD, tubing landing depth
 * transect, used in the path sense, as in "migration of oil and gas along the N-S Gulf of Mexico transect"
 * U-tube

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