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GLOSSARY
INDEX
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shale shaker, 52f, 57, 59f, 62, 80 layout of, 14
shear ram. See blind-shear ram blowout preventer. operation of, 14
sheaves, 26, 27, 29 overview of, 36, 37f, 50, 62
silicon-controlled rectifiers (SCRs), 12, 14, 79 rotating system and, 34f
siltstone, bits for, 48 using a saver sub in, 42
single-acting three-cylinder (triplex) pumps, 56, 57f torque, 8, 14
singles (single joints), 45 torque-converter drives, 11
skidding a rig, 2, 18 torquing up, 46
slipping the line, 31–32 tourpushers, 86, 92
slips, 43, 43f tours, 87, 90–91, 91f, 92
sloughing, 49, 53, 54 transformers for distributing power, 79
stabbing the drive shaft (into the drill stem), 36 transmission system, 25
stack, 65, 65f traveling block. See also blocks.
lowering or raising the drill stem, 31
standard derrick, 18 location of, 28f
standpipe, 52f, 57, 58f overview of, 27–28, 27f
stands of drill pipe, 45 purpose of, 20, 25
storage, 80, 81f, 83, 84 rotating system and, 34f
string-up, 29–31 slipping the line, 31
substructure, 12, 18, 31, 32 stringing up, 29, 30f
suction pit, 52f, 80 tripping out (the drill string), 2, 68, 89
supply reel, 29, 30f, 31 triplex pump. See single-acting three-cylinder
swivel (triplex) pumps.
circulating system and, 51, 52f, 57 tubing, 20
defined, 62 tugger, 23
in the drill stem, 44f tungsten carbide bit, 47
kelly and, 38f, 39f twelve-hour tour, 90–91, 91f, 92
location of, 28f
overview of, 35–36, 35f, 50 underbalanced drilling, 55
rotating system and, 34f upper kelly cock, 34f, 39f, 40, 40f, 44f
attaching to the traveling block, 28 upper upset (of the kelly), 44f
swivel stem, 44f
swivel sub, 44f venting, 74
viscosity of mud, 54
telescoping derrick, 18
thixotropic properties of muds, 54 wall cake, 54, 55
thribble, 45 washpipe, 36
tong-line pull, monitoring, 82 water-based drilling fluid, 54
tongs. See automated tongs; makeup tongs. weighting materials, 54, 80
tool joints, 34f, 36, 44f, 45, 46, 46f, 47 wellbore, 52f, 53
toolhouse, 83, 84 well-control equipment. See also blowout; blowout
toolpushers, 73, 83, 84, 86, 90, 92 preventer (BOP).
tools. See auxiliary equipment. accumulators, 69–70, 69f
top drive blowout preventers, 65–68
circulating system and, 51 chokes, 71–73, 71f, 72f
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