Oil & Gas Glossary
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Oil & Gas Analytics
Decline Curve Analysis
Drilling analytics
Drilling optimization
Energy industry analytics
Energy market forecasting
EUR (Estimated Ultimate Recovery)
Flow Regimes
Formation evaluation
Oil and gas data analysis
Production forecasting
Recovery Factors
Reserves estimation and analytics
Reservoir Characterization
Reservoir engineering analytics
Reservoir modeling
Type Curves
Well cost estimation
Well design
Well Integrity
Well intervention
Well planning
Well testing
Wellbore trajectory
Drilling analytics
Drilling optimization
Energy industry analytics
Energy market forecasting
EUR (Estimated Ultimate Recovery)
Flow Regimes
Formation evaluation
Oil and gas data analysis
Production forecasting
Recovery Factors
Reserves estimation and analytics
Reservoir Characterization
Reservoir engineering analytics
Reservoir modeling
Type Curves
Well cost estimation
Well design
Well Integrity
Well intervention
Well planning
Well testing
Wellbore trajectory
Oil & Gas Industry
Abandonment
API (American Petroleum Institute)
API Gravity
Appraisal well
Asset Development
Asset Operations
Barrel
BBL
BCF
BCM
Bitumen
Block
Blow-out
BOPD (Barrels of Oil Per Day)
CAPEX
Casing
Christmas Tree
Clastic
Condensate
Contingent resources
Conventional Oil
Crude Oil
Derrick
Development Well
Downstream
Drilling
Dry Gas
Dry hole
E&P
Elephant
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
Exploration
Facility Decommissioning
Flaring
Flowlines
Fracking (Hydraulic Fracturing)
Fracturing Fluid
Gas Injection
G&P (Gathering and processing)
Gas Oil Ratio (GOR)
Hitch
Horizontal Drilling
HPU (Hydraulic Power Unit)
Hydrocarbon
Lease
LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas)
LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas)
Midstream
Mud
Natural Gas
Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs)
Offshore/Onshore
Oil Field
Operator
Opex
Permeability
Petroleum
Pig
Play
Porosity
Pressure Containment
Proven Reserves
Recovery Factor
Refinery
Reserves
Reservoir
Royalty
Seismic Data
Site Restoration
Sour Crude
Sour gas
Strings
Sweet Crude
Tight Gas
Ultra-Heavy Oil
Upstream
Water flooding
Well
Well logging
Well Plugging
Wellbore
Wellbore Isolation
Wellhead
Wet Gas
Wireline
ZLD (Zero Liquid Discharge)
API (American Petroleum Institute)
API Gravity
Appraisal well
Asset Development
Asset Operations
Barrel
BBL
BCF
BCM
Bitumen
Block
Blow-out
BOPD (Barrels of Oil Per Day)
CAPEX
Casing
Christmas Tree
Clastic
Condensate
Contingent resources
Conventional Oil
Crude Oil
Derrick
Development Well
Downstream
Drilling
Dry Gas
Dry hole
E&P
Elephant
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
Exploration
Facility Decommissioning
Flaring
Flowlines
Fracking (Hydraulic Fracturing)
Fracturing Fluid
Gas Injection
G&P (Gathering and processing)
Gas Oil Ratio (GOR)
Hitch
Horizontal Drilling
HPU (Hydraulic Power Unit)
Hydrocarbon
Lease
LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas)
LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas)
Midstream
Mud
Natural Gas
Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs)
Offshore/Onshore
Oil Field
Operator
Opex
Permeability
Petroleum
Pig
Play
Porosity
Pressure Containment
Proven Reserves
Recovery Factor
Refinery
Reserves
Reservoir
Royalty
Seismic Data
Site Restoration
Sour Crude
Sour gas
Strings
Sweet Crude
Tight Gas
Ultra-Heavy Oil
Upstream
Water flooding
Well
Well logging
Well Plugging
Wellbore
Wellbore Isolation
Wellhead
Wet Gas
Wireline
ZLD (Zero Liquid Discharge)
Reservoir Engineering
API Gravity
Capillary Pressure
Compressibility
Darcy's Law
Field Development Plan
Formation Pressure
Gas Formation Volume Factor
Gas Solubility
Gas Specific Gravity
Oil Formation Volume Factor
Oil Reservoirs
Permeability
Porosity
Relative Permeability
Reserves
Reserves Estimation
Reservoir Flow Regimes
Resistivity
Saturation
Surface Tension
Viscosity
Oil reserves
Capillary Pressure
Compressibility
Darcy's Law
Field Development Plan
Formation Pressure
Gas Formation Volume Factor
Gas Solubility
Gas Specific Gravity
Oil Formation Volume Factor
Oil Reservoirs
Permeability
Porosity
Relative Permeability
Reserves
Reserves Estimation
Reservoir Flow Regimes
Resistivity
Saturation
Surface Tension
Viscosity
Oil reserves
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