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THE
Petroleum
Dictionary
By
NORMAN
42.7, <?
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Composed and
printed at
Dedicated
to the early-day oilfielder
who
and
to his
many
sons
Preface
MY ATTENTION
in 1925
my desk to
Among the
tion?"
when
first
muster:
was
at a
"My
father
is
delivered with
a roughneck!"
in store for
me.
all
"What
is
was destined
me
among
for life
cupations.
from the
legitimate
oil field.
It
But gradually
vividness fascinate
was not
study of
lips of near-infants
its
the University of
language.
Thomas
or language
language as a
member
of the faculty of
to a graduate class in
modern Eng-
a definite
to record
my
problems in doing
field
sex
and
work,
and
Pyles, then a
Oklahoma, suggested
was
life
to accept the
to this day.
oil-field
me
came
that
my
I felt I
had been
was
interested
in chemistry; furthermore,
De-
(though
had become an
the heart of the old East Texas oil field for sixteen years,
vii
married an
oil-
PREFACE
fielder, I
Vlll
oilfielders,
who
homa, and
knew
already
The
relatives
obstacles
undertook the
unlimited. Therefore
fields of
many
might encounter.
have done
so.
able
I
dialect
and of
had
set
retired oil-
and the
encouragement of students of
sary incentive to keep
and
active
active
began
to realize
how formid-
myself.
had already recorded more than a thousand colorful oil-field expres1 began the serious business of adding
moment
of this writing.
For a year
was forced
my work
to limit
to the
Societies
which enabled
me
go
to
Mid-
Continent and Gulf oil-producing regions. Before the dictionary was completed,
visited the
workers from
major
all levels
of
For purposes of
glossaries,
stories, legends,
works
verification, I
handbooks, catalogues,
examined
histories, technical
are referred to
whenever
term
have included in
this
list is
to
be
my
attention
and
drilling), pro-
duction, pipelining, and refining. But offshore activ ity, an important de-
only incidentally.
The
itself,
PREFACE
minor branches of the industry
fields, wells,
which
which occur
in various senses or
recorded
all
such variations as
have
In view of
collect.
the fact that earlier lexicographers have with few exceptions taken an
centrated
my
attention primarily
though they
have
ings.
The
sential
is
considered
es-
common and
one vocabulary.
have con-
is
If
made;
word
if it is
is
is
initials,
made and
e.g., in
and occasion-
noun usage
the
a bind
is
indicated.
entered under^J
bind.
There
Of
these, 904
and
lists,
By
been arrived
at inde-
sented verbatim as
many
of these definitions as
For those
entries
it
publication date.
Terms which
reference
last definition in
listed in
is
made
to the
have discovered in
is
given
that series.
one or more
have pre-
when one
Many
list
glos-
to or identi-
with the
earliest
are
PREFACE
labeled heard or reported.
However,
if
made
substantiation.
principally
many
laps
is
The
consistently has been the usage of the terms by oil-field workers in activities
essential to the
intelligible to
may
make
occur in
the definitions
make them
intelligible to the
non-oilman, extensive
who
my
wish to acknowledge
work
explained their
to
indebtedness to the
me
in their
many
hospitable oilmen
language.
locatio n,
when
to
it
th ey spudded in,
they acidized,
when
bed and
possible for
stills
me
when
they cooked
lines put to
me and made
when
own
when
industry.
To
the following
their time
many
services
and
Garland White and John Lee, Gulf Pipe Line Company, Worth-
am, Texas; Walter Wilbourn, Gulf State Oil Company, Wortham, Texas;
T. M. Lawson, Lawson Steam Company, Levelland, Texas;
J.
W.
Terry,
Stanolind Oil Company, Levelland, Texas; Charles Bishop and Glen Allen,
retired oil-field workers,
Ardmore, Oklahoma; A.
Phipps and
W.
J.
W. W.
PREFACE
XI
M.
am
their
and
its
Society
who
to
editor; the
Southwest Review
tions of the
editor,
and
gave
wish
its
me
its
G. P. Wilson; and
all
the authors
and publishers
who
all
wish
to
thank F. C. Hayes,
oilfielders,
Finally,
friend
vice
and
to
it is
Thomas
a pleasure to acknowledge
Pyles, student of
and encouragement.
him
He
my
great indebtedness to
American language,
has been
my
oilfielder.
mentor
my
since 1946,
and
have
Contents
PREFACE
Vll
The Language
Origins
part
Development
13
Characteristics
21
two The
:
Petroleum Dictionary
Explanatory Note
41
The Dictionary
45
bibliography
333
Xlll
PART ONE
The Language
The Language
of
all
the oilfielders
who
1859 to those
those
The
u p" wells
is
who
an adventurous,
and
often thought of
as
fearless,
him
orders,
make
his reports,
and recount
which only
his experiences in a
recently has
He
mode
concern
of expression, by
is
He
is
as
much
what
is
his
language ap-
uninhibited by a
and
this
he achieves by
a specialized language.
call the
small
wonder
conservative
and
terms of
many and
this
it
is
paradoxical. Evidences of
by
ing in the preservation of old terms that have outlasted the activities and
is
On
On
the one
which have
THE LANGUAGE
many
evident in
is
many
long,
used for the same purposes. Often the most flippant expressions
the most dangerous activities.
those slowly. Yet
It is
refer to
its
itself.
It
may seem
The
its
originators
and
users.
Petroleum
men
have always been segregative and disposed to discuss their work and
their
problems
among
themselves only.
The
inaccessible, places
scouts, wildcatters,
their hearers
with
vernacular to oilfielders.
thirties
their language.
Although most
oil-field
lingo
may seem
for the
it is
problem
its
to solve, a
new
When
a worker
task to perform, a
new
is
faced with a
tool to master, or a
new
new
from other
tory expression
from
Of
course,
he may, and
result, a sizable
body of old
word
old vocabulary in a
Few words
conform
to
new
is
a definite
need for
it
an
guise.
to
e.g.,
Slumber Jay (see the dictionary). These words, as well as those of English
origin, undergo various linguistic changes: they are compounded with
other words, they acquire prefixes or suffixes or both, they appropriate
The manner
in
which many of
is
is
more hap-
THE LANGUAGE
whim
of the workers
no one
who
an
attached to a
-er suffix is
noun
As
expresses or the
device
it
practical
names
is
no longer
existent or because a
more
it
descriptive or
this
New
language.
York, Penn-
and West Virginia, from Ohio and Indiana, and from California
most of the terminology of one region
indicate that
principle
more
it.
sylvania,
in standard
tjie
lang uage
basically the
is
understood in
is
all
same
United
difficulty to
The
ing,
vocabulary of the
oil field
has
grown by borrowing,
English language.
It is
cupational vernacular.
tivities that
no serious
to another.
figuratively
adapting, coin-
Although
it is
not for a
moment
to
be found in
that matter, in
doubt that
its
influence
upon
extended
The
and
influences at
or for
there can be no
this section
itself
work
in the
growth of
all
in-
lan-
student
principles of
its
was
re-
THE LANGUAGE
Origins
very extensive and constantly increasing body of technical terms
The
oil field is
Some terms
English words.
are
industries; others
are adapted
from unrelated
usage;
isting
still
industries
and
activities
and involve
figurative
from
ex-
Needless to
language of the
say, the
lift
it
When
pump.
If the
it is
well
is
is
terms originated
starts the
when
it
is
pump er,
aft or
with
commanded
If
the well
is
fluid so that
pumping
necessary to start a
In either case he
worker
at the casing
When
bounce
well pro-
huge flywheels
which workers turned by standing on the spokes and kicking down. Thus,
hjc^ing a well off and bouncing off an engine in a specific manner came to
mean
starting
When one is
if
he
is
a pipeliner;
specific order
rago ut,
Danger
life.
not a pipeliner, he
is
effective. She's
West Texas means the weight inmore weight on the drilling line than the derrick
The derrick is in danger of collapsing, and everyone runs for
something
is
start
is
different:
he
off is
will support.
his
there
if
may
Long Beached
dicator
it
is
The
meant
results in the
falling that
same
might
that an explosive
is
quite
one a headache,
to
of a different nature. In
its
easily give
is
danger
had been
set off
ORIGINS
find shelter, but in present-day pipelining
The
it is
implication
is
macaroni
e.g., to
ma\e
is
com-
is
self-evident.
stand pipe in
is
the farm.
To
by rapping on the
and forcing
through the
air
inside.
shocked on
To jungle up
is
to
camp out in the woods (jungle) and rest up (this might well be a phrasal
blend). The expression was common during the early days of pipelining
and
is still
the activity
When
requires
any
its
is
work
of another industry or
try
oil
had seeped
salt
gallery, or drift,
much of the
was common
to all
mining
he was in
to
move
salt
dirt
it
min-
An
industry as
was necessary
given oil-well
titles
When
oil
activities.
oil
as
salt-mining
by shovel, the term used for such action was mucking, a word
the
pro-
first oil
wells of Penn-
The term
mining
salt
ing.
For
into being.
it
mining and
Not much
new
progress
who
first
already bore
industry.
was made
was
is
min-
drillers, possibly
were the
oil in
little
salt
mining was
became
evi-
their
it
way
many
sailors
who
sought employ-
Following
close
behind
THE LANGUAGE
came
which they
easily
oil field.
So
The
tor
and
its
all its
appurtenances, including
on which
lines
its
opera-
reel;
any portion of the derrick or equipment that resembled the nautical mast, a
mast; any narrow walk, a catwalk; and any small opening, particularly one
opening into a boiler or tank, a hatch. Getting the machinery ready
was and
drilling
called rigging
still is
to start
of the machinery
much
now
it
overlapping terminology
to
to
in oil-field activities,
of overlapping terms
is
to be
construction.
The
means
early
fore, the
nicknames
companied them
b<-
driver, a
mule
of transportation
mules and
common
for
peeler or
their drivers
mule migh t be
there-
to teamsters ac-
popular, for the skinner has been retained in cat skinner, truck skinner,
and derrick skinner, as well as in the place name Skinners' Rest, a camping
place for early-day mule skinners. In trucks, the vehicle without a bed is
k nown
as a bob-tail ;
one with
its
tandem.
gear
jammer and
gravel
hog or by the
receives
its
specific title
name from
two
sets of
wheels, a
by the general
junk
hustler.
titles
The guard
a similar guard
on the
is
the
same
as that of utility
is
specific.
ORIGINS
repairmen are whoop and holler men, so called from the signals with which
they establish contact.
The
telephone
all
another says
must
it
stay
derives
communication
tion
He
it is
a combination of
to protect
possum
belly (a
called a
is
who
There
activities.
lines in
is
is,
common
is
to all
gang
in a pipe-line
around insulators
man
and
title
all
pump
to the nearest
station
by para-
chute or by wireless.
rowed terms
and
and digging
synonymous.
so
making
this
the bor-
Push bucket
name: an excavat-
it
Among
to dig pits.
pits
dirt
removed.
By
language of the
compounds
that
oil field is
this process is
conform
derived from
accomplished
to general usage
may
be
conform
to
inflected
nouns are
attic
Nouns
compounded with nouns of agency are collar cor\er, oil puncher, and s\y
hoo\er. Similar compounds with the noun of agency used as the first element are breather roof and -\er\er pump. Compound nouns formed from a
simple adjective and a noun are green hand, high power, hot roc\, old man,
and roughneck- Nouns derived from a verb and its object are cut oil, drill
mit man, pot man, smut hound, stroke department, and swivel nec\.
hole,
dump
gas,
Compounds
dump
oil,
oil,
THE LANGUAGE
10
breakup, come-along,
run-down, by-pass,
Some
fill-up, hide-out,
and
never-slip,
offset.
compound
is
pumper's paradise,
devil's
brew,
driller's seat
and
stool, Devil's
Den,
devil's
Dad
tar,
lantern.
Some
heating
triple
compounds showing
oil, telltale
cumbersome but
open-end
Still
and
other
oil,
compounds
descriptive.
Auger-
company (synonym
his brains
\noc\ed
out,
compound.
In the language of the
some
(usually
much
oil field,
compounds
exist side
difficult to say
and cumber-
and
are
used
still
with humorous intent; the shorter ones originated on the whole in practicality
and
The
most
use of prefixes
and
fixed to a
noun
to
form
and keeping
agency
Again the
re- prefixes
and the
word may be
is
limited
De- may be
much
the
same pattern
The noun
and
al-
pre-
suffix to
and the
-er suffix.
a verb as in de-asphalt
root
form
suffix to
vocabulary
and
records.
retip
reboiler
is
to
and
compounded
recycle,
in the
same
manner.
The
suffix -er
may
But
it is
just as
noun
and sweetener.
as in barreler, holer,
ORIGINS
II
incher,
and stooler.
with another part of speech as in blue whistler, water witcher, dog catcher,
eye rester, pipe stabber, slip puller, and
Among
wax
sweater.
aminifera), reefer (refrigerator car for loading wax), scope pole (telescope
pole), tarp (tarpaulin), Tel.
department), and
X lab
and
Among
(experimental laboratory).
(American Petroleum
Institute),
a sap),
but
and
just
TD
base
mud),
BS&W true
o.d. (outside
much
like
a signal adopted
it is
o.b. (oil
job (plug
(moving
ab-
P&A
many
the
and telephone
oil as
such an abbreviation,
that a tank
which has
in rotary tools),
diameter),
pronounced
euphemisms
for
tools),
slang.
cation of oil-field
either
an indication of standard
do
so,
a fellow worker
The
is
is
Institute.
Thus,
a worker
If
specifi-
is
accustomed to
is
a blend of
petroleum and aristocrat and was applied to members of the Osage Indian
tribe
who were
blend of
oil
receiving an income
from
oil.
Geoilogist appears to be a
a corruption, conscious or
otherwise, of geologist.
takes his girl
and
worker
his liquor
who
him
is
true of Micro-
The names
of
many
equipment
live
on
THE LANGUAGE
in the
12
common names
of the products
exist.
after
crummy
are
wrenches or simply crummies, which originally bore the name of the manufacturer,
Forgy,
who
refer to
oil fields
is
to all similar
hammers, regardless
of manufacturer.
worth
its
(v.t.)
hold
In the
is
cleaned for an
offices
may
load by a
When
Company
in
making
his
is
butterworthed,
a Mr. Butterworth.
a ship
method devised by
early
is
said to be a
this
The
am
sure that
all
manner.
it is
widely
connection with
lost.
obvious, doubtless
George
DEVELOPMENT
13
Development
large
number
usage.
Many
"Origins." Others will appear in subsequent sections. Like slang, they are
largely the result of
tions, to find a
to amuse by calling up incongruous associamanner of expression, and to attract attenthese expressions could not have come into
an attempt
new and
fresh
new term
is
cal terminology,
while others
make
has been pointed out that the basic words themselves are old, but
It
their
worker
sees
some
may
is
on the spur
son
of this
oil field.
trait
may
of the
moment when
task, device, or
problem
This resemblance
at
hand
may
lie
be descriptive.
On
who
hear
it,
and
it
of the language.
from shape
are derived
are
many.
wooden
block through which a rod line passes becomes a doll head, because at a
looks like one. After the rod line has been activated back
short distance
it
and
forth, the
doll face,
doll
head
it
that of a "Buster
Brown"
haircut.
Sometimes the
re-
semblance.
tattletale (a
The
passes.
to protect
bristle-like structures
pigtail
is
is
on
a hole in
pigpen, though, has nothing to do with the pigtail, or the pig (a pipe-
is
THE LANGUAGE
14
An
crow's nest.
attic or
umbrella
is
When
umbrella.
it is
it
it
when it is put into operation, it opens slightly to form a cone which points
downward with its edges firm against the sides of the well. It protects the
lower portion of the well by catching whatever may fall into the hole in
on the outer
surface.
and wagon
The term
tions.
is
the
stem)
come
to
rat hole is a
hole,
is
is
The
mouse
It is also
drill
top.
which the
their origi-
hold the
drill
it is
an aid
to
making connections
quickly.
employed
huge
pump and
spectacles
is
to
lift
two purposes:
for at least
The term
The wagon
is
socket.
top
is
round
immense
insect sting. It
is
lifting device.
the extension
on a
gin pole.
shape
connect
The
to
The resemblance
is
much
wagon
stills
men working
to protect
fall
and
to
top. It
is
and
its
a huge,
at a great
at
number
on an exhaust
the exhaust,
for each
pipe.
to tell at
barker, or squealer,
may
is
an
motor
it
is
is
A crybaby, jackbird, or
piercing noise that becomes increasingly shrill until they are oiled.
The
sound
and
is
it
is
as penetrating
DEVELOPMENT
15
certainly as disturbing as the crying of a baby. It
gets
demands and
a cry that
immediate attention.
When a pumper
is
is
is
means
flowing, possibly caused by the check valve. This noise resembles the soft,
A hammer in a line is a knocking sound in a steam line caused by mixA pig like the farm animal in two
and
it
it
makes
lines to
is
line as a pig
is
paraffin)
By following
ing noise until the pig stops, a pig chaser (the pipeliner
pig)
of
is
able to locate
who
an obstruction.
on every
Still
ties.
let
The term
same manner
synonyms
borer, weevil,
from which
and ultimately
ground
The term
we have
much
in
yo-yos.
out screw,
line.
the
on each
bottom
very early to be calle d peg leggi ng. In this case the tools begin to hit
that
grunt-
its
follows the
drill
men and
set
the
The
similarity
between the
timber
is
known
man
it
the
nickname
dentist.
and in a bore
expended.
is
just the
on
it.
THE LANGUAGE
when
Similarly,
l6
a worker
mean
is
that he
miserable or unhappy; he
is
very likely
is
comfortably and idly sitting in his favorite "hangout" spinning yarns with
his fellow workers.
shelter
change
The doghouse
is
as a place
lease
used as a
their coats,
the doghouse.
A good worker
down and
an easy job)
for
loafs
and wastes
topping the tan\s out the easy way (running them over).
and
likely to
A
drills.
dishonest driller
steal hole
crewman
When
he says he
When
is
pull
sand (quit) he
green
it
any rotary
a well
to be
is
is
To
makes
it
it is
if
may hang
the well
is
same engine)
tie
order
off the
it
pumping
says
let
her rip or
a can on her
knows
is
hang
bump-off post (a
and
Sand
which case
also
at capacity, the
to be put
task he
in
in derision
it
may
driller is
allowed to flow
given. If
for stopping
by
device that
To
green.
it
oil
he doesn't get
(be fired)
if
If
a rival
let
may
oil
a jack well,
hang
from
tail
If
and
a worker
that he
is
is
one
told to seal
to finish
whatever
may
on one
side only
is
called h illside
it is
it
be miles from a
hill;
and a
bit so
very difficult to drill in and, consequently, wears out bits so fast that in
is
DEVELOPMENT
17
fever are
oil
names
bronchitis,
he does not need the assistance of a physician; he needs experienced workers to help
him
His bronchitis
is
experience to
is
term applied
management
or worry bo x, depending
upon who
is
having
last
them.
to use
time
saw
it,
of one
one landowner)
such a
The
tool, th ey
tool
keep fro
pit to
"T he
answer,
over the rig builders and the drilling cfewj~thinks of the pit as the worry
box, because his duty
is
to
Hyperbole
anecdotes.
is
the source of
tools,
much worry.
humor derived from
the
the source of
is
much
of the
it is
oil-field
is
drilling;
however,
oil scouts,
innocent bystanders, and well-wishers cannot refrain from asking questions, particularly
who
His answer
is
who
is
The first
inquiry
field I
The second
is
usually
have visited)
inquiry
is
ad-
no more
satisfactory:
"Deep
as hell!
We
passed hell
all
this occupational
language. But
it
seems per-
terminology.
field
domesti-
THE LANGUAGE
have found their place in the vernacular. As in the metaphorical
cated,
usage discussed above, the similarity between the actual animal and
its
thing that merely pertains to or suggests the animal. There are the grass-
hopper pumping
City.
and Grasshopper
named
wells. Strangely
to
my
horse head
if
first
if
is
is
so
many
the structure
to
was
its
it
is
curved.
The derrickma n
is
more often
called a
mon\ey
or a derrick
mon\ey,
and the platform on which he works, a monkey board; but the protective
belt which he wears is an insurance cheater. It is difficult to understand
<h
ly
and
the derrick,
and
is
Actual-
climb sure-
Spider
ability to
and
applied to
leash
on which uncaged
numerous
circus
drill pipe;
a type of funnel with five outlets resembling legs, used for changing the
filters;
Some
are goosenec\,
dog
and
pigtail.
tests), turtlebac\ (a
oxygen
worn by
oil-field
name
of a
to the swivel) ,
and
fish
scales),
mule foot
re-
to the spider
legs, cathead,
used in titration
names
lies
is
it
to a rope socket)
The term
DEVELOPMENT
10.
mouse
is
boar's
The
nest,
names for lead tongs used on the derrick floor are derived from
favorite farm names for mules, Pete and Maud. The source of these
favorite
the
terms
is
probably
unknown
to the
younger generation of
oil-field
one single
trait
or characteristic.
field
workers.
term
lies
is
labeled
worker in a carbon-black
new
fueling light
it
works
pany
is
and medium
"like a beaver."
Similarly,
plant.
an
aircraft is appropriately
in oil-field
its
namesake can
manner of
terminology. However, the
digs in the
compounded
Consequently,
terrapin.
we
titles to
tell
2
lie.
Com-
Sailor;
Any machine
their
who
named
in re-
electric
called a jeep, a
or worker
Company
it
others
may have
the
word stud
common
in
"herd."
and stud
unit, a goat.
terms as bear
^
with
strength
ers)
hrgejlow. Bull
and
is
and endurance;
The derivation of
when the term
oil field
it is
jeep
is
name
prefixed to the
where
g.p. ("general
bear ca t
is
equipment noted
names
from
purpose")
a well
for
its
refinery bullies
from
of
it
is
de-
THE LANGUAGE
20
pumping
which
is
somewhat
Duc\, and
The term
is
sizes of three
titles:
The comparative
smaller.
indicated by their
unit, the
is
on the rock
bit
and
oil-field
days
word may be
it
new
exto
driller.
in the lubricator)
nineteen hundreds the term weevil was almost entirely supplanted by the
term
boll weevil?
which today
Any
may
meaning
grease cup or
oil
of weevil but
pipe on a steam
driller
mistakes
is
and from
it
are
by a drilling
derrick floor
Any
crew
is
is
been avoided
is
and could
no matter who
is
easily
have
at fault. Further-
more, the names for equipment said to be foolproof have come to be com-
In early
work
boom towns
to secure
enough
ment
so
we
was most
to eat.
difficult for a
Inasmuch
as there
of oil-field workers.
it
and
at the
man
doing strenuous
Many names
recrea-
tastes
so represented in
oil-field
terminology are "heavy." There are few words for green vegetables
among
is
Mody
inexperienced roughneck
CHARACTERISTICS
21
include bull,
meat
calf,
substitute,
cow,
and
he can find
egg (a
in cheese (paraffin),
it
cast-iron tank in
terminology),
drilling
in
fall to
apple butter (belt dressing), pineapples (cones on rotary bit), and water-
may
to control the
be of any shape).
tastes,
originally they
terminology
If field
lines;
among
late
nineteen twenties
oil-field
equipment, but
found in certain
is still
soil
an
essential.
is
The
wheat batter and corn-meal pebbles, both derived from the remarkable
similarity
And coffee
cant for pipe fittings) and tabasco sauce (acid) serve as relishes.
(a mistake that
lubri-
and spring
to coffee)
Characteristics
oil field
growth, and
its
use has
marked
language
As
also,
and
it
in
its
origin,
its
this specialized
meaning
of
some verbs
is
not clear at
are considered.
To
get
all
and
to ma\e are such verbs. The expressions to get granite and to get a bone
mean to encounter hard rock. To get the fob done, to get it canned, and to
get it \ellied retain the casual significance of get and mean to complete a
a task of any sort. The casual significance is present but not so easily seen in
get after her wild ass, get off center, get on the line,
out,
,-L
THE LANGUAGE
all
meaning
22
work
to start
any task or
to
meaning
whether
be in or out of the
it
oil
mud on the drill, to quit one's job, and to find a leak in a pipe-
are to collect
line. Still
another meaning
is
bad weather).
con-
first
If
taken
literally, to
of forming
is
mean
phrases
depth of a
ma^
up
up and break
and
into pieces,
To
specifically
meaning
successful,
to
oilmen say
it
makes a
well,
down
the kelly
is
to drill to the
is
If a drilling
in turn
and dependable, he
make
other
string of tools
wrinkle,
The
idea
to gain
drill hole, to
up
to roll
fit
hole
is
venture
said to
is
When
makes oil.
make a hand.
end of
a joint; to
make
location
is
to
pipe out
of,
and run
To spud
one
is
back
originally
and
it
which
meant
tions,
If
in,
is
used in
many
game, or a drink, he
situations, its
is
spudding
meaning remains
in.
fixed.
more
drastic
words.
To
so drastic, in
flange
specific idea
to
Al-
definite
screw the
is
fact, that
up always
both terms
may
final
much
it
meant
Now,
CHARACTERISTICS
23
up
games, and
his drinks.
tell
may
meeting
to conclude
him
When
one says he
may need
contractor
is
may have
a toothache.
in a bind,
may mean
is
a roustabout
is
is
the boiler, or
is
the well, or he
United
is
at
odd
compounded with
The
he
may do
activity of
is
in
who
assisted in
may
is
o il
States. In the
refi nery
may work on
a unit
work around
company as a semi-
general
oil
is
works
may
undergone generalization.
also
their activities.
when an oilman
occasion,
common
labor of the
may
dog have
however, he
title
derrickman
lose a bit, a
laborer. In production,
from
it
in
any
in
fields, fires
to
an unskilled
him
him
in a bind.
name
and unloading of
term
may
may
what the
bird
field the
he
fast as it is
No matter
the loadin g
to put
to "finish."
workers, a driller
may mean
person
a.
mean simply
successfully or unsuccessfully
it
just as logically
may mean
a business deal
one can
is
the
On
the
if
any roustabout
is
crews and
called roustabouting.
it
ing in bird dog originates in the inherent ability of dogs of this particular
breed to "smell out" game. Early in the history of the industry, geologists
mud
from
drill holes
made
Their
the term
residents
THE LANGUAGE
24
other companies, he
may
pening, or he
may
still
To
dogging.
what he
is
doing
When
dog
anyone
known
as bird dogging.
solicits business,
to
hap-
he
The
verbal
said to be bird
is
him when
it is
is
also
(this
work
what
further.
bird
dog information
bird
may
ferrets out
trait
When
necessary.
is
completed
he exhibits in
one works
satisfactorily,
more
this case is
he
like that
of the bulldog.
The noun job, another counter word, seldom occurs alone. It is usually
compounded with another word from which it takes its specific meaning.
In hot job, poor -boy job, and rabbit job the general meaning of job as a
piece of work is retained, but the respective compounding elements describe that piece of work as one for which the worker is not sure of receiving pay, one for which stock,
might
refer to
interest, or
is
compounding element
all
work
identifies the
to be done.
and cup
job, the
blow job
entails
cleaning with steam; a collapse job, removing collapsed pipe from the drill
hole;
and a cup
polish job
is
job, replacing
worn cups on
The term
may
carry
on
may
its
pur-
this activity.
Again, the word job serves as a counter term for any piece of machinery
or equipment.
A highly
satisfactory piece
to a rig. In these
compounds, job
is
is
and sparkplug
qualified to
mean
a rig
mounted on a
it
electricity.
In float
is
to aid in loading
may
and unloading.
A lay-down
or
may
be seen in
CHARACTERISTICS
25
the preservation of such
words
noun tour. In standard usage proven tends to give way to proved, but it is
commonly used by oilmen to mean "known to be capable of producing oil."
Both the meaning and the pronunciation of tour are archaic. In standard
usage it has been almost entirely replaced by the word shift. When it has
been preserved,
it is
oil field it
Paradoxical as
may
it
is
exist side
The oilman
pronounced.
just as
is
to
number
synonyms
Petroleum
who
used
it
American
itself
settlers
noun and
in their rites,
who
it
used
its
sell
tucky in
miners named
it
When
it
it
it
fires.
To
early
ruined the
devil's tar.
eternal
of
verb.
many names. To
it
words
salt
But when
it
wells of
made
Ken-
scores of
ing gold, and liquid gold. In every case the epithet reflected the special
significance of the mineral to the
may
driller
how
There
is
one
who named
more
it.
depending upon
how much
how he
him. 4
well.
produces,
ner
it
how much
it
and the
size,
it is
is
By
what
known
possible to indicate
oil
pools in the
setting.
4
gencer, Vol.
VI
(1949),
1.
driller in
The
Intelli-
THE LANGUAGE
Well
or gas.
the general term for any hole drilled for the production of oil
is
may
It
26
by any method, or
may
it
it
may
it
may
be
more often
is
reserved for a venture, that has been completed and has proved productive.
well that
is
*~
is
or drilling device
farmer well
also applies to
tools or not.
oil pits;
self-drilling well is
it is
motivates the drilling tools and increases the depth of the hole.
In early days a well was labeled a mystery
little
is
released,
it
is
information about
it
becomes a semitight
well.
well in the
is
with a slim-hole
when
The
it is
it is
and
is
if it re-
often drilled
is
the small
hole.
Surface wells are sunk through the clay to the rock and go only to the
Roc\
gravel.
Post hole wells are shallow wells, without any indication whether they are
more
is
in "unproven" ter-
But
tory well.
pool,
is
If the
is
at the limits of
called a semiwildcat.
it is
wildcat
the well
if
One
an
that
is
oil
s\y explora-
known
a development well.
boring
an Oil Cree\
is
Humbug,
a water hole, a
is
powder
hole, or a dud.
These may
may even
Dry holes made to
actually be dry, but they are just as likely to flow water or gas, or
yield
some
oil,
quantities.
salt
itself
salt
is
is
a producer or payoff.
CHARACTERISTICS
T]
gas
sure
is
a gasser.
is
is
"blowing in"
much
pressure, the
there
if
is
The
first
may
well in an area
more
offset;
drilled far
enough down
it is
be drilled beside
said to
gas or air
When
natural,
is
is
and
oil
an outpost;
it
oil that it
is
it
well
where
pool, a pinch-out.
may
an
If a
If,
field,
is
line,
well
still
can-
called a wild
a well, a relief
is
may
and the
pumped,
oil
may
it is
flow or
may
be
lifted
pumper; otherwise
it is
said to be a
by means of a pump.
If
the
it is
well.
The
it
is
600 barrels,
it is
if
the flow
of commercial value, in
One
at the
which
case
it is
drill hole. If it
is
is
is
small,
too
it is
little
called a teaser.
more than
its official
quota
is
may
be
called a light
production to be
well producing
that produces
produces
oil, is
a twin
an over-produced
well.
The manner
If
in
a gusher or a whale.
If
is
it
is
more
THE LANGUAGE
28
is
and gurgling
Many
to
an uncon-
wells.
field usage.
Thus
out landing
means
dope, to
it;
sharpen a drilling
intransitively
means
One
to
oil
and shape
bit
(which
to
it
drilling, with-
and
oil;
Head
is
oil-
is
is
dress, to
used both
not standard)
says,
transitive
and
at the
may run
casing,
although the
last
specifically to
show
and
oil
oil.
oil.
To
it
When
tester,
or even run a
to force a
weight
remove an obstruction.
to
showin g,
is
a spe-
mean
used primarily to
is
To show means
is
term
abandon-
to
the crew
rabbit,
Run becomes
let
down
oil.
In addition to the foregoing type of figurative verb which shows specialization, there are purely metaphorical verbs.
and wasteful
The
to oil-field terminology.
fields are
poor boy, roughnec\, and roustabout. Verbs derived from the names of
Thus
to
by
to,
means of
in field vernacular
a choke,
which
or
up means
is
a bean.
To
thief.
bean a well
down
CHARACTERISTICS
20,
mean
to
enough money
to
may
also
well.
To
tank
thief a
to take a
is
sample of
oil
from
interest in the
a tank by
means
of a
Some
with a small
bit
and
other),
to
derived.
Examples
are:
moving
it
from one
location to an-
left
basis a
itself is
diamond core
as their
formation in a
diamond
bit),
drill
what degree
of heat a petroleum
test it for
straightness or length).
The
sense-relationship
means
usage
is
more
when
this
seem insurmountable;
line
To
is
to
oil
mountains.
batch
same pipe
line in suc-
cession.
As
disappeared from
compound has
an adjectival
much
Mud
off
and
mud up
are
synonymous and
to be seen in
it
drill
may
is,
collect
bridge up
is
or bridge over.
used only
is
participle.
enough
nearly
over-produce, under-
To
by and to
drill
drill
ahead
around
The
THE LANGUAGE
as
swab
first
in,
wash
30
and come
in.
Spud
in,
any other
process in the
compounds
Up
flange up,
mud
and
rig up.
The verb is the heart of the many useful phrases which have found their
way into the language. Without some of them it would be difficult for the
oil-field worker to make himself understood. These phrases form regular
patterns for the most part.
are collar-pecker ring
off,
Those composed of
verb, object,
pipe up, top a tank out, get the rag out, and get a ball on.
bounce
and adverb
off
an engine,
The
bump
verb-adverb-
off well,
The
put in
verb plus
object results in clear a well, knife a well, set casing, lose bottom, lose
ma\e
oil,
make
a pull,
ma\e a
well,
tail rods,
hole,
tail,
and
settle to boil.
go
full
As
in standard English,
preterit
verb form. In the spoken language and in field reports, activities are re-
spudding
in,
moving
tearing
may
be
down, squeezing,
off,
One
hears
we flanged
hears
we
off,
or
The
particular.
new
Such terms
growth
in general,
as stool pigeon
named
in
are entirely
of the century, rotary drilling has almost entirely replaced cable-tool drilling,
for
new
oil
ocean and the reopening of old pools. Every development has been ac-
CHARACTERISTICS
31
With the development of the petroleum industry, specialization has become a necessity. It is no longer possible for one man to direct exploration,
drilling, production, repair, and marketing. Each worker is responsible
for
one particular part of the whole process of getting petroleum into mar-
ketable condition.
industry
The
clear-cut.
is
line of
A swamper,
common
to
more than
likely to
it is
for example,
term may be
is
load and unload the truck, opens gates, and sees that the load
is
as
He
helps
But
secure.
an
and
office
much
Gas
is
a popular
a non-liquefying vapor
The change
is
in the social
to a refinery
man
status of the
men were
for the
most part
transients.
They
oil-
and con-
ducted themselves on their rare trips to town in such a way that they gave
all oil
and
all
had
to
social stratum,
depend
and a
largely
upon
slang.
Few
much
who
have
technical terminology.
is
to be
tory
names
way
which
called
them
and
tools.
lost.
In the
oil-field
mark
of derision or
THE LANGUAGE
32
Workers who
much
are held in
less
trained
and the
stress
and
gassers, the
strain department.
Geologists are pebble pups, roc\ hounds, roxies, wrinkle chasers, smellers,
or witchers, depending
on
their experience
are generally called doodlebuggers. Drillers are brake riders, brake weights,
The contempt
which the
in
and Roebuck^
rotary driller
and the
drillers,
or syn-
cable-tool driller
held one another until the late nineteen twenties resulted in such pungent
epithets as jarhead, rope choker,
and yo-yo
and
auger man, chain breaker, clutcher, clutch stomper, swivel nec\, and twister for the rotary driller.
Executives and "bosses" in general also receive their share of the nick-
may
Man
offices are
or
Kingfish;
who
known
as connections or
Those who maintain very friendly relaknown as meat augers, drapers, or grapers.
A refinery employee who in his own estimation knows everything is called
a fire-wall lawyer. Any clumsy worker who has no aptitude for oil-field
work is called a farmer, cotton picker, or a pea picker. One who always
looks for a "snap" job is a snapper; one who is caught sleeping on the job,
an eye rester; one who works only long enough to draw one pay check, a
payday boy; one who is always wanting to work overtime, an overtime hog;
parasites regardless of their skill.
a.
a machinist, a nutbuster;
Some
they seem.
is
and
a carbon-black employee, a
Outfit, a field
name
for the
Western Company,
derived from a part of the trade-mark which can be seen at a great dis-
W. Trucking Train
M. English Trucking Company taken directly
is
smuthound.
nickname
from
for the
a jingle used
J.
by employees
to describe the
company:
J.
chain.
CHARACTERISTICS
33
Can't Ta\e
You
The
expression originated
was
so difficult to
It is
work
among
or pays
company).
(or porboy
is
variant
Then
hausted.
is
Any company
said to be a poor-boy
humorous corruption
of Chemical Process
in anecdote,
and perhaps
of a certain poor-boy
they
company
said the
is
Transfer.
its
who
company
Union City
the
initials of
com-
were ex-
night shooting craps, and with their winnings continue drilling. Finally
they struck
oil,
and
named
The
field
names
and
Company.
is
One
spoon (or ignorant stic\ and ignorant spoon) for shovels or spades used on
a pipe line.
There
the ignorant
is
end
There
is
is
this
organization
do
he must sign an
so,
affidavit
If
he forgets
The
slide rules
work on
used by en-
gineers are referred to as guessing sticks, slip stic\s, physics sticks, tent
rules,
and
The
circus rules.
of the circus.
town
Hence
it is
not
is
tents.
coming on the
job.
most
cases;
nym poor-boy
the
end of
however,
packer.
a pipe
packer
is
lowered
force to
make
Many
descriptive than
its
syno-
to the
is
bottom of the
drill
hole and
set
more
is
which
shirt-tail
a dud.
of the four-letter
in polite conversation
THE LANGUAGE
are
found
34
compounds
in various
euphemisms
which
are in turn
and appears in
senses,
its
euphemized
to
ass
ass
wor\,
The initials
who thought
officials
on
From
generally
is
wagon and
euphemisms: bottom
their books.
settlings, basic
Whether
the
euphemism
who have
dog
catcher,
expects of
When
it,
and
who
is
may
is
fails to
said to
Euphemisms
oil
is
called a
accomplish what
dog chaser
foreman
its
is
with his
employer, or
and
dog and
dissatisfied
everything in general, he
fever, bronchitis,
loafs continuously
an entire crew
if
the group
a worker
been subjected
of a college education.
or
heard out-
is
is
worker wants
this category:
to red)
on the brain.
are often
more
liquid
known
as,
as the
doctor solution was used in the process of removing the sulphurous odor
Company
Sinclair Refining
in
Houston,
Texas, found that by heating the solution the process could be speeded up
so the liquid
for
an imaginative worker
and
this
of
as
Blue S\y Peddlers for swindlers, smokehouse smut for obscene jokes,
soiled doves for prostitutes,
was
tion
no longer
It is
for snuff.
Copenhagen
The
term
exists.
last
common
that
we may
regard
it
is,
in fact,
CHARACTERISTICS
35
lars in general.
The language
of the oilfielder
certainly
is
no exception, and
a part of standard
colloquial English.
Some
listed
in
oil-field
gauge,
oil
oil
sand,
tum
coal
oil, filling
more
pipe
Gas and
ethyl, gasoline,
gas
petrola-
fitter,
line, wildcatter,
oiler,
and
still
are
Cymogene,
and wildcatting
and
oiler,
an
new meanings
came
oil well.
many
and
oil
company,
oil
oil
Common
exchange, oilman,
oil operator,
and
known names
for workers.
oil
oil
boom,
oilstove,
and
oiltan\, terms not directly related to the industry but nonetheless dependent
upon it for their origin, are commonly used. And although its exact origin
is unknown, the term courtesy card seems first to have designated the consumer's thirty-day credit permit issued by
oil
Communities
soon forget
it
when
is
areas,
more
susceptible
for years
They,
many
circumstances.
common
most
The
expressions of this kind (get the rag out, spud in, flange up,
XXIV
(1949), 36.
Language
THE LANGUAGE
To
36
use of the
oil-field
To
which
gas,
in
its first
is
is
about anything,
more
is
petroleum industry,
"to
who
an application of the
likely
meant
transfer of usage
inflate a balloon;
lessly
pumping
when
to
talks end-
term
oil-field
was
it
said to be
loquacious person
In the
oil field
obvious.
is
the term
is
"smart aleck"
who
This expression
is
W.
slang in James
oil-field
designates a
it
talk, or
popping
off.
Winfrey's "Oil
Patch Talk." 6
I
it
is
Charles
the oil
used generally
Morrow Wilson
field.
is
to describe
listed there as a
term of commerce,
sixties,
of
first
thousand barrels
on the barrel-head.
vocabulary as well.
equipment used
The
ners of Texas
edge, a
is
up waste
to pick
also called a
the engine
the term
my
which
is still
informant,
it
had
oil,
was used
to be
moved
before
it
would
used to
who
the general
to
my
stopped on center,
is
latter, to
portable
pump. To get
and the
is
mean
to get started in
any
is
When
days
when
the engine
start again.
Now
activity.
According to
transferred to ranching.
6 In Publication
of
gin-
knowl-
XIX
(1944), 138.
CHARACTERISTICS
37
When
I stride
oil,
possibly analogous to
"when
oil at all; it is
an expression of wishful
thinking and pertains to the desire for sudden unearned wealth from an
unexpected source.
mand)
is
To ream
is its
synonym
to eat out.
little
financial backing,
its
is
now
used
Although
is
soliciting business
call
the chief stock in trade of poor boys, the use of the term, as well as the
activity
it
names,
is
general.
In the dictionary which follows, the reader will see further examples
of the forces
and
language of the
developed
and
life
it.
Its
oil field is
eminently usable,
made
so by the
part, the
men who
It is
tinctively
American
a con-
himself
and
in development.
humorous one,
offering to
its
its
is
a dis-
And
it is
hearers a
workers.
PART TWO
The Petroleum
Dictionary
Explanatory Note
MATERIAL in
list.
this dictionary
sentences,
is
order
i.
made
for
is
made
for a
word used
as
part
of speech.
3.
4.
as well, tan\,
Pronunciation
1.
Pronunciation
is
given only
when
it
varies
from
that of standard
English.
2.
The
and
in.
word
indicated by respelling.
Part of speech
1.
The
pronunciation
is
part of speech.
2. If
the entry
is
word used
as
part of speech, an
the entry
is
which
a phrase,
it
refers.
no part of speech
41
is
given.
THE DICTIONARY
iv.
4.2
Restrictive labels
1.
the restrictive label applies to the entire entry, the label precedes
the definition.
C
3. If
after the
number
of that definition
appears
it
itself.
v.
Definitions
1.
Definitions are
numbered
speech.
2.
vi.
Synonyms
The most common synonyms
1.
2.
vii.
common synonyms
Less
References
1.
Most
If
one reference
is
used for a
series of
The
reference
is
left
which immediately
listed in
with the
4.
is
made
to the glossary
discovered in
page reference
is
given for
my own
field
work
is
labeled
if
is
made
to that publication.
fiction, nonfiction,
The
and newspapers.
NOTE
43
is
not followed by
and
have
have therefore
A
ABANDON BOREHOLE
absorption plant
The
line
abandoned beach
The
an
oil
tion of
[BA,
n.
damage
[LDO]
[LDO,
drilling reports.
tester
oils.
in
absorption system
The system of manufacturing natural
(casing-head) gasoline by the absorp-
p. 428]
(Pensky-Martens)
The Abel
used by
the Pensky-
tester
is
The
n. pi.
accident,
heavy absorbing
fluid
which
nat-
and subsequently
absorption,
[WIL,
n.
such
which
as
it
The
and
collect in quantity.
accumulator,
1.
[A]
n.
vessel in
which
fluids
under high
oil
oil
n.
process by
absorption
A heavy
p. 161]
accumulation,
stance in
v.t.
To
tity,
which
[D]
absorbers,
The
part of a refinery in
ural gasoline
[POR]
line.
[POR]
absorption tower
The
from
point of
abd.
p. 155]
The
Abel closed
oil.
absorption process
is
pumps
acetone
46
[POR]
p. 32]
line
tons of the
acetone, n.
An inflammable liquid product
H 6 0)
[LDO]
used
for
(C 2 H 2 );
underground
lighting and,
oxygen, for weld-
oil,
neutralize each
gram
of
oil.
[D]
The
part of a refinery
where weak
sul-
the specific
acid sludge
acid, free
modern methods
of potassium hydroxide
acid-restoring plant
acetylene, n.
number
The amount
acid
(C 3
pounds.
chloric acid into the formation, thus dissolving the lime out of the sand. [BA,
of refining.
acid tar
treatment by which asphalt is rein order to improve its end products. [D]
[POR]
aclinic, adj.
blow case
Without
sloping.
[LDO]
acre-foot
acid egg
See egg. [PE]
An
wide and
activation, n.
acidity, n.
adamantine
The
an
oil.
v.)
in
[POR]
refining.
catalyst
who
fields
or
power of a
upon the prod-
drill
[NO]
force
acidizer, n.
oil
drill.
reactive
acidize, v.t.
To
The
upon crude
agitator, n.
1. refining. A vertical cylindrical tank
used in refining petroleum. [NO] 2.
production. A well that flows after production has been started by means of a
pump. [LDO,
airplane
An
p. 449]
oil
early
name
oil.
[A]
alternating flux
47
blowing machine
machine used to force fresh air to
the bottom of a hand-dug oil well so that
workers will not be overcome by gas.
air propeller or
[POR]
pumping
Pumping oil
air
lift
principle.
air
scrubber
wells by
means
of the air-
[D]
browned up
[Heard]
Allegheny formation
is
purified.
[PE]
A lab
A clipped form of analytical laboratory.
Northern Appalachian
[POR]
field.
[Reported]
alligator lace
albertite, n.
A
A very heavy hydrocarbon similar to
ordinary asphalt but only partly soluble
in turpentine and imperfectly fusible
when heated; named for the locale in
which it is produced: Albert County,
New Brunswick. [A]
hydrocarbons
Hydrocarbons found in petroleum
whose carbon and hydrogen atoms are
aliphatic
The
paraffin (meth-
and
olefine
are
the
hydrocarbons.
se-
[POR]
are
alkali-sulphur
when
washed with
petrole-
alkali.
[D]
compounds
wash
paraffin
which
modern
similar to a
is
wrench
that re-
The amount
a field
[DO, Oct.
duce.
is
allowed to pro-
29, 1947]
allowable, n.
The
percentage a well
produce of
its
maximum
is
allowed to
potential pro-
duction. [FO]
all
rubbered up
expression
descriptive
of
electric
lines
um products
alkali
alligator
An
alkali liquor
The
lace
zipper
to in-
aloes rope
special
drilling;
oil-well
aloe.
[POR]
along the bedding
The
alternating flux
from the
petroleum in alternating
The change is alternated from low-
distillation of
stills.
alternating
alternating
48
stills
anchor,
stills
run when
refining.
petroleum
oil
thickened
[KOT]
aluminum chloride
in
gasoline.
A length of tubing extending below the working barrel of a pumping well. 4. In shooting a well, the small
tin tube that supports the lowest shell to
proper height in the sand. [NO]
nections. 3.
n.
[POR]
always-ready wrench
A wrench with both ends shaped somewhat like the grip end of an alligator
wrench. [NO]
anchor bolt V*
refining.
amalie, n.
A
a
trade
motor
liquid petrolatum;
oil.
American
j
name for
[POR]
which shows
oil
[NO]
American
American system
when
slip
a task of
any kind
farm
amortize, v.t.
To repay a debt in any way; to clear
off a debt by repayment in regular in-
[LDO]
line
on
a geological
[Re-
split
crest
[D]
anticlinal theory of oil
theory evolved by
I.
C. White in
[LDO,
p. 321]
anticline, n.
in opposite directions
analyzer, n.
An
anticlinal bulge
radio
ported]
[PE]
map which
[LDO]
Texas; so
2.
com-
termi-
nology. [Heard]
The
amortization, n.
The refunding of a loan and interest,
customarily in equal annual installments.
Often in mining finance the discharging
of a debt by any means. [LDO]
1.
is
from
transferred
and injure
of drilling
stallments.
The
ankle buster
A rig with peddle clutches; so called
because when the jaws of the clutches be-
Said
American pump
products
paraffin-oil
made on
test
analysis.
sound waves.
from an
axis.
[D]
antifriction bearing
refining.
duce
friction.
ball
[KOT]
aromatic base
49
antiknock,
n.
in
[KI]
antiknock additive
See gasoline additive. [KI]
trade
name
apex,
[POR]
is
mean
a blowout. [D]
A.P.I.
1.
An
Petroleum
A.P.I, chain
A chain made according to the standard set by the American Petroleum Institute. [KI]
gravity specified by the
Petroleum
Institute.
Appalachian
The
American
Ap-
it
re-
apple knocker
Jones
reamer.
2.
An
inexperi-
pi.
apron dressing
An
oil
[POR]
trade
name
for a
[PE]
ceases.
araeo-pignometer, n.
A weighing device for determining
the specific gravity of oil when a very
small quantity is to be tested. [POR]
aragotite, n.
arch,
smoke
boiler
apple butter
silica
field
oil fields
lubricant consisting of
quicksilver
[KI]
1.
drill-bit
An
A.P.I, gravity
The
1.
mixture of
n.
[POR]
n.
gelatin-like clay. 2.
The
rock
aquadag, n.
Very finely divided Acheson graphite
containing tannin and ammonia which
when mixed with water produces a fluid
aquagel,
v.).
lubricant.
antiknock gasoline
anti\noc\ (q.
apron ring
The bottom ring
Arkansas gravel
The rails from which roads were
built
The
trees
arms,
[HOO,
Parts
etc.
p. 154]
n. pi.
of the
bull-wheel,
band-wheel,
[NO]
aromatic base
A crude petroleum having a strong
odor (sulphur) and testing high in the
artificial vaseline
50
variant of
German
[POR]
asap [a sap]
on work
and requisition orders of the Sinclair
Refining Company, Houston, Texas. A
of as soon as possible. Appears
^S
asphalt cutback
refining. Asphalt cement liquidized
by the addition of gasoline, kerosene, or
some other volatile petroleum distillate.
[KOT]
asphalt emulsion
refining. An emulsion of asphalt and
[KOT]
water.
asphaltenes,
refining.
n. pi.
in
ashpit, n.
The compartment
a boiler
of
or
chamber. [POR]
made by
the
American
asphalt, n.
brown
or black
bitumen obtained
p.
and
mem-
related se-
200]
bound together
[KOT]
[KOT]
asphalt cement
refining. An asphaltic fraction of disused to bind gravel, sand, and
other materials in making asphaltic pavement, or to fill paving joints in concrete
tillation
highways.
[KOT]
asphalt content
The percentage of asphalt in the substance tested.
[POR]
oil
oil.
obtained
Used when
a heavy oil
boilers,
asphaltic
or
[BA,
steam-refined fuel
to,
or essentially
composed
of,
asphalt. [D]
Similar
blown
[KOT]
asphalt flux
asphaltic, adj.
1.
as-
as a residue
asphalt base
little
(especially
1.
products
A.S.M.E. specifications
Specifications
petroleum
armor coat
refining. A thin protective coat of asphalt for roads and highways. [KOT]
asphaltic concrete
refining. A road topping composed of
proportioned quantities of graded aggregate and heated asphalt. The mixture
is prepared at a plant, transported to the
road under construction, and spread
while it is still hot. [KOT]
asphaltic limestones
[KOT]
asphaltic sands
much
may
yield
as
[D]
asphaltine, n.
Any
products recovered
from
asphalt-based
atreol
51
petroleums and used for roofing, flooring, paving, waterproofing, etc. [D]
asphaltite, n.
ass
asphalt mastic
A mixture of asphalt cement and mineral material which, when heated, becomes a thick mass and may be poured
asphalt
new
construction.
as a
foundation for
[KOT]
terial of
low
To augment
viscosity
used to waterproof
and
to condition
it
surface.
[KOT]
name
also
called
150
fire
[NO]
test.
asymmetric anticline
An
which
try
symme-
[PE]
a.t.
A
or
for
Ocean
no
A
to
keep
wagon
small
trade
petroleum;
fined
oil.
[BB,
little
p. 486]
[POR]
atolin, n.
assessment work
[KI]
astral oil
A name
ass
American Society
atoleine, n.
n.
of
test
test that
[KOT]
asphaltum,
norm
[KI]
als.
The
asphalt stock
refining. Asphaltic
material
from
which various grades of asphalt are pre-
pavement
American Society
the
[KOT]
asphalt rock
A limestone or sandstone impregnated
with natural asphalt or with petroleum
of asphalt base. See rock asphalt. [D]
pared.
distillation
A
ma-
A.S.T.M.
A.S.T.M.
variant of atoleine.
active
principle
atreolate. It
cohol and
[POR]
atreol, n.
is
lanolin. [A]
is
of
atreol
ammonium
soluble in water
^-'
A.S.T.M.
heavy pipe
astatize, v.t.
asphalt primer
refining.
as lifting
loose
work
solid,
v-'
[Reported]
and
al-
and
attapulgus
52
attapulgus, n.
refining. A type of clay found in the
town of Attapulgus, Texas. Oil authorities believe it is an Indian word brought
west by the Five Civilized Tribes. [KI]
automatic choke
refining.
device that automatically
provides the correct mixture of fuel and
air for starting
The
2.
attic
refining.
attic, n.
1.
hand
mechanism
that
auto-
matically varies
automatic rabbit
Washers attached to the rods of a
pumping well to keep the well free of
paraffin accumulations. [Heard]
AUTOMOBILE,
attitude valve
n.
is
[POR]
avgas, n.
Aviation gasoline. [Reported]
aviation gasoline
refining.
ax
being
n.
rich oil
laid off.
meaning
that
men
are
[Reported]
district of
in
Ohio. [POR]
automatic cathead
See cathead; a cathead which, when
properly engaged, operates automatically.
[PE]
shows
at the surface as
marked on maps
[H,
a line,
and
is
p. 118]
axle grease
refining. A grease composed of petroleum oils, rosin oil, and hydrated lime.
[KOT]
axle oil
A
a
Lima
expression
geology.
p. 105]
especially
which folding has taken place. In a circular dome, there is no plane of folding,
[MIT]
auger stem
1. A round bar
the
made
[KOT]
gasoline
axis, n.
for a rotary driller. [BB,
auger-sinker-bar guides
Guides made of four bars of iron fitted
to the auger stem to increase its girth and
render it impossible for the drill to de-
Auglaize,
falls4^-
An
when
p. 489]
viate.
auger, n.
auxiliaries, n. pi.
medium
viscosity
test,
[POR]
axman,
n.
a fellow worker
improper performance of
[Reported]
his
job.
back twist
53
B
pression in
babbitt, n.
See
1.
Babbitt
for
kettle
metal.
[NO]
2.
[BB,
p. 486]
antifriction
metal of
consisting
compositions, but
mainly of tin, copper, antimony, and
sometimes nickel; used for lining bearings. Named for the inventor, Isaac Bab-
[POR]
back band
The brake on
[PE]
backfill, v.t.
To
fill
lost
[LDO]
back-out, n.
1. A heavy
steel
adj. 2.
back pressure
mean
pressure control
back-pressure valve
backfilling, n.
refilling
of
laid.
The
off, v.t.
To unscrew
y*
been
pipe has
Loosely used to
back-brake support
A prop that supports the bac\ bra\e
*/.).
responsible for
back
Babcock tube
(q.
gang
The crew of workers
backfilling
back hoe
white,
varying
bitt.
and
will collect
Babbitt metal
soft,
which water
down on
babbitting, n.
seep
the
pipe-line
it.
The
ditch
process
which do not
exclude water from the ditch and building up the fill higher than the ground
includes discarding rocks
haust. [D]
back twist
means
them
clear
of the
its
[POR]
?r
back-up corner
54
back-up corner
The
bailer
new hand on
crown-block
The
bloc/^
corner. [Heard]
bailer.
[PE]
position of a
man
The man on
the
bailer dart
back-up
justs the
back-ups,
A
A
short
worker
who
ad-
says,
"I
ups." [Reported]
back-up tongs
Tongs used to hold the lower
of pipe while the upper section
unscrewed. [PE]
back wagon
A euphemism
section
is
being
back work
Heavy lifting
given hard use.
wor\. [KI]
wagon
(q. v.)
and
of the well
bailing
drum
in
[D]
light, belt-driven
is
in the derrick, or
it
derrick as in cable-
[POR]
bailing rope
line.
made
rope
bailer.
See sand
[POR]
bailing tub
means
of a bailer.
bail out,
pan
1.
[POR]
v.t.
drilling.
after every
cable tools.
To
slang.
To
bail, v.t.
To remove
[Heard]
bail the rathole
A sell
down
To clean out a producing well.
[Heard]
bald-headed derrick
worn
smooth. [Heard]
bailer, n.
in recovering
[Heard]
bald-headed, adj.
Descriptive of a
[D]
bail
pump
drilling.
during
oil
A baffle plate
1.
of a bailer of
bottom
[Heard]
debris
bottom of the
raising
bad job
baffle
the
[PE]
tool drilling.
for ass
An
dart valve in
bailing, n.
n. pi.
form
bailer.
v.). [S]
[NO]
top.
Heard]
ball-and-ring
method
method by which
and seat
The replaceable parts
BAILER, n.
See American
ball
dart bailer,
of standing valves
to
pump
deep
Barret burette
55
Bamboo Inch
refining.
An
abbreviation of British
Air Ministry Oxidation; a test made to determine the stability of highly refined
lubricating oils toward oxidation. [KOT]
oil
acetate,
named
for
its
odor; used
make
by
the A-frame
[OPL,
barn,
or
the
machine.
hoisting
p. 8]
n.
loid, etc.
1.
[POR]
for
By
oil.
in 1886,
two
p. 118]
2.
measure for
o~e~ three^,
five-,
or
[WIL,
land that
oil
band wheel
is
said to-^
used
in
transmitting
Barbadoes Tar
trade
name
for
West Indian
petrole-
um. [NO]
producing well; the term is always tMpreceded by the number of barrels the
J
well produces, for example, a 600-barrel- J
er. [Heard; HOUS]
barrel house
hall;
habitually
who
are out of
money
over V^
p. 70]
the house.
[HOO,
roll
them out
barrel.
barker, n.
Barret burette
special
sits
up-
wrench used
pump
tighten
to loosen or
valve seats in the working
refining.
in
of
p. 162]
wrench
barrel
barge job
A rig mounted on a barge for off-shore
drilling and wording over. [Heard]
and
barrel-type boiler
A locomotive-type boiler that
right like a barrel. [Heard]
chappij
tion.
Descriptive of a well which has no casing, perforated pipe, or screen and needs
'er
!\
barreler, n.
barefooted, adj.
bar
twenty-barrel terri)
large pulley
shaft,
who
line
prizes
the
barman, n.
A worker on a screw pipe
for trucks
B.A.M. oxidation
Amyl
p. 181]
banana
determine from a
is running
properly. See squealer. [Heard]
of different lengths,
(B.P.M.)
[KOT]
aromatic
determina-
base
56
base, n.
1
side,
is
led
is
in the
fin-base
class
tic-base
basement complex
differs
p. 48]
See base,
2.
The
batch, n.
[POR]
euphemism
for B.S. or
bottom
v.). Also
bush wash. [Heard]
called
BS&W
settlings
(qq.
and
up small
pieces of debris
one operation
effort to
[POR]
raw
v.t.
2.
grades of petrole-
improve the
Commonly
distilla-
called batching.
[OPL,
p. 123]
oil
bastard, adj.
as
lubricant
bastard sand,
and bastard
thread.
in
the
manufacture of
[POR]
rope.
batch
oil for
To mix two
an
in
batch
basket bit
tard
refining.
um
may
tion of one.
drilling to pick
quantity of
in refining;
basket, n.
1.
basic sediment
of
base petroleum
stretchers, left-
bastard sand
green hand
still
still
v.)
of refining. [D]
batch system
[KI]
distilled
bastard box
See bastard thread.
battery, n.
bastard car
A tank car with compartments of
1.
ir-
joint of
pipe
with
one irregular
thread. [Heard]
bastard
file
operated
bastard connection
Baume
The
file
with a regulation
file
on one
by the
scale
measured
[D]
Baume
system (q.
v.).
57
Baume system
B.D.
Barrels daily; an abbreviation used in
drilling reports.
[LDO,
p. 428]
Be.
An
Baume.
abbreviation of
bean, n.
A choke; a heavy nipple inserted into
and closing the flow line except for an
orifice in each stroke. The rate of flow
is regulated by the size of the choke
orifice. Customarily the size of the choke
orifice through which the well is producing is given in production reports.
For example one says, "Johnson Roe No.
1
is doing 793 barrels through a oneinch choke." [BA, p. 153] syn. choke,
choke nipple, cracked valve, and flow
bean. [PE]
bead, n.
One continuous circle welded around
a pipe. The first bead of a weld is called a
stringer bead.
bead machine
A machine
pellets are
beads,
in
which
made from
carbon-black
carbon. [Heard]
bean back,
pellets.
[Heard]
(q. v.).
beanery, n.
[Heard]
Any
n.
stick,
sneezing
walking
beam, wiggle
stick,
wobbling
beam head
The rod end of a walking beam. See
horsehead, 2 and mule head. [PE]
beam pump
A pump equipped with
a beam. It
is
beam
log.
beam hanger
p.
v.t.
n.
To
walking beam
BEAM,
p. 92]
n. pi.
Carbon
beam,
[OPL,
of
p. 490]
bean up
To
[PO]
bear cat
1.
tective belt
made
2.
pro-
beat, n.
The
wells tended by a
pumper. [WIN,
p. 139]
beater, n.
sledge
hammer
ing. [KI]
well
pumped by means
of a walk-
To look for business; said of a supplyhouse salesman, syn. Shake the trees.
[Reported]
Beaumont
Beaumont
An
early
oil
58
belly, n.
oil
sag in
ported]
Beaver,
belly
oil;
n.
A new
medium-sized
aircraft.
a revolutionary
improvement
light
The new
and
unit
is
in this field.
p. 27]
stratification fault
To
v.i.
discharge, rupture, or
diaphragm
the
blow out
at
excavation
made
in
a pipe-line
and the
enough
to
bell-hole
weld
At
least
bell nipple
[PE]
bell socket
An
cover
[D]
clamp around
so called because
it
is
belly-buster
1.
an
Specifically
rich in
[ME,
p. 762]
or a region
oil belt
Property in an
oil.
oil
region
is
other.
belt
[POR]
clamp
clamp used
belt together.
to fasten the
ends of a
[POR]
belt lace
bell hole
section
it;
[Heard]
belching well
The
belt, n.
belch,
[D]
bedding fault
and
man;
n.
bedding, n.
A bed (q. v.). A bedding plane divides
one bed from another. [D]
band
Tubing board;
clevis
bed,
1.
still
and
belly board
n.
The
cess heat
lace
[POR]
belt-line theory
The
oil-prospecting
theory
between proved
wells.
[DE,
that
the
in the area
is
p. 99]
belt stretcher
A
belt
device used to
[POR]
belt theory
p. 99]
bend, n.
A curved length of pipe,
A,at
specifically
bends, depending
upon whether the degree of the curve is
45, 90, or 180.
bend less than 45
designated
/%,
Vz
may
big hole
59
bender,
n.
pipeliner.
[WIL,
p. 69]
bending shoe
A
is
to be bent;
it
where
made from
is
it
a rein-
forced half-section of pipe twelve to eighteen inches long and has the same diameter as the pipe to be bent. [OPL, p. 71]
benzene, n.
A hydrocarbon
member
ries;
(C 6 H 6 ), the
of the aromatic or
initial
benzene
se-
[POR]
transportation of
oil:
was a six-inch
had been laid;
it
moved
it
successfully
more
terrain
[WIL,
1879.
oil
p. 52]
Big Bertha
benzine, n.
refining.
cut of naphtha run which
is too poor in burning qualities to be used
in internal-combustion engines. It is
used as a cleaning fluid, or it may be rerun through a cracking plant to improve its volatility. [POR]
Big Calcutta
benzine-naphtha, n.
A heavy fraction of petroleum made
by treating and redistilling crude naphtha.
[A]
benzinum,
n.
grit
tions of Ohio,
composed
sandstone and
grit.
of fine-grained
[LDO]
beveler, n.
An
bevels
it
for
and
[Reported]
The
natural-gas
built
by a force of some
in
Oklahoma
by
$100,000,000
struction
approximately
Continental Con-
the
Company
Com-
panies,
Cities
New
Oil of
Service,
cities,
and
industrial
p. 137]
big ditch
See buried ditch. [DO, June 25, 1948]
City.
[DO, February
oil pools. It
[WIL,
B.H.P.
big hole
1.
that
includes the
oil fields
of Kil-
gore,
29, 1948]
An
was
it
workmen
One
[POR]
American
greatest
pipe line;
be-Witchered play
east of
the war.
One
win
Big Chicago
10,000
benzol, n.
to
p. 8]
is
60
feet
big sand
name
his
ported]
bight,
To
rope.
Big Red
cavy
v.)
(q.
coal.
[NO]
by gripping with a
fasten
In
Any
pipelining.
v.t.
cable-tool
coils of a shaft
drilling,
coil of
when
the
from
[NO]
tools
pit
on a
^V
lease into
Big Inch
throw
use. [Reported]
official
who
office
tools
which workers
big trough
portion of the
Anadarko basin
November
in
16,
1947]
billy club
Big Inchers
pipelining. 1.
Inch Pipe Line.
See knock
p. 139]
165, 169]
binder, n.
Pocono formation
of
Big Injun
oil-
in
Pennsylvania.
[NO]
big lime
1.
Specifically,
[NO]
2.
County
fields,
West
Virginia.
[POR]
ly
Big Moses
A famous
Farm
clothing.
in Tyler County,
on Spen-
West
Vir-
and
half,
rains.
[WIL,
p. 128]
[OK]
bindlestiff, n.
transient
bird dog, n.
An
were so
ginia, in 1887. It
and a
1.
cer
[Heard]
bind, in a
An
stick.
oilfielder
who
carries
[OK]
<j
\-"
who
bitumen
6i
4.
oil-field
getting information.
v. 5.
To
engage
To
work so
perior when
being to learn
the
it
necessary. 7.
is
To
and
take
is,
to
if it is
to see that
completed. 8. To solicit
business; said of a supply-house represatisfactorily
it is
or
sentative
November,
contractor.
[1-5,
LAM,
who
^y
bit, n.
number
bits
means
bits
cess.
Bars
scissor-like
jaws
used
to
[KI]
gage or gauge
bit
An
mine when
size.
iron ring of
[D]
hook
is
bit oil
Whiskey given
men. [Reported]
by
bit sales-
bit
from the
oilfielders
of
[NO]
bit puller
A
drill
tool for
removing the
stem. [Reported]
disk
bit,
bit
which do the
discs
in certain formations
when
drilling
by
[POR]
rock
bit,
rams
used to
hammer
shape. [PE]
blank
The
steel
are set in
them
for
diamond
drilling.
[POR]
basket
See basket
bit
bits,
bit
with
bit hustler
biscuit cutter
biters, n. pi.
bit
one
act of
[Reported]
1.
bird dogging
The
bit dresser
bit.
[PE]
bitumen,
bit breaker
1.
special piece of equipment in the
rotary table used to connect or discon-
n.
in
bituminous
62
bituminous, adj.
1. Containing much organic or carbonaceous matter, generally in the form
of tarry hydrocarbons which are usually
as bitumen.
bituminous odor. [D]
described
2.
Possessing
bituminous sandstone
Any rock formed of coherent or cemented sandstone. Asphaltic sandstone
a loose-textured sandstone containing
asphalt.
[D]
bituminous shale
asphalt-free
is
dark-colored lubricating
and
oil
of moderate
such heavy
[D]
black sands
Sandstones of a dark brown, almost
black color, giving rise to the name,
which has been applied to the sands in
the Bradford, Allegheny, and Gaines
[NO]
fields.
containing hydrocarbons or
when rich in such
substance it yields oil or gas on distillation. Also called pyrochist or oil shale.
shale
bituminous material;
[D]
[NO]
dark, heavy
oil
summer
black
oil
and
low cold
test.
medium
viscosity
oil.
[POR]
blank, n.
A dry
black gold
A common
name
was
a well that
ture held
men
for
off
In describing
to bring under
0\lahotnan
No-
An
name
early
for petroleum.
[WIL,
p. 40]
blackjack, n.
Crude
oil
wheels. [D]
Black Magic
from what
blanket,
n.
When
process
is
known
highly refined
oil.
maximum
deposits
oil
oil.
difficult
1.
of a
from an
term
The residuum
2.
still;
flash
bituminous limestone
A limestone impregnated with bituminous material and emitting a fetid odor
when rubbed. Also called stin\ stone and
is
[NO]
ing
are
obtained,
of wax-laden oil
is
blending
63
with spud bars until the deposit is discharged, at which time the process is be-
gun
coil at the
again. [KI]
large
For example, the entire Osage Reservation was leased to one company be-
bleed,
in severalty.
was
[FO]
down
on the formation.
blank flange
[Reported]
is
other-
blank liner
blank
To
off,
v.t.
case off
bleeder line
A drain extending from the bottom of
a crude-oil storage tank through which
basic sediment and water are drawn off.
[Heard]
bleeding,
an
oil
1.
The
n.
blasting, n.
tom. [D]
1.
An
[NO]
liquid
from
2.
[POR]
[Heard]
off.
bleed a well
To
oil.
v.t.
See bleed
area.
blanket lease
method
of loosening or shat-
explosive compounds.
means
of
Where petroleum
2.
The
from a gas
a tank of
act
line,
oil.
of
draining
off
and
B.S.
or water
[POR]
bleeding core
See weeping core. [Reported]
blasting oil
bleed
Nitroglycerin. [D]
and
is
The
gas
thus
made
ucts.
[KOT]
bleached
is
called sun-
[POR]
To
[D]
n.
Blending.
blended fuel
two or more
oil
which
is
a mixture
[KOT]
blending, n.
The
bleacher, n.
1. In early refineries, the bank in which
the oil was allowed to stand for a time
before it was shipped. [NO] 2.
large,
2.
v.t.
To mix
refining. Fuel
blend,
of
oil
bleached
release pressure
a pressure vessel.
is
off, v.t.
To
from a well or
drain off liquid
from a gas line or water and B.S. from
a tank of oil. [WIN, p. 139]
1.
addition of one
oil to
its
natural
parts.
is
another so
homogeneous
gasoline
blind
64
refining.
make an
on
airtight closure
a pipe or
all lines
lead-
(also called a
Red Sand-
County,
Pennsylvania.
the end of a
a blind end
dead end). See bull plug.
n.
quality
fluorescent
and
its
oils.
[D]
products,
petroleum
of
especially
lubricating
v.i.
means
box
The
blow,
fishing tool
pipe.
n.
name
Clarion
stone,
used to
[Reported]
blind
local
bloom,
blind, n.
still.
The
[NO]
[POR]
cants, etc.
blood-rock,
oil
expelled
of natural gas.
blow a
line
down
To remove
To open
[D]
upon comple-
blow out
may
tings.
[LDO,
p. 440]
blow barrel
blind splice
To
all
fifty-five-gallon oil
drum
connected
block,
blow-by,
To
an
v.t.
area.
When
the lease
hound
(q. v.)
and steam
to water
in
n.
p. 305]
blow down a
To
boiler
from
the back
of a boiler in an endeavor to
blow the
tom
minerals,
form a thick
which would lower the efficiency
the boiler. See continuous blow-down.
so that they will not
deposit
block off
To
of
[KI]
blower,
1.
block-squeeze,
v.t.
n.
block valve
To
well. [1-2,
NO;
3,
PE;
4,
Heard]
blow wild
65
blow
To
of oil
blown petroleum
in, v.i.
and
gas.
blow
cock
off
A
still
be
[A]
air propeller.
blowing
[PO]
blowing machine
See
in
boiler.
[POR]
are
coming from
the
blow one
To
still
in
To
blowout, n.
1. A sudden or violent escape of gas
and air or gas and oil. [D] 2. refining.
A sudden, violent outburst of any vessel
under pressure, such as a pipe, a still, or
a gas line. [K]
blow job
blow
blow
itself into
water
out,
v.i.
To go
[PO]
blow
line
blowout box
which
[Reported]
blown asphalt
An
blown
blowout preventer
[POR]
with
air at a
blown
native bitumens
(vegetable)
Vegetable oil blown by passing a
stream of heated air through it. The oxidation increases the body or viscosity of
the
oil.
oil
[POR]
To
which
blown
to
To
oils
special casing
drilling
blow wash
Water blown into a batch of oil to
cause the sludge to separate from the oil.
[Reported]
blow wild
Said of a well from which the gas
escapes so violently that the well cannot
66
blue-cores
be controlled. Often when a well blows
wild it burns. [Heard; DO, January 11,
1948]
boardinghouse chicken
Hash. [Reported]
Narrte for
Ames
the
in Ohio.
[NO]
blue elephant
See elephant. [BB,
p.
Board of Trade
The name given
488]
at
The name
sand
in
Butler
mixture of heavy
oils
and
paraffin
oils.
top in 1901
won
bob-tail, n.
1.
2.
[WIN,
sand
A name
[Reported]
poles.
[ST,
have com-
p. 139]
p. 130]
bob-tail off,
To drop
it
bluff
sure.
v.i.
To pump;
blue whistler
bob,
ported]
gas well.
[Reported]
when
boar's nest
bob gauge
[POR]
p. 188]
oil
Noveminterests
[NO]
blue
Pennsylvania, in
Although mercantile
Titusville,
ber, 1865.
Monday Sand
Blue
change in an oil region, which was organized by merchants and oil shippers
blue gas
See blau or blue gas.
boardinghouse mystery
blue-cores, n.
\,\_/
is
v.t.
tail.
[Heard]
bob-tail rig
given to the
first
[NO]
B.O.
for use
1.
where space
BOARDINGHOUSE,
n.
ptomaine
cafe, stooler.
tail, 2.
[Heard]
body, n.
A term used
are heavy-
and light-bodied
oil.
oils,
There
depend-
boll-weevil stunt
6y
ing upon whether they are heavy and
and
viscous or light
The measure
the number of
fluid.
expressed in
seconds which a given quantity of the oil
at a given temperature flows through an
of fluidity
aperture.
is
[POR]
and
[D]
gas.
boil, v.i.
which gas
ly as
it
flows
the action
oil
is
from the
well. Occasionally
so violent that
some
of the
To change
a liquid to vapor
[BA, pp.
plication of heat.
BOILER, n.
See barrel-type boiler,
tive-type boiler,
boiler
The
Long
by the ap-
155, 201]
kettle,
locomo-
horsepower
unit by which
boiler-generated
v.t.
*^
To
and
most
contained in
v.i.
v.i.
tidy
any
or oil pipe
boiler rockers
fields
103]
1.
or borer.
which the
final
Texas
capacity. 3. In California, a
grease cup
cates
boll-weevil corner
The
position of a
bac\-up
[Heard]
the
new hand,
corner
on the
usually
rig
floor.
boll-weevil lubricator
shop-made device that injects lubrioil into the steam line on a drilling rig. Sometimes shortened to boll
cating
weevil.
is
lightest fluid
To
boll weevil
at
drop
from
[POR]
boil over,
The temperature
first
power
boilerhouse,
which the
To
John, pot.
at
the fluid.
valuable as a source of
To
The temperature
volatile
boghead coal
A dark brown
1.
[WIN,
p. 138]
boll-weevil stunt
blunder
other workers.
[WIN,
that
p. 138]
endangers
68
boll-weevil tongs
boll-weevil tongs
Short, very strong
boom,
is
Any
Men who
known
as
n.
where there
place
is
a great deal
troleum industry
as
an
oil
boom. [WIN,
p. 138]
boom
138]
derrick
bomb,
n.
bond,
v.i.
To
[KI]
ly.
n. 2.
[POR]
bone, n.
A formation in which drilling
cult.
[BB,
p.
[POR]
crane.
is diffi-
boomer,
2.
boom town
town
1.
n.
The
boot, n.
through which
which
So
called because of
tions. 3.
welder's protective headgear;
a cover for protection. [PE]
boot cap
bonus man
on the boot
first-class
telegraph
operator.
The
bonus wires
Telegraph
centers
also in
The
rapidly as a
Used
protects the
oil.
booster station
2.
grown
auxiliary
bonnet,
that has
result of a discovery of
An
488]
n.
its
stills,
etc.
shape. [KI]
sure that
if
therefore, shippers
make
boot jack
lines
on which
all
between
important
now
re-
bottling
69
borehole
boot-jack off
To
works
pump
A pump
[D]
borer, n.
An
name
early
[BOW,
p. 11]
boring bar
bootleg, v.t.
To handle goods or deals surreptitiously or through other than regular or legal
channels. [Reported]
bootlegger, n.
One who handles
goods. [Reported]
bootleg
deals
or
bootleg packer
A makeshift packer.
When
it
is
im-
water between the lowest upperwater sand and the first oil sand, and at
the same time it is necessary to run tubing through the open hole to the oil
off
sand,
it
is
often a practice to
make an
[POR]
boot socket
See boot jack. [PE]
bore, n.
1. A hole made by boring. 2. The diameter of an engine piston or the inside
diameter of the cylinder bore.
v.t. 3. To
make a hole or perforation with a boring
instrument. 4. To cut a circular hole by
the rotary motion of a tool, as to bore for
water, oil, etc. [D]
rock-boring
chisel.
[D]
borehole, n.
[D]
labor.
[D]
boring journal
A book which contains an accurate
record of the day-to-day progress of the
boring work. See log and dopebook.
[POR]
boring rod
A segmented rod. At the lower end
is
borings,
n. pi.
ground by
and washed up with the matter
from the bottom of the borehole. [PE]
Particles (usually fine rock)
the bit
BOSS, n.
See big shot, crumb boss, Czar, farm
boss, head knocker, Head Roustabout,
high power, Kingfish, lease boss, Man,
nipple-chaser, Old Man, party chief, pot
man, pressure, pusher, riding boss, rousty
foreman, spread foreman, stroke department, wheel.
bottled gas
Liquefied petroleum gases, such as
butane or propane, sold in pressure containers for domestic uses. [Reported]
bottleneck, n.
bore bit
manual
1.
work
small passage.
2.
duction of
oil.
slow piece of
work
in the pro-
[PE]
bottleneck pipe
bottling
An
works
illicit
saloon.
[NO]
bottom
bottom,
To
70
bottom
v.t.
the well
chat.
bottom draw
refining. The
heaviest
feet in
product
of
bottom-hole
money
[LAN,
p. 86]
bottom-hole packer
term generally applied to the emulsions of oil, water, and mud which settle
out of the crude in storage and which
have no value as a petroleum base. B.S.
from Pennsylvania crude is, however, an
emulsion of water and amorphous wax
which when properly freed from foreign
matter forms an excellent base for the
light yellow and darker grades of petroleum. Also called basic sediment. [D]
bottom sheets
The
bottom-hole pressure
The
oil reservoir.
bottom-hole sampler
An
the
bottom of the
bottom-hole temperature
bomb
bottoms,
1.
2.
and
BS&W.
The
layer of rock
which
serves as the
term
is
bot-
still
bottom of
and decomthe heavier components or to
to the
to prevent overheating
position of
[POR]
bottom up,
v.t.
To
bottom water
Water in oil
is
[D]
boulder sand
ty,
Pennsylvania.
bounce,
Coun-
[NO]
v.t.
bottomsets, n.
or tank. [D]
bottom steam
The steam admitted
A name for
still
The crude
steel plates
of taking bottom-
settlings (B.S.)
drill.
[NO]
break fever
71
bounce
To
off
an engine
kick off an engine, particularly a gas engine that is started by kicking downward on the flywheel. [Heard]
start or
pipe and put it in the rat hole independent of the cathead. [Reported]
B. P.
[LDO,
in
bouncing pin
drilling reports.
B. R.
Building rig; an abbreviation used in
in
boweevil,
[OK]
weevil.)
n.
The
spider in
bowl-gudgeon,
n.
box,
[NO]
n.
[LDO,
drilling reports.
bradenhead,
worthless fellow. 2.
novice in
work. (A corruption of boll
oil-field
bowl,
1.
~-<^
n.
p. 428]
p. 428]
n.
bradenhead gas
box, look
brain, n.
[D]
box, condenser
A box
in
distillate
[POR]
box, quarter
form
of ta\e-up used
The
parts,
the shaft.
[POR]
of preventing leakage
An
[WIN,
p. 138] 2.
Any
brains department
1. The engineering department. [WIN,
2. Any administrative group.
p. 138]
[Reported]
brainstorm,
An
n.
engineer. [Heard]
BRAKE,
n.
brake drum
around
which
line
[KOT]
brake fever
The ailment
of a
pires to be a driller.
disease
bozo
engineer.
brake.
box, stuffing
A means
1.
is
roughneck
who
symptom
as-
of the
JfV
break horsepower
72
brake horsepower
The power developed by an engine, as
measured at the crankshaft or flywheel by
the friction brake or some other device.
v.
BREAK,
[D]
See
jack
brake rider
To
6.
brea\ down.
Reported; 6,
[1, 2, 3,
wringer-neck.
jack-boot
off, crater,
breakbone fever
brake shoe
confined to the
A common
breakdown,
n.
refining.
chemists to
An
drum
of
[KOT]
brake weight
A name
which
that opens
brass pounder
telegraph operator. [Reported]
brea, n.
Sand or
soil
um
The
1.
An
vernacular
name
for a plainly
shale
[NO]
oil fields).
refining.
the
at
The
and
by
the
correct
time for
igniting
fuel.
[KOT]
break
it
up
breakout, n.
1. See breakout tongs.
[BB, p. 487]
v. (brea\ out) 2. To pull pipe, rods,
or casing from the well and to unscrew
the pipe into lengths permitted by the
height of the derrick. This action also
breakout block
block of steel
made
break, n.
marked
boota pin,
To
branch pipes
v.
breaker point
1.
jump
whip off.
off,
predetermine
[Heard]
5,
the brake
stationary portion
off,
Heard;
4,
14, 1947]
n.
twist-off,
driller
The
NO;
DO, October
where
tinuous sandstone.
3.
Sometimes loosely
it
to
[POR]
breakout deuce
pipelining.
A command
to
tongmen
on the pipe so
[WIL,
p. 69]
brimstone
73
breakout
man
stem
it is
and
pi.
to small faults
as shale breaks.
is
F., vis-
in
[POR]
[NO]
bridge, n.
1.
[NO]
collection
of
debris
To become
2.
v.i.
in
well.
plugged by
bridging, n.
as bric\ oil,
brickyard mixer
breakout tongs
A heavy pipe wrench used to connect
and disconnect drill pipes. Also called lay
tongs. [D]
breaks, n.
known
The plugging
which
leaves
of a well by a method
open holes between the
breakup, n.
See breakdown. [KI]
breather roof
A tank roof; a modification of the cone
bridle, n.
ported]
when
the roof
is
resting
upon them
it
breathing, n.
Intermittent flowing of
1.
wells,
oil
and flowing by
the rise
and
fall
of the temperature.
[ME,
beam
hanger.
[WIN,
p. 138]
bridle irons
term introduced into the oil indusby the early rig builders, who used it
in connection with a flat strip of iron
try
bent to support timber. Today the purpose of the bridle irons is to hold the cap
on the jack-post boxes down or against
the
drill-
ing or
bridle reins
who works
rapidly. [Reported]
Briggs standard
p. 763]
breathing loss
Gas lost by evaporation. [BB,
etc.
p. 489]
as
standard.
oils,
generally
[D]
breathings, of the earth
[NO]
brick oil
One grade
oils,
to
meaning
clear
or free
A
is
a pale, nonviscous
oil,
or
oil, possessing
a gravity of 34 Be., a flash point of 340
F., a fire test of 400F., a cold test of 20
and a
Applied
refining.
lubricating
bright stock
a light-bodied lubricating
F.,
bright, adj.
brimstone,
n.
74
It
B.S. or
deposits
or coke (slacked)
blocks
formula
[D]
b.s.
An
emulsion of
called
briquets.
The
usual
calls for
briqueting asphalt
An asphalt used as a binder for slack
coke in making briquets. See briquet.
[KI]
B.S. itself
settlings.
[Heard]
BS&W
Basic sludge and water; abbreviated in
reports to BS&W. The waste collects
all
British oil
in 1828.
One
[NO]
bronc,
weevil (q. v.); more frequently applied to a person with only slight experience. See bronchitis. [Reported]
bronchitis, n.
The ailment
afflicting a driller
v.).
(q.
when
[Re-
An
[POR]
bubble bucket
[OK]
brown nose
One who flatters
his boss.
See draper
graper. [Reported]
brown nosing
The art of flattering
thermal
bronze John
sun.
p. 159]
B.T.U.
ported]
The
(q. v.).
gang
B.S.
n.
some
goes into the pipe lines, and the purchasing company usually deducts from 1 to
2 per cent for
before paying for
the oil it has bought. Possibly a euphem-
BS&W
broken, adj.
Mixed; said of shale, lime, or any
other formation of a mixed character.
[DO, October 19, 1947]
and
oil
ers. B.S. is
v.t.
To compound
into
1.
[Reported]
one's boss.
[Re-
ported]
bubble cap
Br. sh.
bubble-cap tray
brown petroleum
resulting
Brown
shale;
drilling reports.
an abbreviation used in
[LDO,
p. 428]
refining.
pan
in a fractionat-
75
ing tower for distilling petroleum prod-
[KOT]
ucts.
bubble deck
refining. The steel plate or tray with
cooling caps where stilling vapors bubble
then rise to bubble from deck to deck
to the top of the tower. Also called bubble
plate and bubble tray. [KI]
bubble plate
One
lug and
lug-loader.
conditions,
near. [Reported]
buck tongs
To work
as
common
laborer
on a
buck up
bubble point
line.
buckwheat batter
bubble tower
is
To
[Reported]
Specifically, a
1.
An
buffalo grips
The clamps on
munication
great ambition
(usually at
[Reported]
body
dump
truck resembling
On
either side
body
is
site.
One
bug,
lines.
and com-
[Reported]
n.
An
A blower used to repel insects annoying the laborers around the drill rig. [PE]
An
for a
is
bug roost
bucket, n.
bug blower
v.t.
To show
tion.
1,-
drill-
depth of
buffalo, n.
to hold a line
buck,
at a
p. 488]
bubble tray
name given by
found
to
bugs, n. pi.
Seismograph crews; short for doodlebugs, the oil-field term by which the
crews are known. [Heard; DO, January
11, 1948]
sonable than
that
many
is
slightly
more
rea-
rabbits
build a pit
76
build a pit
To dig a pit and use the excavated dirt
to build a bank. The pit is dug if no
bank is built. [Reported]
[BA,
unskilled
semiskilled
laborers
who
around the
refinery.
[Re-
work
bull nose
transport
bull, n.
term
so
or
at jobs
p. 32]
ported]
bulk boat
An open
used
compounding
in
many oil-field
named is usually
names
do not require
2. A crew of
skilled labor.
of
bull-li\e because
it
devices.
the
A device
characterized as
has great strength and
bull
the laborers of
where
can smoke.
refinery
[Reported]
bull plug
A plug which is
temporarily screwed
end of an unfinished pipe line
keep out dirt, small animals, etc. [D]
A plug used on any type of line or
1.
into the
to
2.
pipe. [Reported]
bull
pump
bull rope
1.
bulldog casing-spear
pen
wheel to the band wheel. [NO] 2. cabletool drilling. The rope from which the
boring tools are suspended and with
which they are worked. [D] Originally
[NO]
bulldog nose
See cab-over. [Reported]
a nautical term.
bulldog spear
The
sharp
[POR]
pump. [BB,
p. 487]
earth-moving machine.
3.
2.
large,
bully. [Re-
ported]
bull
gang
bull
wheel
large,
horizontal,
wooden
spindle
bulldozer, n.
1.
bull tongs
Samson
post.
[NO]
bully, n.
1.
Any
nec\ (q.
bump,
1.
oil-field
v.).
worker. [S]
2.
A rough-
[PO]
v.t.
refining.
Boiler
from water;
burping well
77
is called bumping, slang. 2.
use seniority to get a job to which
the process
To
someone with
[KI]
SA,
To
3.
less
seniority
is
entitled.
down
let
bump
bottom of the
the
it
can
to be desired
is
main
sill
which connects
bur, n.
bump down
tion
A
the
200]
p.
To
bunting pole
rotary drilling
[Heard]
bit.
buried ditch
A local term for a buried prehistoric
river or ravine, such as the Bartlesville
groove in the Ceres field, Noble County,
2,
1948]
or paraffin
bumping will dislodge the foreign substance. With proper spacing, the rods
will
the engine
is
burn a
1.
bit
To
too
drill
To
drilling.
fast.
2.
cable-tool
forge. [Heard]
burn a pole
bumped heads
To slide down a pole. When a linesman on a pipe-line crew lets his climbers
Convex
known
or tanks. Sometimes
boilers
as
bump
To
carried
is
on without
jars.
pumping
stop the
burner,
2. refining.
very tall stac\ (q. v.) for consuming
waste fumes. [Reported]
pumping
other
affecting
it
possible to
wells
activated
1,
to
which
all
waste
oil
by a
is
material
treater
is
then burned.
The temperature
at
which
a volatile
an open vessel will ignite and continue to burn when a flame is held close
oil in
to
surface.
its
test
which determines
the safety of kerosene and other illuminants. See fire test. [D]
v.t.
contracts
and
bung down,
refining.
burning test
See
fire test.
[NO]
burning waters
poetic
name
by
v.t.
bunker fuel
ships.
pit
burning point
of their
May
pit
[Heard]
sell
To
name
[D]
oil:
1.
1.
burning
oil.
oil
called coal
by the
bundle, n.
2.
n.
welder. [Heard]
A common
bundle,
burning
stop the
um, p.
[NO]
1.
of a jac\ well.
bump-off post
A device which makes
bbl."
gets splint-
[N]
[Heard]
oil
and
when
a well
off
no part
n.
drilling
slip
[Heard]
ers.
bumper,
v.)
(q.
down,
burping well
[KOT]
on steam-
[Heard]
Burton process
78
Burton process
yield of gasoline
bushing,
n.
size;
[LDO,
n.
refining.
saturated hydrocarbon
(C 4 10 ), boiling point 32 F.; hence a
gas at ordinary atmospheric conditions.
The main constituent of Shell butane
[KOT]
fuel.
The name
The
oil field
in Penn-
which was
sunk on the Archy Buchanan farm by
the Foster Oil Company, yielded a daily
production of seventy barrels. [POR]
sylvania in 1874.
well,
butyl alcohol
refining. A series of alcohols with the
chemical formula C 4 9
and a boiling point between 182 and 243 F.
H OH
[KOT]
and riveted
sleeve
p. 455]
butane,
a hollow plug
bushwash, n.
A euphemism
to
it.
The
may
strap
may
be single-
butylene, n.
refining.
Unsaturated hydrocarbon
with the chemical formula C 4 8 and a
boiling point between 21 and 34 F.
[KOT]
by heads
butterfly, n.
device
for
directing
pumping
flowing of a well:
heads. [D]
[LDO]
by-pass
buttermilk sand
at a
butterworth,
To
oil
named
loop.
v. 3.
rotary drilling.
To
drill
by
v.t.
(q. v.).
The
inventor, a
Mr.
process
n,
for
its
Butterworth. [Heard]
by-pass type
button, n.
A block nailed on the rig floor in
which to set the bit while the stem is
screwed into it. [Heard]
refining.
filter installation in which
the oil is circulated from the pump
through the filter and returned to the
crankcase. [KOT]
button pole
by-pass valve
The
button up,
1.
To
[Heard]
v.t.
finish
line.
filter
calf reel
79
C
when
of the well
The
abbreviation
centigrade;
for
being
divisions,
cabbage head
The
cable, n.
1.
sisting
of
handed.
2.
or for aerial
cable
three
steel
drill.
[Heard]
cable tools
Tools used in the Pennsylvanian or
percussion system of drilling. The apparatus used in drilling deep holes, such
as artesian wells, with a rope instead of
rods to connect the drill with the machine on the surface. A heavy bit is raised
and dropped
cable-laid rope
wire cable
made
several ropes
of
An
rope
is composed
of strands of hawser-laid
rope, twisted right-handed. [D]
called
posed of strands.
fiber cable-laid
oil-well drilling,
from
made
manila hemp. [POR]
cable slide
which the
descend very quickly from
cable car in
a very high
the cable,
earth's
cliff
driller
may
a tower
on
or point. Fastened to
along on the
hen
cage,
1.
of a fine grade of
its
is
name
oil-camp
limited to
cables, n. pi.
Ropes used in
and pounds
c ackle berry
com-
in the hole,
cab-over, n.
A truck with the engine set under the
cab. Also called snub nose, bulldog nose,
and bull nose. [Heard]
cable drilling
Drilling with rope.
l
2 to 2
is
drill
See churn
end
fruit
is
imparted by
One end
of the
beam
is
beam
its
(q. v.).
n.
The
used in
oil
production. [D]
cajun, n.
cake, n.
Bread.
[OK]
calf line
*^
[PE]
cable-tool drilling system
The
raise
cable used
and lower
on a
casing.
cable-tool rig to
[ME,
p.
763]
calf reel
The
cable
borehole. [PE]
calf
calf
wheel
80
wheel
The
horizontal
drum at the left of and beyond the Samson post, placed half in the derrick and
half in the belt house. It is usually operated by chain and sprockets from the
main shaft of the rig and is used to raise
and lower casing. Drilling and settingcasing operations may be carried on at
the same time: casing is set with the
calf wheel and drilling is done with the
cable-tool drilling.
camera,
n.
To run a camera is to
impression of the fish (q. v.)
in order to determine the kind of tool
necessary to engage it. Also called \oda\
and impression bloc\. [Heard]
fishing tool.
make an
camp, n.
A community
built
headquarters of a
[NO]
bull wheel.
[WIN,
California derrick
can,
1
up around
major
oil
the
company.
p. 138]
v.t.
To
cans of
California-style rig
rig
to permit
[Heard]
field
name
for
the Schlumberger
in place of rope.
call whistle
type of
summons used
in the Sin-
clair
ployee
is
differs
needed, a
When
a certain
call is sent to
em-
a central
and the operator of the air-compressor station blows the worker's code
number. Also used as a fire alarm.
office,
The Canadian
particularly
suitable
same
powerful water
The
flush.
of the
tion
which
origi-
wire
lines.
calyx
A
may
drill
special
it
wooden rods
Modern outfits
uses
in-
use
[LDO]
canal, n.
canal coal
See cannel
coal.
[D]
canal ditch
The trough into which the drilling
fluid from the hole is turned in rotary
drilling. [BB, p. 486]
canal wrench
for
Canadian rig
calyx, n.
long, cylindrical vessel of the
makes it necessary to
have some positive method of rotating
the bit. [POR]
is
and is
regions where
excessive caving
[Heard]
pole
line
spoon. [KI]
Carboniferous
candy bottoms
end.
cannel coal
massive,
fine,
an
3.
oil
or gas well.
To
v.t. 4.
an
cover with
oil or gas
[D]
luster,
ratio,
easy ignition,
black to
brown greasy
ate ash. It
is
streak,
essentially a
and
solidification
and moder-
rock derived by
partial
distillation
capillarity, n.
refining.
of a liquid
solid (as oil
capping,
or
The
n.
1.
to the
method by
is
[Heard]
cap rock
canning plant
The
which
can of vacuum
A common
ply houses.
sup-
[Reported]
cant hook
A tool with a movable iron hook near
the bottom, used for moving heavy timbers and pieces of machinery. Originally
a nautical term.
[POR]
cants, n. pi.
[NO]
carbenes,
n.
carbonaceous, adj.
Containing carbon or
coal, especially
of
carbon
distributed
throughout
the
can up,
v.t.
to get up steam in a
way: to dip oil from a large
container and throw it on the wood fire
in the boiler firebox. The dipper was a
can nailed to the end of a long stick. 2.
Now, to get up steam. [ST, p. 74]
1.
Originally,
particular
cap, n.
The
top of the rock covering a deposit of oil or gas, nearly always free of
1.
carbon black
1. A pigment which is made by one of
three processes from natural gas or by
one process from oil. It greatly resembles
lampblack or soot, and is used as an ingredient in ink and as a rubber reinforcing agent for which there is no satisfactory substitute. [Reported] 2. See lampblack. [D]
Carboniferous, n.
The youngest of the systems into which
the Paleozoic stratified rocks are divided;
also the corresponding period of geological time.
[D]
Carboniferous system
82
Carboniferous system
case
[LDO]
tural gas.
oil
trade
kerosene.
name
[NO]
carbon knock
A knock or pounding
gauge or a
Farm
when
old
Clapp
the
his first
As
of
thousand barrels of
oak barrel upright and counted the $10,000 on the barrel's head. [WIL, p. 39]
[POR]
carbon
casing, n.
oil
[N]
carbon residue
Carbon left after the oil has been
strongly heated and volatilized in the
absence of
air.
[KOT]
car oil
Black lubricating oils described as low
cold-test black oil. [D]
carry,
v.t.
To run
casing
intermittently
it.
while
[D]
drill a
no water
is
drill
a borehole in
which there
is
carrying handle
The handgrip on the side of the stuffing box and polish-rod unit. [Reported]
carrying interest
type of drilling contract by
which
cased hole
off, v.t.
To
and
re-
casing anchor-packer
A type of packer. [D]
strings of casing.
[D]
present. \S]
term applied
To
casing bowl
To
1.
casing clamps
Two heavy steel bars (about 1 Vz inches
by 12 inches, or several feet long in some
cases), each formed in a semicircle with
projecting ends. The two, bolted about
a casing, rest upon a foundation and
form a support
casing cutters
Instruments used in the
casing prior to raising
after the
it
[POR]
oil fields to
cut
to the surface
casing dog
An instrument used in well-boring
provided with serrated pieces, or dogs,
which slide on a wedge to grip severed
casing. Also called bulldog and casing
spear. Dog is used in combination with
other words to describe various mechanical devices usually consisting of a tooth
or claw
which
holding. [D]
is
casing tester
83
casing elevators
and lower
casing. [A]
casing head
1. A fitting used at the top of the casing of a well to separate oil and gas, to
allow pumping and cleaning of the well,
casing-head gas
1.
named
because
it is
from the
oil at
casing-head gasoline
The
gasoline
extracted
from
casing-
[POR]
casing-head pressure
See shut-in pressure. [BA,
casing pole
A device used to tighten pipe connections by hand. [Heard]
casing pressure
slits
in the casing.
[D]
casing shoe
An
[PE]
casing spear
casing.
As
tool
it is
casing spider
A heavy steel piece with a large, coneshaped hole provided with slips to hold
casing suspended.
[POR]
p. 153]
casing splitter
casing hook
A heavy hook, usually attached to the
traveling pulley block, which engages
the links of the casing elevator. [D]
casing knife
The
steel
casing spool
A calf wheel (q.
v.).
casing substitute
A connection used in fishing with the
rotary drill. [D]
to be set. [Heard]
More
casing point
casing
implement used
[NO]
casing swab
wire line used to hoist and
The
An
ing.
which
from a
well.
casing tester
A device used
to
casing
wagon
casing
wagon
K dolly
84
customer to be supplied with gas
was the Abell House, an inn in
Fredonia, New York, in 1821. [WIL,
first
lights
cast, n.
The
fluorescence or
bloom
of
an
oil;
oils.
p. 27]
catchall, n.
[POR]
for
tool
ments from
drilled wells.
[D]
catch can
cat, n.
1.
pecker
pillar tractor.
[OPL,
p. 58]
3.
An
early
The
origin of the
haps
it is
cat.
were either
unmarried or left their families behind
while they moved rapidly from one job
pipeliners designated old cats
tool
catch tray
See take-off
tray.
[Heard]
cat cracker
1. A building without walls or roofs
where molecules of oil are fractured by
2.
A short
cat distillation
An abbreviation of catalyst distillation
(q. v.). [KI]
catfish, n.
An
who
talks a lot
and
[Heard]
cat head
catalyst, n.
in the presence of
An oil-camp
ported]
name
cathead, n.
catalyst cracker
octane gasoline.
catcher, n.
More
called cat
cracker. [D]
To
a cathead. 2.
To
tighten
up by means of
up a derrick.
[Heard]
catalyst distillation
catheader, n.
catalytic cracking
on
catastrophic lights
lights.
The
cathead man
The roughneck on a rotary crew
who
CD.
85
cathodic protection
method
mercially
known
known
soda,
chemically
The
1.
partial or
complete falling in
cave-catcher
See bootleg packer. [Heard]
cat plant
cave-in, n.
line smaller
A
by
refined
oil is
[ME,
p. 763]
cavey, adj.
and kittens
cats
Any
cat-line, n.
as
cave, n.
as
cats;
[Re-
ported]
cavings
filler
device that works on the same principle as a sand pump (q. v.) on a plunger
:
that trips
and
fills.
[Heard]
cat's ass
A
ass
when he
or
ported]
cat skinner
The
tractor.
[Heard]
catsup, n
nickname
for
an employees'
trans-
wagon
trailer
on the derrick
floor.
ma-
its
original
volume when
salt
c.c.
C clamp
[Heard]
C.C.P.
catwalk, n.
Any narrow
An
C.C.R.
caustic lime
calcium
caustic potash
times
eight
cattle truck
cat
cavy, adj.
caustic soda
refining. Strong reactive alkali, com-
An
Cd. or Crd.
Cored; an abbreviation used in
ing reports.
[LDO,
drill-
p. 428]
CD.
Corrected depth; an abbreviation used
in drilling reports.
[LDO,
p. 428]
86
cellar
center bit
cellar, n.
An
[POR]
cement,
To
to the
The
force
of
air
cleans
it.
the
[KI]
cemented up
name
few
feet
central
pumping
station
pump
which
fur-
a large
num-
same
nishes the
power
[LDO,
area.
cement
it
early
center irons
v.t.
force
An
to
p. 452]
centrifuge, n.
cementer, n.
1. A cementing company, specifically
the Halliburton Oil Well Cementing
Company of Duncan, Oklahoma. [Heard
West Texas, Oklahoma City, and Duncan, Oklahoma, fields] 2. Any worker
on a well-cementing crew except the
truck driver. 3. (The Cementer) House
organ of the Halliburton Oil Well
Wax
fuge;
it
[D]
cetane, n.
[KOT]
cetane number
A measure of the ignition properties of
Diesel fuel, determined by a measuring
which
device
by numbers. [KI]
erties
cetene, n.
in the
cement
the lining tubes which allows
collar or circle of
centrifuge stock
cementing collar
just inside
less
room
cementing shoe
C.F.R.
[PE]
[KOT]
tool
cement
A
v.).
much
like the
cementing collar
man
eg.
(q.
drill-
chat
87
charge,
C.G.
An
[POR]
C.G.S.
An
abbreviation
for
the
centimeter-
n.
charging belt
refining.
chain breaker
from
The
chain-operated station
marketing. A filling station operated
with others of its kind and/or with stations under the same ownership, either
by an oil producer or by a multiunit operator independent of any producer.
charging jitney
[SHU,
filters
p. 148]
who
early
name
operates the
man,
slinger.
[Heard]
chain tongs,
n. pi.
pipe fitter's tool; a lever with a serrated end provided with a chain to enlace the pipe. The chain is wrapped
around the pipe to hold the lever in
place, and the teeth on the end of the
latter grip into the pipe, thus affording
a powerful leverage to screw or unscrew
the joints. [N]
early
and conveys
it
which
is
to be treated in a
chalk rock
An
refining.
charging stock
chain slinger
An
dump
name
To
it
channel process
channel test
The Knopf
mixed
spike test
made on
gear
lubricants to show the lowest temperature at which the lubricant can be used
without channeling. [KOT]
fossils
regions.
[POR]
cheap
cheap
oil
cherries, n. pi.
oil
removed (mostly
lightest fractions
[BOW,
gasoline).
p. 95]
1.
form
or mouth,
1.
wrench so
that
more
leverage
may
checkerboard,
To
checkerboarding, n.
A new method by which wildcatting is
financed, devised by James E. O'Neil. He
leased scattered farms and ranches so
distributed as to benefit his
company
if
money
some
were
and drilling contractors and
workers were often persuaded to take
their pay in stock. This system, also
called poor boying, led to the opening of
in the middle,
of these leases
resold,
many new
fields.
[T, p. 133]
An
which permits a
paraffin
saturated with
cheesebox,
is
oil.
n.
distillation of kerosene.
[NO]
end,
so
chicken-farm sand
A Bartlesville sand;
so called because
discovered it took his profits from a chicken farm to make a fortunate venture in the Bartlesville, Okla-
the
man who
homa,
mediately; therefore it was so named because the well was drilled on a small
poultry farm. The name is applied in
several fields producing
early
from
this
zone.
[Reported]
A
wax
used in the
it
run
from the
to chill the
oil.
wax and
[POR]
oil
be-
[D]
ring
A ring for
still
name
chill point
chill
cheesebox
An
it
separate
cheese, paraffin
cut
a modified
in
check valve
The
is
is
The lower
resembles a
its
shape, the device as it turns
works around and behind the fish that
has become partly embedded in the wall
of the hole and engages it (as the regular
horn socket would not). This ability to
reach out and grasp a lost tool led to the
name. [D; POR] 2.
California boll
weevil (q. v.). Also called prune picker.
[Reported]
that
1.
v.t., v.i.
To
which
peculiar
cheater, n.
a smaller
CI
fishing tool
steal hole.
[OK]
Beans.
cherry picker
welded
89
chimney,
circulate, v.t.
n.
To keep up
and out
a constant flow of
of a well
when
mud
in
securing samples
The
bit rotates
but does not drill. The field term is logging. [Heard; DO, October 29, 1947]
circulation, n.
chinch trapeze
The
springs of
camp
camps.
cots in oil
[Heard]
The passage of water, with or without mud, through a rotary borehole. [D]
circus is
chisel tongs
chocolate rocks
the Second
Creek, Pennsylvania,
called putty roc\s. [NO]
Oil
See
[Heard]
city-lot drilling
drilling of offset wells
acreages.
choke,
bean,
[SHU,
choke
city of flowing gold
choke nipple
in 1918.
A common name
[HOU,
p. 38]
[LDO]
C.L.
Center
Christmas tree
An
on small
p. 44]
See bean.
town
Also
field.
n.
automatic
to
circus rule
The
CHOKE,
coming
fittings
line;
an abbreviation used in
[LDO,
drilling reports.
p.
428]
clam-shell shovel
An excavating shovel
[POR]
Christmas-tree assembly
A Christmas tree with all the attachments made. [POR]
churn
1.
drill
from a
drill
head
is
electricity, or
raised by
steam.
means
of a
is allowed to drop,
thus striking successive blows which pulverize the rock and deepen the hole.
drill or
well
drill.
[D]
The
tural gases.
circular base
which
claw,
n.
A
v.).
refiner's
The
term for
trade
name
fuller's earth
is
(q.
attapulgus; also
circle, n.
jack
clapper, n.
driven by gasoline,
The
on pipe
claroline, n.
usually
used
is
made
of steel for a
[NO]
for
clay
wash
clay
wash
90
to
or odor of an oil
considered
are
oils
[LAM, November,
CLEAN,
clean
liquids.
tubes, scrub,
blow a
blow down
bail out,
clean,
v.t.
use a sand
ings, etc.
[Heard;
pump
to
remove
DO, October
14,
cav-
1947]
2.
tem
To
that
If
storage
stills.
leases to
of his
He must
then
cost.
well.
p. 96, n. 1]
Clem,
The
n.
who
acts as
a fire-wall lawyer (q. v.) in the management-labor films that are shown regu-
His business
larly.
is
to
tell
foremen how
a worker
When
lubricating
oils.
[KOT]
poles.
p. 32]
clean-out machine
reverse-circulation rig
which
drills
climbers,
n. pi.
Cross bolts under spear bolts to prevent the pump rods from stripping. [D]
C-link, n.
clean-out string
tools
clinograph, n.
An instrument for making and recording a straight-hole test during drilling.
[LDO]
clinometer, n.
An instrument which
clean up,
slope of the
1.
oil well.
enough
sell
clean-out crew
A group of production workers who
clean accumulated mud, sand, or paraffin
from wells with a light drilling rig. [BA,
1.
[DO,
flash
[KI]
tanks.
a lessee fails to
[BA,
clean drilling
Drilling with mud (q. v.) instead of
with oil; oil is used when coring with a
diamond bit. [Heard]
clean out,
the
18, 1947]
To
To empty
November
1947, p. 5]
1.
clear storage
distillate
y.t.
See
line
method used
v.i., v.t.
Said of a
new
oil
well
when
it
be-
strata.
measures
[LDO]
the
of the
cluck
91
close in
clip, n.
To
well
and shut
in.
[Heard]
which
it
management company
able security.
[LDO,
issued,
redeem-
p. 889]
fold in
Sand
good
that
form
[D]
closure, n.
vertical
anticlinal crest
A
which the limbs have been
is
oil reservoir.
cloth oil
closed fold
oil.
close sand
The
company
closed-end
lands producing
to,
p. 810]
close nipple
nipple whose length is about twice
the length of a standard pipe thread and
is without any shoulder; an all-thread
tion.
not adjacent
nipple. [D]
closed basin
close-in royalties
closed anticline
A dome. [Heard]
face into
close the
[LDO,
close a well in
kill a
To
parallel.
[D]
distillates
closed-in pressure
cloud point
p. 153]
The temperature
closed-in production
Production shut
off,
to congeal
but available.
ance in
[PO]
tillation.
closed pressure
cloud test
short,
shaped
cast-
fitting for
pipes. It
is
or
The temperature
waxes or other
crystallize
when an
malleable-iron,
U-
U-bend or
from the U-
or
at
which
paraffin
separate
oil is chilled
from
solution
[D]
cified conditions.
clover-seed sand
A
at a
[KI]
driller's
name
depth of 1,660
Pennsylvania.
club
feet in Butler
[NO]
man
pipelining.
[WIL,
p. 69]
cluck,
v.i.
To
found
County,
for a sandstone
flow.
The term
cluc\
is
onomato-
closed structure
See good structure. Also called dome.
[BA, p. 59]
is
accompanied by a sound which is suggestive of a hen's clucking and is possibly caused by the check valve. [Heard]
clutch
92
where
clutch, n.
[POR]
a shaft.
clutch dog
a position clutch.
[Heard]
ers
many
clutches
When
re-
made
C0 2
bottles.
cock, n.
[Heard]
erate.
stored or stilled.
clutcher, n.
the
is
bottles
c.o.
it
clutch fever
See brake fever. [Heard]
in a
body with
parts
corresponding to
cmtd.
Cemented; an abbreviation used
[LDO,
in
p. 428]
CO.
Cleaning out; an abbreviation used in
drilling reports.
which
coffee grinder
clutch stomper
drilling reports.
coffee, n.
[LDO,
p. 428]
rotary .[Heard]
cofferdam, n.
A double bulkhead provided in tank
steamers to isolate the oil cargo from the
engine and boiler space or from the holds
used for other cargo, and to prevent leakage into adjacent compartments. [D]
coffin hoist
pipelining.
ratchet to
lift
coal oil
1.
to
American
illuminating
refined
oils
oils
from
it.
[NO]
pades,
from
out
[Heard]
misnomer applied
troleum
coal.
lines
an A-frame.
oil.
[GI, p. 116]
coil
A
etc.
drag
tool to pick up pebbles, bits of iron,
from the bottom of a drill hole. [D]
coke, n.
A by-product obtained by treating dryrun tar at high temperatures with sulphuric acid; also called acid co\e. A soft
solid coke containing free carbon complex, heavy hydrocarbons, free sulphur,
and sulphuric acid; used for the same
purposes as coal coke. [KI]
coarse aggregate
refining. Aggregate in which the
largest particles have a diameter greater
than % inch. [KOT]
coker, n.
coat, n.
A
oil
refining.
unit that
makes
coke.
[Heard]
coke scrubber
collar
93
coking, n.
The
colasmix,
[KOT]
n.
[KOT]
cold, adj.
Idle.
When
a refinery unit
cold.
it is
is
[Heard; BA,
not in
p. 228]
cold bends
wash away
cold test
A name given a test made on lubricating oils to ascertain their power of withstanding low temperatures without solidifying or depositing paraffin. [NO]
collapse job
a well. 2.
coupling.
in a standard-type filter
The term
press.
affin
pressing, in
distillate.
its
of lubricating
[D]
grease
made without
[KOT]
heat-
The
2.
known
which is attached
and beading. [D]
flange,
as a collar
by
peening
collar-bound pipe
drill
col-
collar buster
fishing tool used to part a string of
casing above the point at which it is
frozen. [D]
collar
clamp
split
a leak.
temperature employed,
from an enveloping liquid petroleum
collar corker
to
medium. In
cold settling
The
collar;
cold-set grease
refining.
such as
threaded pipe
a Kimberley
leum medium
was
cold-laid mixture
cold-pressing or pressing, n.
The separation by filtration of a solid
petroleum product from a liquid petro-
1.
colas, n.
operation
cold steam
refining.
end
[POR]
One who
line.
on a pipe
[Heard]
collar
end
The end
of casing or tubing
(q. v.).
which
[Heard]
is
collar flange
94
combination
collar flange
back
to allow
to pipe
on
its
to be securely attached
it
collar-pecker
[Heard]
To
loosen
the collar by
collar pipe
To rack pipe in such a way that every
other row fits behind the collars of the
preceding row. Racking pipe in this way
saves a great deal of space. [Heard]
pounder
The
pipeliner
tongmen who
men work-
[Heard; F,
p. 94]
color, n.
1.
from
22,
small showing of
oil in
1948]
show
2.
refining.
the extent to
samples
DO, January
test made to
which a petroleum
reflect light.
[KOT]
colorimeter, A.S.T.M.
An
colorimeter, Saybolt
The
[KOT]
combination collar
A
v.).
combination
driller
who
cable-tool rig.
[LDO]
combination plant
A refinery where both compression
and absorption are used to recover the
combination rig
rig
comprising
cable-tool
both
complete
outfit
[D]
outfit.
combination socket
A fishing tool. [D]
come-along,
n.
who
and a
rotary rig
hammering. [Heard]
collar
outfit
drilling rig
stretcher;
named
so
which causes
action
it
the ground.
[Heard]
come down,
v.i.
off
in
stream
[Heard]
p. 490]
come unwelded
To lose control
of one's temper.
[Heard]
come
up, v.i.
refining. 1.
To
reach certain
tests;
ap-
combination gas
operation.
The
is
condensate
95
commence
An
or complete lease
oil
commission agent
marketing. The
local
[LDO,
p.
compound
oils
which
mal or vegetable oils
or adhesion. [POR]
Mineral
oils
who
mixed with
ani-
to increase viscosity
compr.
Compressor; an abbreviation used in
[LDO,
drilling reports.
p. 428]
compression ignition
[KOT]
compression plant
1. A plant where
representative
are
and
cool-
performs all
the duties in operating the bulk station.
ing.
[BA,
unit
[SHU,
with absorption
plant. [Heard]
of a refiner or jobber
p. 148]
p. 155]
2.
gas-concentration
used in a recycling
oil;
commission station
marketing.
station
owned by
multi-
with a proprietary
interest.
[SHU,
pump. The
p. 149]
pipe,
cylinder
by
valve.
and
is
opening
The pressure of the gases in the cylinder at the end of the compression stroke.
[KOT]
a single
fuel
is
car-
common
compression pressure
admitted to the
fuel nozzle
the
[KOT]
compression process
Comp.
[KOT]
[LDO,
compressor station
p. 428]
A pump
compass saw
A
ing.
type of
saw used
[DO, Novem-
concreter, n.
[NO]
complete, v.i.
To be finished. Said of a well:
It
com-
cementer. [Heard]
condemned,
adj.
COMPLETE,
condensate,
v.t.
1.
[HOO,
p. 42]
n.
liquid
produced by a refinery
a liquid.
condensate well
96
hydrocarbon which is
gaseous in the ground, but when produced condenses into fluid. A.P.I. Baume
gravity ranged from 60 upward. [Re[Heard]
4.
distillate.
condensate well
oil with an espehigh gas-oil ratio. See also conden4. [FO, p. 96]
cially
sate,
condensation,
The
n.
An
condenser, Liebig
[KOT]
dition.
constantly
con-
[KOT]
v.t.
requires.
[DO, October
conductor,
1.
14,
1947]
2.
wooden box
eight to
The
first
string of pipe,
conductor box
See conductor,
conductor-hole,
1.
[NO]
n.
shaft similar
to a
common
water
[NO]
cone,
n.
The
1947]
conformable, adj.
lie
upon one another in unbroken and parallel order, showing that no disturbance
occurred while their deposition was taking place. If one set of beds rests upon the
eroded or upturned edges of another,
showing a change of condition or a break
between the formations of the two sets
of rocks, the beds are said to be unconformable.
[POR]
by Senator
prohibiting
oil
violation
of state orders.
Some-
connate water
Water which was deposited simultaneously with solid sediments and
which has not since its deposition existed
surface water
as
ture.
or
atmospheric mois-
[D]
n.
Originally a
[NO]
composed
confirmation well
The second producer in a new field.
The first producer is often called the discovery or the discovery well. [DO, Oc-
connection,
n.
steel cones;
Connally Act
condenser, reflux
A condenser which
condition,
rotary drill
[KOT]
condenser,
A
ened
n.
or solid.
cone, rock-bit
connection foreman
A gang foreman on a pipe-line crew.
[WIL,
p. 69]
connection gang
The workers on a production crew
who connect the pipes and valves and
install most of the equipment. [BA, p.
32]
control head
97
connection order
ly yields a
The
connections,
n. pi.
or relatives in the
Influential friends
employ
of a
company. [Heard]
consistency, n.
The degree of solidity or fluidity of
bituminous materials. [KOT]
contact,
v.t.
product of given
volatility.
[POR]
continuous sample
A sample secured by catching drippings at regular intervals for a definite
period of time (for example, a day) and
mixing them. [Heard]
continuous system
A system in which a quantity of
oil
2.
continuous treating
Refining by a continuous operation in
which unrefined oil enters the apparatus
and after successive operations comes out
refined.
contactor, n.
contract, n.
1.
To run
The
for contacting
tact, 2.
equipment used
vessel or piece of
two
Any
p.
[KOT]
job, small or large.
[Heard; SA,
200]
[KI]
contractor's hole
known
as
continuous battery
number
still
of cylindrical
stills
lying
still
being
heated to a greater degree than the preceding one. Pressures are also proportionally raised. At each still the higher
volatile contents of the charge are drawn
off until only the lowest fraction is left.
[KI]
continuous blow-down
The
act of flowing
tinuous stream of
air.
The scum,
as a
might be de-
lowering
its
efficiency.
[KI]
which
slot
into
when an engine
tools.
[S]
control head
A fitting at the
oil or
gas which
may
controlled production
98
controlled production
Production of
oil
pressure control.
copper-dish test
[POR]
six floating
docks
it
which the
gasolines to
content.
show
the
[KOT]
name used by
corduroy,
To
v.t.
oil-field
equipment can be
oil field.
[WIL,
trans-
Not confined
to the
p. 110]
core, n.
1.
low
drilling bit.
made
times
hemp,
3.
oil
steel
[NO]
means of a
2.
The
To
hol-
central
original
cooking
gum
part of a rope,
n.
lead-lined vat in
it is
some-
it is
[POR]
of
v.i.
Gasoline. [Heard]
core barrel
[POR]
core-barrel bit
coon ass
coony,
cooker,
made on
for a rock
heavy
test
copper-dish
copper rock
Conundrums, n. pi.
The name given to
before
by the application of
oil-field
core bit
The
n.
a sample
See coon
ass.
core catcher
cope,
An
n.
asphaltic substance, so
Spanish explorers
coast in
who
named by
visited the
it
Texas
floating
refining.
gum
dish method.
[KOT]
fits
on
copper-dish
device that
core
drill
hollow
drill,
drill
and
calyx.
[POR]
Cottonseed
99
core extractor
1.
correlate,
push a core
it
is
brought
to the sur-
To
relationship of
core
lifter
An
left
series
[LDO]
correlation, n.
The
[Heard]
v.t.
two separated
areas pri-
strati-
correlation shooting
core
To make
oil
The grade
which has
a 36
Baume
compounded with
linseed oil. [POR]
gravity
oil,
and
core-pusher plunger
A plunger used to extract the core
barrel in
good condition.
diamond
drilling.
[POR]
coring time
corkscrew, v.t.
To drop a string of tubing in a well
so that it hits bottom and spirals into the
casing. [Heard]
n. 2. A string of pipe,
such as drill pipe, which has been twisted
by the application of too much weight.
[Reported]
common
oilfielder.
[Heard]
corn-meal pebble
A name used by drillers for a certain
type of formation which looks like corn
meal.
[NO]
corrected
Oil
oil
for each 10
February
17, 1949]
2.
who
cotton-picking, adj.
Used to describe anything considered
worthless; often heard in the expression
get your cotton-picking hands off.
[Heard]
corner post
The
[PE]
cotton picker
1. A clumsy
core shell
The
drillings or
is
soya bean, or
corn,
seismographic
coughing
100
made by
coup
hammer back
used as a lubricator.
coughing,
1.
on
The
n.
mud hog
is
counterbalance, n.
A weight attached to a moving part,
such as a crank, a pulley rim, a walking
beam, etc. to balance the weight and thus
reduce vibration and stresses. [POR]
counter
See
oil.
is
op-
[POR]
sill
[NO]
subsill.
countersink, n.
1. A tool used to chamfer the
country;
mouth
1852.
in
d'etat of
coupon,
noise
a rotary
ress.
this
wood
It
[NO]
n.
course, n.
courtesy card
1. A consumer's credit card issued by
oil companies owning filling stations. 2.
slang. A half-inch gas hose used to siphon gas from one car to another. A
common activity during the depression
of the nineteen thirties when the expression got your courtesy card with you?
was
general. [Heard]
courtzilite, n.
countersunk, adj.
1. Having a shape made by the use of
a countersin\. 2. Applied to a type of
plug which has an opening depressed to
receive a square wrench. [POR]
[A]
Cousin Ben
the
end of the
[Heard]
stirrups.
coupled pipe
pipelining. Pipe held together by some
means other than welding. There are
several varieties of threaded couplings:
the
common
and
pipe.
coupling, n.
1. A threaded sleeve used to connect
device used to join two
two pipes. 2.
rope ends without splicing. [POR]
coup-oil, n.
The
first
cover, n.
1. Shale or any other formation which
hundreds of feet thick and prevents oil
from seeping upward and disappearing,
unlike cap rock, which is, in its ordinary
sense, usually very hard and may consist of a limestone or shale bed only a few
is
feet
in
2.
Main
thickness. [D,
pipelining.
To
I,
42]
v.t.
trunk
[MU,
p. 133]
cramp
i oi
cowcatcher,
cracker, n.
n.
the front
Cow-Run Sand
name
Dunkard
driller's
stone, or
for
Oil
cow sucker
C.P.
Casing pressure, or cement through
perforations; an abbreviation used in
drilling reports.
crack,
[LDO,
[D]
cracking, n.
The production of low-boiling-point
hydrocarbons suitable for motor fuel in
Decomposing petroleum
state.
gasoline.
crack a valve
To open a valve a very
little.
[Heard]
distillate
distillate of a
cracking unit.
The
plant in
which cracked
distillate
which the
oils
is
[D]
The
[POR]
liquid
To
cracked
oils in a
[KOT]
cracking distillation
p. 428]
v.t.
of
is
oil
name given
to the
method by which
rerun. [KI]
cracked fuels
Fuels consisting predominantly of
cracked residuum which may or may
not be blended with crac\ed distillate.
[KOT]
distillation.
[POR]
cracked gases
Gases
down or
[KOT]
resulting
from
the
cracking of petroleum
breaking
oils.
cracking plant
[KOT]
cracked gasoline
Gasoline obtained by cracking heavier
oils.
[KOT]
cracked valve
1. A flow bean or choke. [Heard] 2. A
valve which has been opened or cracked.
[KI]
cracking stock
Material that
is
to
be crac\ed. [BA,
p. 228]
cramp,
Used
n.
in
102
crankcase breather
crankcase breather
A screened opening which admits
crest, n.
[KOT]
The
air
crankcase ventilation
Circulation of air through the crankcase to remove volatile diluents. [KOT]
which
of the cylinder
next
is
p. 118]
line
of various
cretaceous, adj.
Pertaining to the period between the
[POR]
Crapshooter Company
A Kansas poor-boy company.
that
[H,
crest line
[H,
crank end
The end
in
officials
It is said
company secured
the
period of larger reptile life; also, the system of strata deposited in the Cretaceous
[LDO]
period.
crevice oil
craps.
occurring
Oil
pany's
in
Florence, Colorado,
The heavy
(mud
is
used to lubri-
cate
in a borehole
is
such that
it
blows out
is
said to be crater-
ing.
by the
left
Heard;
3,
WIN,
p. 138; 4,
The
damaged through
slips
is
usual-
operation;
how-
barrel
creekology, n.
A system of operation developed by
Mike Benedum,
the
[D]
and location of
number
[NO]
crimp, n.
A deformation in the pipe wall due
to faulty bending. [OPL, p. 70]
critical
The
The
Heard]
crease cups
To crush the working barrel of a
pumping well so that oil does not pass
through easily, in which case the well
ever,
oil.
in
Sometimes
crevice-searcher, n.
as
shale,
oil field.
famous wildcatter.
The
cal
density
change
where a
physi-
The
pressure
pressure
necessary
to
raise
the
transition;
pressure
the
that
will
It
liquefy a gas at
its
critical
temperature.
is
formations.
man
with
Benedum
a nose for
known as
oil," and when
is
"a
it
is
24, 1948]
[D]
critical
Any
temperature
temperature marked by a transition; the temperature above which a substance can exist only in the gaseous state
regardless of the amount of pressure. [D]
crown
io3
crossover tee
crooked hole
A borehole which
[LDO]
crooked shale
field
difficult.
formation
is
The
line of dip.
The
must be held up
dip in the formation. When the formation is very crooked, only five or six
feet can be drilled during one tour if the
hole is kept straight. [Heard]
[D]
strata.
cropping out
The
fitting
made along
the surface.
is
lines similar to
cross-pein sledge
sledge in
crowbar connection
row
of wells
[BA,
p. 93]
croppings,
crowfoot bar
croquet balls
up and
line
practice of putting a
feet)
n. pi.
at
[NO]
end two
crowding the
crop out
To
sheets
1.
of
the
lease.
a boiler to stay
some
part.
[NO]
2.
cross, n.
An
unscientific theory
which assumes
if
structures intersect
much more
be produced. [DO,
p. 46]
oil
will
crossover, n.
small fitting such as a double
offset, or one with a U-shape with ends
turned out. It is made in small sizes only
and is used to pass the flow of one pipe
past another when the pipes are in the
same plane. [D] 2. A few feet of pipe
connecting a coil in a pipe still to a coil
in another still or fractionating tower.
[KI]
LA
The
first
so called because
it
The
tool
crown,
crowfoot elevator
1.
The
crown
is
now
obsolete.
[Heard]
n.
2.
The
block. [D]
crown block
The group
crown pulley
The pulley
crown sheets
1. The upper steel plates in an oil still.
[D] 2. The sheet of steel forming the
upper part of the firebox in the
[POR]
boiler.
crow
nest
104
crow's nest
The
and
its
The
who
workers
name
[POR]
cess.
stance left
been run
[KI]
crude naphtha
Unrefined petroleum naphtha. [D]
oil
it
crude petroleum
Raw petroleum
well. [D]
crude shale
Crude
as
it
oils
dis-
manu-
from
flows
the
crumb,
1.
To
who
teamsters
succeeded the
[WIL,
p. 42]
upon
the
work
or rights
The
charge often
n.
worker
gang, that
is,
Crusader,
n.
A wooden sailing ship of 643-ton register, one of the first sailing vessels to be
converted into oil carriers in 1885. The
Crusader was fitted with forty-seven independent tanks arranged in three su-
Arkansas,
with private
The
oil
line
72]
crusher
oil
crusher run
creation.
1.
An
crumb boss
1.
crummy,
River.
v.t.
infringe
a pipe-line ditch of
of others.
dirt
n.
finances in 1925
crude skinners
oil
equip-
oil
oil
Early
crumming,
oil-field
boatmen
name of a manufacturer of
ment. [Heard]
crude
crummies, n. pi.
Chain tongs; used when tubing is run.
The word is derived from Crumbey, the
crude, n.
1.
epithet
made
is
that he
commands
which may
infest the
refining.
The
total
unscreened prod-
[KOT]
crybaby
See jackbird. [Heard]
C's
cut ditch
io 5
butenes; C 5 's, pentanes, pentenes, and
pentadienes; C 6 's, hexanes, hexenes, and
hexadienes; C 7 's, heptanes, heptenes, and
C8
heptedienes;
tadienes,
bon content
octenes,
octanes,
's,
and xylene.
Named
oc-
[PE]
Csg.
Casing; an abbreviation used in
ing reports. [LDO, p. 428]
maze
by the
was said
[Reported]
cup grease
consisting of
with mineral
oil.
[POR]
To
take care
cut, n.
1.
leum products
traveling valve.
worn cups on
of
When
the oil
is
the
cut with
into fractions. 4.
v.i.
5.
To show
purities in oil. 6.
be done. [Heard]
p. 158; 4,
soil
cup viscosimeter
passed through
[KOT]
who
afford to maintain an
office.
cannot
[Reported]
Curbstone Exchange
An
informal
dealers,
and
meeting of producers,
speculators
at
Oil
much
as $500,000
exchanged hands in
p. 182]
down
12,
re-
fluid.
To
BB, p. 489;
Heard; 5, BB,
2,
3,
Heard, BA,
p. 490; 6,
DO,
1948]
cut a spoke
refining. To close a valve a fraction.
[Reported]
City,
POR;
To
mud
cut-back asphalt
curbstone broker
[1,
June
[POR]
cup job
The replacement
of,
to
[D]
cushion a line
Wilson
of handles manipulated
So
oil shale.
curves.
curly shale
Any folded or distorted
curve grease
driller.
[LAM,
1947, p. 13]
drill-
slinger
cultivator
make an
land, or
November,
cut-back products
Petroleum or tar residuals which have
been fluxed, each with its own or similar
distillates. [D]
cut-back tank
A tank in which naphtha and an
as-
cut ditch
title:
to track
1.
most
To
effective
manner.
driller
who
the
can
cut
down
derrick
is a superior worker
he can get
done despite obstacle or accident.
do any job quickly and well. 3.
cut ditch
the job
To
2.
To
drilling
pit.
[Heard]
06
cuttings, n. pi.
The rock
reducing to
[POR]
cycle, cracking
down derrick
To dismantle a wooden
cut
derrick.
[Heard]
tion
cut hole
To
drill.
[DO, October
15, 1947]
cyclone,
cut point
The point during distillation at which
the fraction to be cut reaches the right
degree of temperature and elevation in
the still or tower for the proper fraction
to be run off at the given level. [KI]
cut rock
made
cutter, n.
[DO,
1948]
cutting lubricant
cutting
Oil
April, 1946, p. 1]
cylinder oils
Oils used to lubricate the cylinders
and valves of steam engines. [POR]
An
still
and cool
steel-
[KOT]
Also
[NO]
fraction of petroleum
which
is
re-
motor
oils
and other
lubricants.
[BA,
p. 240]
[POR]
cymogene, n.
At one time the lightest product obtained from petroleum; it was used as a
local anesthetic
and
is
now employed
as
oil
which
still.
still.
cylinder stock
January
n.
The
cylinder
drill in a
cuts, n. pi.
these opera-
tions.
cut oil
A mixture of water and oil that can
be separated only by chemicals. [POR]
To
from a drilled
removed in the process of
form with machine tools.
particles bailed
well; metal
with
Czar
The
v.).
[Heard]
DCLSP
107
D
dance hall
d.a.
An
abbreviation
commonly used
for
d.a.
and
a.t.
At
first,
the
name
Dad's struck
[WIN,
of
semitrailer
D.
&
it
is
pulled.
p. 138]
A.
ile
dart, n.
prong that
bailer.
by
When
and
dump
datum plane
[AS, p. 77]
n.
of defioculated
finely-divided,
air-floated
and,
graphite used
more
lubrication
for
particularly,
oils
or water.
[POR]
dampproofing,
An
levels to
pushed up
valve.
[BA,
p. 108]
bailer
n.
welder.
[WIN,
p. 138]
daylight, n.
n.
low ground
in the
dauber,
the initial letters
for
is
dart
drill-
ers
dag,
valve,
projects
dart bailer
bed
lantern
dry-cell
large, flat
unit
An
Dad
The
prevent seepage of
dampproofing asphalt
See dampproofiing. [KI]
D.B. crew
See doodlebug crew. [Heard]
DCLSP
Digging cellar and slush pits; an abbreviation used in drilling reports. [Reported]
D.D.
D.D.
deeper; an ab-
(or drilled)
Drilling
[LDO,
p. 428]
which a
position in
single-cylin-
When
valves are
it is
on
dead end
The
tem of
closed
end of
[POR]
made fast
pipes.
drilling line
a pipe or a sys-
2.
to
The end
some
of a
stationary
dead end
will
[OGJ, November
at
that
6, 1947, p.
108]
point.
in.
worker
[ME,
who
transports nitroglycer-
p. 763]
dead lantern
A Dad
rived
sumably used only by comparative newcomers to the oil field; the association of
the lantern with "Dad" has been lost.
[Heard]
dead
dead
line
move, usually
not in use.
4.
The
3.
pipe
salt-water line
NO]
dead
name
Such
When
this
stands at
in
rest
the
it
gas
the
tanks,
bubbles which constantly break the surface give the oil an animate appearance.
Such
oil is
known
as live
oil.
When
oil
deadwood, n.
Roof or coil supports, swing pipes,
any permanent material in a tank
man
etc.;
that
dealer, n.
retailer, or
one
who
car-
ries a
ucts to sell to
[SHU,
consumers at
retail price.
p. 147]
dealer clinic
marketing.
An
de-asphalt,
educational
[SHU,
meeting
p. 168]
v.t.
To remove
asphalt
from an
asphalt-
Any
2).
oil
1.
marketing.
line
1,
p. 486]
lantern
from
(q. v.
dead well
dead-in-a-hurry, n.
v.).
dead-man hole
1.
The
der
4.
[Heard]
dead center
set
ing mast.
[Heard]
guy wire.
which asphalt
is
removed from
asphalt-
debloom,
To
v.t.
bleach
oils
degassing tower
109
sunlight in shallow pans. The ultraviolet
rays of the sun bleach out the coloring
matter permanently, as is not always the
case
when
oils are
to a question
about
chemically bleached.
deep
[POR; NO]
deblooming agents
and yellow
Mononitronaphthalene
sometimes added to mineral
oils to mask the fluorescence. [D]
coal-tar dyes
oil
In the early days of the petroleum industry, oil found at a depth of 300 feet
or more. Now a well of such a depth is
called a shallow well. [NO]
deep pay
debutanizer, n.
pressure-distillate stabilizer
[NB,
is
rapid,
decline curve, in
reached.
which
duction.
[POR]
decline curve
pump
A pump
Many pumps
designed for oil wells are small in diameter so that they can be lowered into
the well casing. They contain valves and
working parts in series, all within a single
cylinder. The pump is at the lower end
of a string of tubing and is operated
through the tubing. by a string of sucker
rods. [D]
deferred production
Oil production held back in the producing formation by the pressure control.
decolorize,
[LDO]
deep-well
is
sand. [PO]
The decrease
well. The first
oil
deep sands
p. 351]
decline, n.
duction
Deep, productive
used to
[POR]
v.t.
To remove
dissolved impurities
leum products by
from
deflegmation (dephlegmation),
filtering,
absorption,
n.
liquid petro-
now
deep as hell
deflegmator (dephlegmator), n.
See deflegmation tower and dephleg-
driller gives
answer
typical
to a question
about
adds,
Why, we
"You
can't
believe
day!" [Heard]
deepen,
To
[DO, March
certain
type
of
it is
applied to
fractionating-tower
frac-
See dephlegmating
tower and dephlegmator. [KI]
tionating
process.
mator.
defoamer,
n.
oil
from
degassing tower
v.t.
drill.
him!
14,
1949]
oils
are
no
dehydration
dehydration, n.
The removal of water and sedimentary
matter from oil by chemical treatment.
deodorized naphtha
Naphtha from which the odor has
been removed; an excellent cleaning
[LDO]
fluid.
dehydrator,
n.
An
apparatus in which water is removed from oil. This may be accomplished by (1) settling and gravitational
centrifugal separation,
separation, (2)
(3) boiling off the water, or (4) the use
of electric currents of high voltage which
down
break
the emulsion
and permit
[KI]
deparamn, v.t.
To remove paraffin from
lines.
wells
and
[Heard]
dephlegmating tower
Another name for the bubble tower
(q. v.).
umn
col-
p. 233]
dehydrocyclization, n.
The over-all conversion of heptane to
toluene, involving first the production of
heptenes and eventually the conversion of
methylcyclohexane to toluene. [KE]
dehydrogenation,
n.
refining process
lower
defines ethylene,
butenes. [KE]
propylene,
and the
dephlegmator, n.
1. A column or tower with baffles, used
in a petroleum refinery to arrest and retain the oil spray which is carried over
mechanically by the vapor during distillation. The heavy oil that would otherwise be carried over in the form of a
spray
would contaminate
lates. 2.
various hydrocarbon
delimit,
To
v.t.
fix a
a field
is
The boundary
of
where dry
dry holes have
fixed in direction
When
heavier
fractions
column
is
turns
an emulsion.
compon-
[KOT]
the
corre-
a trap
depletion, n.
all
138]
The
those
demulsibility, n.
ents of
(except
1.
them
The
to
oil,
dense carbon
Powdered carbon. [Heard]
Since there
dense-graded aggregate
Graded mineral aggregate which contains enough small particles to reduce to
a minimum the void spaces in the com-
is
no recuperation
or rehabili-
such
wasting assets from the
moment production begins. 2. The writing off of assets because of depreciation
tation of
oil,
reserves
are
or exhaustion.
[POR]
[KOT]
pacted aggregates.
derrick, n.
densimeter,
n.
cific
stance.
[D]
cement man
an
is
to
fill
cavities.
[Heard]
oil
dentist, n.
The
An
beam. [NO]
DERRICK,
See
n.
bald-headed
derrick,
California
Ill
derrick, Drake's yoke, gin pole, lay-down
job, oil-well derrick,
pulling machine,
production derrick,
pumping
derrick.
derrick apples
Small parts of the derrick that sometimes
ers,
fall to
and even
and falls
mud
dries
(which shrinks as
[Heard]
brew
devil's
desiccator, n.
it
to the floor).
destructive alkylation
derrick floor
The
bons.
[KE]
repair
level
derrickman, n.
The worker in a drilling or producing crew who racks pipe in the derrick.
Also called derrick mon\ey, derrick
skjnner, mon\ey, sky hooker, and tower
bird. [Heard; BA, p. 39]
DERRICKMAN,
See
attic
n.
sky-
destructive distillation
derrick monkey
See derrickman. [BB,
DERRICK PLATFORM
crow's nest, double board,
duck's nest, eighty-board, foble board,
forble board, fourble board, kelly board,
monkey board, outside monkey board,
rod basket, rod board, run-around, safety
board, safety platform, stabbing board,
thribble board, triple board, tubing board,
See
water
attic,
detonation, n.
sill
in a
motor produced by
motor fuels. [}]
floor.
[NO]
derrick wheel
headache post or
well and
is
is
development, n.
Work which
actively
looks
attached to the
to a cable-tool drilling
[POR]
[POR]
development well
A well which helps
to determine the
an oil pool. [DO, January 29,
1948] Also called pool well and inside
limits of
well. [Reported]
desalter, n.
unit used to
oil.
[Heard]
toward
crude
in-
sill
derrick skinner
derrickman. [Heard]
knock
ferior grades of
[BB,
Detroit vibrator
table.
derrick
tattletale.
p. 487]
p. 489]
remove the
salt
from
devil's
brew
Nitroglycerin.
[HOU,
p. 104]
Devil's
Den
Devil's
Den
112
diamond black
trick
field
in
California.
The
McKitoil
pro-
combustion
perfect
escaping from
oil
[POR]
diamond core,
v.t.
devil's
To extract a
mond drill (q.
hand
from some
[NO]
gases
(1884).
means of a
[DO, October
core by
v.).
dia28,
1947]
devil's pitchfork
prongs.
devil's
spoon
pipeliner's shovel.
[Heard]
devil's tar
Wayne
[POR]
Devonian,
The
oils
wax
[KOT]
point
The temperature
at
which moist
air
[POR]
diamond point
hard
steel
gouge
from
rivets
[KI]
diarrhea, verbal
Indecent
stories.
[ST, p. 102]
(q. v.).
[LDO,
ton, or the
an abrasive.
as
[KOT]
dick grip
The rod clamp which holds the stuffing box while it is being packed. Also
called grip, polish rod clamp, and \elly
driver. [Heard]
die, v.i.
To
for one
oil
may
(q.
v.);
an abbreviation
chemists.
may
be ex-
lifts
the
p. 427]
diatomaceous earth
d.f.
[KI]
system
used
dewaxed lubricating
Diesel fuel
drilling
A variant of log
ming. [KI]
sure.
diamond
diary, n.
[LDO]
dewax, v.t.
To remove as much wax as possible
from lubricating oils to prevent gum-
dew
n.
era,
riod.
drill
construction crews
diamond
[POR]
1947]
directional
JI 3
[KI]
test
die nipple
tool
employed in recovering
drill
[POR]
Diesel engine
for
gums
show
[KOT]
or nitrocellulose.
dimer, n.
A product formed by the union of two
identical define molecules in the polymerization refining process. [KE]
Dinkey,
n.
owned
now
museum
piece
in
the
modern
plant. [KI]
The
angle of an anticline.
dip-arrow
[POR]
map
Diesel fuel
engines.
solvents to
dip, n.
oil
gines. [J]
oil
motor oils
The thinning of crankcase
dilution ratio
dielectric strength
ng
dilution of
dielectric, n.
An
drilli
[POR]
Diesel oil
A heavy fuel
work
diplomatic overhead
1. A bribe. 2. Contraband petroleum.
oil
[W]
[P, p. 178]
dipper, n.
dig, v.t.
To
drill.
[Heard;
DO, October
15,
dipping rod
1947]
dig a pit
To make
dirt
pit.
to dip into
digester, n.
dip pipe
driller; still
fields.
dip shooting
determining the
inclination
of
structure. [PE]
directional drilling
The
the
straight
course
first
taken
from
(1)
by
whip stocking
the same purpose. Some Gulf Coast saltdome oil traps have been reached in this
way more easily than by straight-course
directional hole
drilling,
114
been tapped by
directional hole
borehole
produced by directional
[BA, p. 133]
Dirty Gertie
A famous soiled dove
(q. v.)
named
who
pretended to be a schoolgirl
and stood on street corners with books
under her arm until she made a pickup.
This was considered a "dirty trick"
hence the name. [Heard; ST, p. 57]
Gertie
DISCHARGE, v.t.
See bump, give one his 403, give one
his time, go down the creek with the oil,
put the skids on one, run off.
n. suit-
crude
Fuel
discovery, n.
The
oils
which are
directly or indirectly
distillates
derived
from crude
petro-
leum. [POR]
distillate
1.
wax
The heavy
which
distillate
of the crude
part of the
The neutral
oil distillate before the separation of the
paraffin; the basis of paraffin wax. Immediately follows the gas oil. [POR]
paraffin
case parade.
since
distillates
distillation of
dirty, adj.
residual fuel
distillate, n.
carries
wax
the
greater
in solution. 2.
posit,
fever,
breakbone
fever,
on the
dish-bottom tank
A tank with a concave or saucer-like
bottom, which makes easier the draining off of
fluid, either
water or petrole-
um. [KI]
dished heads
See
bumped
heads.
[POR]
disposal well
The
process
of separating a volatile
fluid or fluids
evaporation
distillation,
discovery well
See discovery. [Heard]
DISEASE, n.
See brake
distillation, n.
azeotropic
[KE]
distillation,
A
still
batch
u5
down completely in
new charge of batch is
run
a
the
still
taken
before
in.
This
of
since
after
column
used.
is
distillation,
[POR]
POR]
dixie grip
do,
distillation.
[POR]
v.t.
To
produce
oil:
1947]
distillation, destructive
See destructive
distillation.
[POR]
See fractional
distillation.
[POR]
vacuum
vacuum distillation. [KOT]
distillation,
apparatus (W.B.D.)
An apparatus used to determine quantitatively by distillation the actual amount
of moisture in a petroleum product.
distillation
[KOT]
made
are
curves of gasoline
Curves made by plotting the percentage distilled versus the temperature, information obtained from the A.S.T.M.
distillation.
[KOT]
A flask in which
oil is distilled.
[KOT]
distillation loss
[POR]
distilling
tube
sales
docosane, n.
Hydrocarbons (C 2 2H 46 ) obtained from
Pennsylvania petroleum. [POR]
doctor,
v.t.
To rework
1.
[NO]
2.
refining.
To
in testing or
sively
[KI]
doctor solution
A solution used to free gasoline, kerosene, and other petroleum products of
sulphur. It is usually an alkaline solution
of sodium plumbite and free sulphur.
[D]
doctor test
qualitative
desirable sulphur
um
distillates.
[D]
doctor treatment
The treatment
ucts
ditcher, n.
which
purchaser fur-
line.
distillation flask
at
crease production.
distillation
residue.
dock price
marketing. The price
distillation, fractional
See
old but still extant superstition, for discovering mineral veins, springs of water,
and even oil. Replaced by scientific equipment the seismograph and the torsion
balance. Often called a doodlebug. [D;
continuous
doctrine
divining rod
A rod (usually made of witch hazel
and forked in shape) used, according to
right entitles
dodecahydro
116
dodecahydro, naphthalene
Naphthalene obtained from petroleum
which has a specific gravity of 0.802 and
a boiling point 153 to 158 C.
[POR]
dodecatylene,
from
of the
grips
place.
[POR]
Dog Bone
and holds
certain tools in
nickname
it is released by a spring
goes out of the pipe into the
open hole where it picks up the fish at
one side of the hole. Used particularly
for catching fish that lean to one side.
Western Com-
the
dog catcher
One who
canine (q.
the
W. [Heard]
[Heard]
dog legs
To
is
v.).
guilty
of
seducing the
A
which turns the
shaft with a
one
slots
The
Texas
(q. v.)
field,
[P, p. 176]
head
wooden block through which
the
Any
and used
n.
mule skinners
based on
the number of driving reins they could
manage.
series of three or
2.
[Reported]
dog clutch
er.
and move
dog wrench
doll
Any
lift
[Heard]
doghouse,
in wire cable
dollar a line
dog chaser
clutch
it
dog pipe
for
great distance: a
1.
by leaving part
man. [Heard]
when
legs
Outfit
pany; derived from the part of the company trade-mark that can be seen at a
shift
dog-leg jar
steel or iron
which
an easy
work
so called because
n.
attachment used by
a machinist in lathe work. 2. A ringshaped piece with a setscrew on one side
which grips the bar of metal and a tail
on the other side which is used to give a
rotating motion corresponding to that of
the face plate. 3. A tempered steel piece
it
To make
leum. [POR]
office. 5.
Oil-field gossip. 2.
in a well log.
dog
n.
1.
pumper's
[D]
field activities. 3.
n.
obtained
Paraffin
(C 12 2 6)
Pennsylvania petroleums. [POR]
dog,
v.).
doghouse dope
1.
dodecane,
inactive workers. 4.
working
clothes. 3.
'
double core-barrel
ii 7
wrench
dolly
dope,
An
on pipe
n.
often in-
it
Also called
closed structure. See good structure. [D]
the presence of
dicates
oil.
domestic kerosene
A very high grade of kerosene made
for the domestic market.
donkey,
[KOT]
doodle, v.t
~%f
and rocks from a
The dirt is also crumbed
pipe-line ditch.
doodlebug,
n.
doodlebug crew
compound used by
pipe
fitters.
[Re-
ported]
dope pot
in
ing a line
is
heated. [Heard]
the
ignition
(prevent
quality
[KOT]
Diesel knock).
to
number
fluid
dormant spray
spray
refined
oil
trees are
oil.
not in flower or
leaf.
the
[KOT]
worn mass
r/
[Heard]
n.
dornick, n.
for
dopebook,
and
donkey pump
To
a protective coating.
n.
lines.
An
dope bucket
1.
n.
dome,
drill
[Heard]
doodlebugger, n.
1. A worker who runs a doodlebug
(q. v., 3). Also called a doodlebug.
[Heard] 2. A geophysicist, so called be-
do something
motto for
if
you do
oil-field
it
wrong
workers.
[WIN,
p. 139]
double, n.
[BA,
p.
127]
double board
A working platform
man;
it
so called because
is
as
high in
double deck
118
double deck
rotary so
The
floor of a derrick.
[Heard]
down time
period
when
there
is
no work
in
progress. [Heard]
made
dowser,
[WIN,
a divining rod in
syn. Diviner, oil
smeller, oil wizard. 2.
divining rod
used in prospecting for oil. [AS, p. 178]
carpenter-built rig in
or
ners
legs
top to bottom.
are
[NO]
backfill
its
cold
[Heard]
corner
from one
tray to the
one
beneath. [Heard]
down-flow spout
See
down
The
pipe. [KI]
pipe
outlet portion of the
still
When
on the
the oil in
on the
p. 83]
dozer, n.
A shortened form of bulldozer (q.
v.).
D.P.
An abbreviation for
An abbreviation of
1.
v.). 2.
v.).
drivepipe (q.
drill pipe (q.
[Reported]
dragon's blood
bright red
titration
in testing benzol.
drag up
To
quit a job
[WIN,
DRAIN,
and ask
p. 138]
v.t.
off.
n. leak-off.
Drake,
down
[BA,
down
dowsing rod
tests
n.
1. A tubing ring which fits in the casing head to support the string of pipe.
2. refining. The baffle in the heat exchanger; so called because of its resemblance to a doughnut. [Heard]
down
oil.
do up the
uses
for
[Heard]
doughnut,
prospecting
double rig
n.
One who
1.
p. 139]
vv
downstairs, n.
n.
Company.
1942, p. 1804]
See
Goslin
Drake's yoke
The first oil derrick in America, designed and built by E. L. Drake at Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1858. The derrick
was twelve feet square at the base with
four timbers thirty feet long, gradually
narrowing to three feet square at the
top. It was assembled on the ground and
then raised to the proper position. So
named by the men who helped Drake
raise
it.
[GI, p. 55]
vV^
%^
ii9
drape around
To
draper, n.
A derogatory term for a
drape around. [Heard]
flatterer.
See
v.t.
To
1.
ship, as to market. 2.
To
drill a
draw-down potential
The production potential determined
level of the liquid
in
To draw
draw out
To
solete).
dress,
[NO]
dresser, n.
clipped
Also called
toolie.
[KI]
[POR]
dribble blending
[NO]
2.
metallic
DRILL, v.t.
See bean a well down, bounce, bung
down, burn a bit, by pass, cut, cut ditch,
cut hole, cut rock, deepen, dig, draw a
blank, drill ahead, drill around, drill by,
drill in, drill out, drill up, fan out screw,
farm out, get, get a bone, jar, jig, kick
make
make
a well,
hole,
run a screw,
plow
set tools
oil,
on
[Heard]
ahead
drill
To
June
10, 1947]
drill
around
See
drill
DRILL BIT
See adamantine
bore
bit,
calyx
bit,
2.
set of tools.
drillable, adj.
form
Dresser coupling
A sleeve and packing made to join
plain-end pipe; invented by a Mr. Dresser.
drill-
tool
hole,
v.t.
To
1.
by the
drill, n.
[DER]
draw
An
)(
draw a well
To
Drig. or Drg.
Drilling; an abbreviation used in
ing reports. [LDO, p. 428]
[DER]
draw a blank
drifter, n.
with-
To
3.
long tapered punch used in
tank-building to drive into rivet holes
and bring them in line. 4.
tool of
peculiar construction used in oil wells
for straightening bulged casing. [POR]
v.t. 5. To make a crooked hole in drilling. [BB, p. 490]
air.
draw,
drill bit
drill,
core
drill,
basket
bit,
bit,
drill,
bit,
expansion bit,
four-wing pattern
eccentric
bit,
Mother Hubbard
drill,
bit,
physical jetting
cone, core-barrel
diamond
bit,
drill
by
rock
bit,
drill,
shot
120
rock
rotary
drill,
sidehill,
drill,
drill
rotary
bit,
spudding bit,
3-way bit.
drill past
drill collar
The
fitting
penetrated.
material secured
biscuit-like
from
form by
down
See run
drill;
a record of
sample of
2.
driller's seat
The
driller's stool
two- or three-step
[POR]
drill
A
bit
out
of
is
hole.
set,
Every time a
levels for
extractor
drill-
hole
well in the boring stage. [PE]
drill in
wooden platform
working
from
drill
to a point
string of casing
affords three
a well in broken,
in cable-tool drilling.
drill
log
See log, 1. [PE]
which
yellow hammer.
ter,
driller's
bit to
core
solid,
[Heard]
er,
by
To
an obstruction in the
borehole. 2. slang. To outdo someone:
one drills by another when he gets the
other's job, when he wins in a card game,
when he steals another's girl, or when
he succeeds in any activity at the expense
of another, syn. Drill around. [Heard]
1.
1.
2.
To
See
sand.
[LDO]
drill.
[S]
drilled
drilling, n.
dry
soft
and
against overheating.
drilled to the third
is
to
which
[LDO,
the
drill
p. 412]
rock
Stared out of countenance: "A stranger calTTiardTy turn a corner without being drilled to the third rock by a pair
of keen, inquisitive eyes, followed by
the inquiry: 'Do you wish some firstrate oil territory sir?'" [T, p. 27]
driller, n.
DRILLER, n.
See auger master, boll weevil, borer,
brake rider, brake weight, clutcher, clutch
stomper, combination driller, digger,
gypsy driller, hard-rock driller, hogger,
horse thief, jarhead, Johnson-bar idiot,
lever man, mail-poucher, ol' roundy,
drilling control
1.
The
feed in drilling.
[POR]
DRILLING
CREW
man,
121
slip puller,
man,
drill
stem
[BA,
acres.
p. 150]
well shooter.
DRILLING TOOL
drilling engine
An
[POR]
drilling in
The
through the
an oil
of drilling
process
reservoir of
oil
[POR]
pool.
drilling-in unit
called a
drilling-in
November
rig.
[Heard;
mud
tool,
drill jar
See drilling
DO,
12, 1947]
To
machine
[POR]
to
have drilled
DRILLING METHOD
See American system
of drilling, cable
Can-
adian pole system, clean drilling, diamond drilling, dry-land operation, Fabian system, Fauvelle, free fall, Galician,
inclination drilling, jigging
kicker-board
down, jump
method, kicking
drilling,
drilling,
motion
To
refers
only
to
of
cable
effective
[LDO]
drilling pattern
The proportion
number of acres;
[PO]
drill
as
many
pipe
drill
"^ Y
for example,
one well
drill-
drill-pipe protector
An
steel
[LDO]
pipe.
drill
rod
sleeve
device used with reversible ratchet
drills.
drill
modern
drill
off.
tools;
accumu-
out
The
drilling motion.
cuttings have
drilling
when
1.
See log.
drilling journal
drilling,
mud
tool drilling,
drill
the
fill
tings; to
drilling
jar.
drill off
drilling jar
knuckle
jar, kelly,
[NO]
stem
cable-tool
drilling.
steel shaft to
which the
1.
The heavy
bit jars
to
and con-
complete
122
drill-stem test
an auger
rotary drilling. The string of
heavy tubing which extends to and rostring of tools; sometimes called
stem.
2.
[POR]
A test to determine
of a
new
producer by attaching a
device used in
making
a drill-stem
up
drill out, 1.
1.
name given
to
an apparatus
to
natural-gas
wells
to
at-
extract
by a
cross tube.
low
places.
[NO]
[BA,
p. 157]
dripper, n.
which
is
too dark
is
filter
set
line recovered
from gas
lines.
[POR]
drive clamps
Heavy clamps that reinforce and protect the drill stem when used for driving pipe; the pipe is fitted with a hollow
drivehead to receive the blows. [LDO]
I,
283]
drivehead, n.
See casing head. [NO]
driven well
drivepipe, n.
1.
pipe which
is
driven or forced
[NO]
drivepipe ring
(q. v.).
X\
and
next
while
drip gasoline
The
Filter drainage
drive-down socket
A blind box (q. v.). [D,
[Heard]
drip, n.
tached
which
See
[Heard]
the plug
drill
A
gas
drivecap, n.
1.
test
drip pot
drips, n. pi.
drill-stem tester
drip pocket
drill-
gas, oil,
[AS, p. 112]
drill-stem test
stem
The Dripping
dry gas
123
drowned,
drive shoe
1.
fitted
to the top of a
pipe, as in
Drk. or Dk.
an abbreviation used in
Derrick^;
[LDO,
ing reports.
drop, v.
1. See follow down. [Heard]
two pipes
the threads of
a connection
is
drill-
p. 428]
2.
perfectly.
To fit
When
when
it settles correctly in
the collar
threads of the lower so that the two can
adj.
[NO]
To
out.
1.
To
lower the
float so that
it
to facilitate unloading. 2.
connect a
float
from a
truck.
forms a
To
dis-
[Heard]
drum,
1.
2.
a tank.
n.
[Heard]
transportation of oil. 2.
barrel-shaped
winding cylinder with flanges on which
a drill or hoisting line
drop a pole
To gauge a
well.
[Heard]
drop-leg
[Heard]
drop point
The
from
drop
a standard support
test
refining.
deadliness
of
is
recorded. [F,
let
fall.
[Heard]
is
wound. [A]
drumming shed
dry-cleaning fluid
A light hydrocarbon product which
usually has a comparatively narrow boiling range; used in dry-cleaning establishments.
dry
[KOT]
distillation
[POR]
dry gas
1.
There
amount
Gas from which
liquid
preciable
To
drop a line
To gauge
pot.
the
drown out
1. To flood. Water drowns out a well
when it replaces oil that has been removed from the reservoir. This occurs
when the oil under pressure is surrounded
drop a
ramp
oil in
L^
drowning, n.
The mixing of oil and water in the
manufacture of nitroglycerin. [NO]
of gasoline.
the
is no ap[POR] 2.
fractions
p. 155]
dry hole
124
dry pipe
dry hole
- 4_
An
dry point
[HOO,
ly
p. 33]
money
a test well
made
is
to
an operator
is
producer, he receives nothing. For example, an operator who has only $10,000 might make arrangements to drill a
wildcat costing $50,000. If he can find
jour operators with acreage in the area
to be tested by such a wildcat, he prob-
would be
ably
successful in persuading
[Heard]
a; a producer
The temperature
aphorism.
contribution
when
fore breaking
it
oil-field
dry-hole
title,
1. A pipe which
conveys dry steam
from the dome to the steampipe in a
locomotive. [POR] 2. drilling. A drill
pipe which has been emptied of mud by
working it up and down in the hole be-
dry run
Drilling activities
quire
float
barges
run or operation.
from an earlier
without the use of steam.
[KI]
dry sand
A
which do not
or
other
re-
offshore
16,
1947]
h" ?f
non-productive
sandstone
in
oil
[D]
[POR]
oil
dry string
Said of pipe from which the mud has
it is pulled from
dry watch
been shut
hand). [Heard]
dry watchman
\ V^
which
p.
dry well
drill-
ing. [Reported]
1.
trial
dry spell
mud
oline.
run; a
dry-run tar
fields.
dry
test
[Heard]
dry-land operation
\y
at
liquid is distilled or given off. The temperature of the heaviest fraction, commonly called the end point. [POR]
dry-hole plug
See plug. [NO]
at
becomes dry or
is
shut
138]
down
or stacked.
rig
[WIN,
dust-laying oils
125
D.S.
ductility, n.
Drill stem;
an abbreviation used in
drilling reports.
D-shovel,
n.
[LDO,
p. 428]
[POR]
short-handled
shaped end. [NO]
shovel
with
a D-
dud,
n.
well which
dual completion
from two
same time, using tubing for one zone and annulus
for the second. Such a well is said to be
dually completed. [DO, November 14,
well drilled to produce
1947]
dummy,
n.
dump,
n.
dump
See
dump
dual system
To
Dubbs
two zones
Dubbs process
bailer
bailer used
to
the well.
[POR]
The
where
dump
A
ber
gas
6,
dump
[KOT]
pipe
[KOT]
Duck,
lines.
dump
A
into
duck's nest
chamber
and
ignites.
[Heard]
763]
duck walk
shower rack. [Heard] L(J
3.
The
[ME,
p.
tank
very early
which
oil
name
barrels
[SM,
target in
hits
[NO]
dump samples
tested or
n.
oil
Dubbs residuum
still.
to California-type crude.
oil
fuel
1.
dump
rig
time. [PE]
tion of
down
shut
dump box
dual-zone well
same
[Heard]
[Heard]
tools
bailer.
still
refining.
at the
produce. [K, p.
in reports. [Reported]
fails to
58]
D.S.T.
p. 60]
duster, n.
An
unproductive gas or
oil well.
[NO]
dust-laying oils
Crude oils, heavy asphalt oils, tars, solutions of petroleum asphalt in gas oils,
dutchman
126
Dutch oven
The forechamber (an
dutchman,
n.
vides
worthless. [Heard]
487]
1.
filler
flanges
into
an
incandescent
shut
off.
auxiliary
surface
when
it
com-
for re-
has been
dynamite,
n.
A solidified
eccentrics
p.
E
eagle screams, the
The pay checks are in. Also the eagle
flies and the ghost walks. [Heard]
One who
in
an
is
from the
nautical expression.
name
n.
[BOW,
The
re-
See spot
To
board
from pool
with.
Oilfielders
moving
have
these proprietors
wherever there
is
one up
To worry
cannot handle
it.
[WIN,
if
he
p. 138]
tilt
inclination
of
large
blocks
of
paraffin.
To
[NO]
A modified
floor
by sprinkling
p. 138]
farther
the other.
echometer,
n.
An
[WIN,
eccentric bit
Gasoline
eat out
limited to the oil field).
wax
Crude
moments
that do not
time and lazy
eat after
eat
earth
during operations
his attention.
p. 21]
earth oil
Petroleum. [POR]
earth
box where a
eaten after the same restaurant or boardinghouse proprietors for years, since
[Heard]
earthbalm,
or
take a few
bench. [KI]
effort
transferred
rest
need
handle. [PE]
ear banger
finery
of
ear, n.
easy bench
oil
p. 158]
from
elemental sulfur
127
Edeleanu extract
egg,
from un-
[KOT]
Edeleanu process
The
refining of oil by
means
of the
dioxide.
The
raffinate
struction
from
oil
[KOT]
1^
edge water
Water that ELlds the
A hydrocarbon (C 2 oH 42 ) which is a
petroleum of the paraffin series. [POR]
eighty-board, n.
A platform in the derrick at the height
of four joints of pipe. A jorble board
(q. v.). [BB, p. 486]
'
ejector, n.
An
n.
fitting that
adjacent pipes.
The
angle
is
always 90
electric log
educated gasser
An engineer. [Heard]
Any electric device used in determining the nature of the formation; always
called the log. [DO, November 11, 1947]
educated stick
slide rule.
[Heard]
logging
electric
education pipe
The exhaust
identification
of
[D]
education tube
See education pipe. [PE]
zones,
formations
by
the
switch
oil
elec-
oil
The
oil
geological
medium
An
some
the
electric
effective pressure
1.
air
The
oil
is
)r~
pump
air
elbow,
edge well
particularly
in
Cali-
several
which
[KOT]
Edeleanu
n.
1.
creates effect.
[POR]
electrolog, n.
the elec-
elemental sulfur
refining. Sulfur in the original ele-
[KOT]
hs
128
elephant
elephant, n.
pumping
which stands directly over the well and does not require a
walking beam. Also called blue elephant.
[BB,
p.
unit
488]
dency of
[D]
oils
enamel,
elephant ears
The
Pennsylvania; so
n.
Elephant Well
named
because
it
pro-
end, n.
[GI, p. 69]
elevator bail
endless belt
elevators, n. pi.
emulsification test
test made to obtain information in
the laboratory about the emulsifying ten-
ing,
which raises and lowers tubcasing, and drive pipe from and
belt,
the ends of
[POR]
device
endless rope
See endless
endo,
emanations, n. pi.
Gaseous discharges. [D]
cifically
labor, spe-
and shovels are so called by the machinists around the Mid-Continent Refinery, in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, because,
they say, only one who is ignorant would
continue to use such equipment. See
canal wrench, idiot stick, and ignorant
spoon. [KI]
emery sand
A name used by
p.
238]
hard
ers live;
p. 138]
camp
Privately
To
is
slide
to lay
it
end point
indicated
thermometer during
standard laboratory distillation. [D]
endrop,
distillation
n.
employees'
[Heard]
pipe
emblem of ignorance
Any tool used in manual
belt.
v.t.
p. 25]
ENGINE,
n.
See Big Bertha, Dinkey, drilling engine, gas engine, kerosene engine, longtail, mail pouch, Maud, mechanical steed,
exhausted well
129
engine, single-barrel engine, T-head en-
engine
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
See brains department, guessing department, stress-and-strain department.
engineering era of
The
time
highly
trained
mark
the
technicians
volume
[LDO,
of time.
engine
An
Engler
[POR]
distillator
Eocene,
time.
The
ethyl gasoline
gasoline
to
which
tetraethyl
lead
An
abbreviation
upset
external
for
oil
field.
p. 72]
>M*
[RI
earliest
strata
deposited at that
equipment of identity
Any equipment carrying a number by
which it is called and requisitioned.
most
volatile fractions.
[POR]
evaporation test
deeper than
excavator,
n.
2. The
[LDO]
[Heard]
tion of the
period.
[POR]
1.
oil.
v.t.
evaporation losses
Engler
ESTIMATE,
E.U.E.
oil
oil
heavier.
ethyl, n.
oil
when
method
content in petroleum
distillate
ENGINEER,
Eshka method
A
v.).
n.
pipe-line shovel.
exchanger,
hell.
[Heard]
n.
[KI]
exhausted well
A well which has produced most or all
of its supply of oil and is no longer profitable. [DO, October 14, 1947]
exhaustion
exhaustion,
The
130
n.
process of extracting
stance whatever
expander,
is
from a sub-
removable. [D]
n.
[D]
drill-bit
may
that
gum
jack-squib,
line
squib,
brew, gelatin
hell's
broth,
rack-rock,
[POR]
[KOT]
extension producer
expansion gas
increase in
volume
of a gas caused
well
of a
limits
1947]
extension well
See extension producer. [Heard]
[POR]
expansion joint
device
shell,
export kerosene
coil
The
dynamite,
The
gas.
devil's
oil,
dynamite,
be adjusted for
expansion
EXPLOSIVE, n.
See blasting
expansion bit
exploration crew
A commission or group of geologists.
[PE]
lines of pipe to
extraction, n.
or contraction. [D]
expansion line
The line on a graph or diagram of
pressures and volumes which shows the
pressure variation during the period of
expansion. A line drawn by an indicator
during the expansion stroke of an engine.
[POR]
expansion ring
The hoop or ring of the U-section
which is used to join lengths of pipe and
[D]
ture.
extract oil
An
oily
material dissolved
hand
and
exploration, n.
involved in looking for
2.
Descriptive
standard pipe.
use of minerals.
re-
An
1.
exploitation, n.
from
[KOT]
extra heavy
The work
undesirable residue
of a complex mix-
the
extra
or a coil in a
line of pipe to
1.
distillation
expansion loop
Either a U-shaped bend
or
The
or
Ex-
2.
of
working
pres-
farm boss
J3 1
man
extra
eyeball,
substitute.
sight a pipe to test it for straightness or length without the use of instru-
extraneous, adj.
ments. [KI]
[KE]
extraneous gas
A gas which comes from a spring
tinct to itself of the deposit in
eye bolt
A rod or bolt threaded
at
part of a
machine
produc-
eye-box,
n.
[PE]
tion.
v.t.
To
[Heard]
1.
for hoisting.
drilling tool. 2.
extra strong
[POR]
[NO]
eye rester
A worker who, when he is caught
napping, says he was not asleep but was
[POR]
The name
which
is
F&FA.
Fabian system
See free
to
To
since been
to
p. 135]
office force;
applied derisively by
white-collar jobs.
all
[PO]
fan shooting
method
on a geological
seismograph. [PE]
fan spread
term used on
meaning
still
when
The
that
1855
drill
by sending out
fall, v.i.
of
rapidly.
boys
workers to
[Heard]
[Re-
CABLE-TOOL DRILLING. To
field
finery
ported]
[MU,
fair-haired
The
which has
go
jails
plode.
originated
[POR]
fail to
pedo
Fooling
father of free-fall
others
all
this system,
modified.
fail
The
systems;
drilling
from
fall.
[Heard]
v.).
lateral
[PE]
farewell sand
is
oil
farm boss
One who
because the pumpers and other maintenance men are under him, and his unit
is a lease which was probably a farm at
farmer
132
farmer,
n.
[ME,
763]
p.
farmer's
oil
worthless
which
bling
oil,
shale.
[Heard]
farmer's sand
1. Oil sand which has not yet been
reached; always the sand that one will
reach if he can drill "just one more foot."
2. The productive sand which allegedly
would have been reached if a dry hole had
been drilled deeper; named for the tendency of farmers upon whose land unsuccessful wells have been drilled to
think that oil would have been reached
if the drilling had been carried deeper.
[PO]
One
fault block
bed of rock
of the shallow,
hand-dug wells
which were abandonee!" during the depression in the oil industry (Warren
hemmed
in
by
faults.
[POR]
fault breccia
The
breccia
in a shear
which
zone
of thrust faults.
is
frequently found
in the case
especially
[POR]
fault dip
The
from a horizontal
escarpment or scarp
fault
farmer well
1.
An
escarpment or
cliff
resulting
from
[POR]
farm
1.
out, v.t.
To
drill
out an area.
down
The
many
or with an
as are allowed,
fault plane
When
as
artificial reference.
surface along
[POR]
which dislocation or
[POR]
age which occasionally proves expedient for a large company. [LIN, Vol. XIII,
fault strike
No.
(January, 1948)]
by which the
[POR]
fault, n.
1.
of rock, attended
of the intersection of
[POR]
fault terrace
scarps
fatigue, n.
direction
a horizontal surface.
fat asphalt
are determined.
The
by a movement on one
one
Fauvelle, n.
A system of drilling invented in 1846
by an Englishman, Beart, and a French
engineer, Fauvelle, which provided for
the continuous removal of debris from
the well by means of a water flush or
current of water. All the waterflush systems now in use are modifications of this
system, which has long ceased to be
used in its original form. [POR]
female connection
f.b.p.
field
33
commonly used
abbreviation
for
called
[Heard]
feather bar
A bar machined to a thin edge to
wedge
is
believed
fence-jack, n.
[NO]
pull-rods; a come-along.
feathered, adj.
Thinned;
fence gang
The crew that repairs fences after a
pipe line is laid or repaired. [Heard]
is
cut by gas.
ferry, n.
[S]
horse-drawn
slide or
sled used in
fee, n.
Land operated
under a
contrasted with
land operated under a lease. Estates in
fee and estates in tail are quite different
right of ownership
as
according to
feed water
Boiler water supplied to
make up
An open heater
which the steam comes into
is
[HOO,
p. 178]
fiber grease
[KOT]
An
more
feed-water heater
A device used to heat feed water by
means of the exhaust steam taken from
machinery.
streets.
F.F.&W.
field, n.
for
[POR]
evaporation.
muddy
one in
direct con-
oil
wells.
[BA,
two or
p. 138]
fieldman
The worker who secures contracts for
the company and sees that work is proceeding properly. Sometimes called a
trouble shooter. See head roustabout.
[Heard]
tact
into
contact
sense
cable-tool
of
driller
points regarding the operation of drilling. He puts his fingers on the drilling
cable so often that he is sometimes called
a rope cho\er. [S]
feel
ahead
To
drill
[LDO,
field
tank
p.
372]
p. 157]
tankage
collective
term for
[F,p. 112]
[Heard]
field
feeler, n.
pump
A pump
field rates
feel, n.
The
field
work
fifth
134
through the
fifth, n.
drillers to
one of
Easyer,
in
Produces
to fifty feet.
oil in
many
other
the
parts
rock
weight.
earth or
fuller's
other filtering
through any
medium. [POR]
filter flask
filter-
n.
The
To
oil
you'll find
it
[DO, October
22,
1947]
film of survey
machine used
other wax from a
to separate paraffin or
pressure extraction.
[POR]
refineries, etc.
[POR]
gravity
in
by
[POR]
final, v.t.
[KOT]
find, n.
newly discovered
oil deposit.
[DO,
bottom
loo\ for bottom (q.
[Reported]
v.).
aggregate
Aggregate in which the largest particles have a diameter of less than % inch.
fine
[KOT]
fines, n. pi.
to be treated in the
same way
powdered
as ordinary
filter, air
filter
fluid or semifluid
Rock
filter, v.i.
cylinder.
press
To
fill-up, n.
filter,
filter
own
[NO]
its
through
fifty-foot
medium by
[POR]
making connection.
fisherman
i35
finger board
perature at which
To
prepare
for
oils
specified
use.
To
(j-
when
close to the
To
became
er,
finishing pro-
pay (100
feet or less)
and
made
for a
num-
final
connections. See
is
coming.
[OK]
V^C
the hole
is
in his
\>
firing line
fireman
The roughneck on a rotary crew who
fires the boiler. Also called man on the
pot and boilerman. [BA, p. 31]
n.
1
method of laying pipe. The pipe is
assembled, welded, and laid in 200-foot
sections, a technique similar to that of
firemen coupling long stretches of hose
in assembly-line fashion. [F, p. 135] 2.
The welders who complete welding on a
pipe line behind the first bead. [Heard]
first arrival
The
coming and
FIREMAN,
who
finish
the hole.
about a refinery
own
finished distillate
up a job
To make the
lawyer
A man
finish
fire in
fire
[Heard]
fire in
were
boilers
wall
fire
fire-wall
when
[Heard]
See
obsolete
the pot
To
finish barefooted
The
[NO]
the motor
fire
fire
The
includes drilling with a reverse rig, running tubing, and acidizing (West Texas).
To
oil
test.
complete a well.
cess begins
burning
called
first
at
mountain sand
name given by
quenessing
stone.
first
[NO]
sand
point
The temperature at which a petroleum
product will burn continuously. See
fire
flash point.
[POR]
[BOW,
p. 91]
fire test
The
out.
an
v.i.
to
any
2.
fish for:
article
which
<\
oil
or broken tools
lost in
To
fire still
refine crude
is
[POR]
fisherman,
n.
One who
[NO]
broken
tools.
%^
fishing
136
worm, sand
fishing, n.
The
made from
[LDO]
tools
lost
casing from
or
borehole.
fishing time
The
broken
from reaming
work. [LDO,
or other
p. 372]
fishing tool
weighing
tools
tons,
combination
hand,
spear,
[Heard;
DO, November
18, 1947]
Fish
the ]ac\
(q.
[Heard]
Pond ^-c>^~
name
field; so called
fish scales
Lime, rust, or oxygen scales resembling fish scales which form on pipe and
other equipment. [PE]
fishtail bit
and
clay).
[NO]
fitting, n.
hook, blind
dog
twist
washdown
[NO]
FISHING TOOL
See basket,
tubing spear,
fish plate
fishing tap
grab,
fish job
tools.
These
tool
twist-drill spear,
fishing jars
Jars
tractor,
drill,
fishing basket
dog-
FITTING, n.
See bushing, cap, casing head, Christ-
mas
tree, closed
ing
head,
return bend, control cashead, cross, crossover, cross-over tee, crowbar connection,
doughnut, drill collar, drivehead, driving cap, elbow, jump-over, nipple, offset,
reducer, tee, turnbuckle.
control
five-foot stick
is
sunk in
i37
the approximate center of four near-by
wells so that it will strike new sources of
oil in the same region. As the oil begins
run from
well, water
forced
into the four other wells which in turn
forces the rest of the oil within the locality to flow from the last well bored. At
times the water may be forced into the
new well to force the others to produce.
to
this
is
[TI]
flange, n.
an
lip,
or rib; a
[D]
orifice.
flanged joint
joint in pipe
made by
flanges bolted
together. [D]
flanged pipe
Pipe provided with flanges so that the
ends can be held together by bolts. [D]
flange union
fixation, n.
The
Abel
flash,
process by
which a gas
or fluid
up
To make
1.
To
well. 2.
is
fixed carbon
on threaded
pipe.
[D]
flange
the
fixed-bed unit
A cracking unit in which the catalyst
stationary. [Heard]
and
oil field,
finish
on a
any piece of work in
slang.
3.
To
finish anything:
)r
er.
flank, n.
fixed gas
The
fizz, n.
flank play
The
fields.
[Heard]
flank well
known
pool.
flare, n.
flag, v.i.
To work under
an assumed name.
[Heard]
To
<V 5
refining. Smoke stacks used in burning waste gas. The term was first applied to burning gases. [Heard]
and
go out immediately, as contrasted with
fire, which means to flash and continue
to burn until the inflammable material is
consumed. [KI]
flame propagation
flash,
flambeaux,
The
n. pi.
which
flame spreads
through a combustible mixture. [POR]
rate
at
ignite suddenly or
explosively
Abel
on
certain
[KOT]
flash,
Cleveland
138
Cleveland
open-cup flash tester used in the
United States for making flash-test determinations on lubricating oils. [KOT]
flash,
An
flash,
open cup
which the vapors given
ing
on
tests
fuel oils.
mak-
[KOT]
oil
un-
[LDO]
test that
ignite briefly.
[NO]
To
flash at a leak.
said to
line
When
The degree
of Fahrenheit temperature
n.
and
make
it
flat
rig.
n^X
down
tear
or dismantle a derrick
[Heard]
flatter, n.
forge tool.
[NO]
v.t.
See ear
banger,
meat auger.
oil
and catches
flash point
2.
The
test
made
oil.
to deter-
[KI]
gold
brick,
graper,
n.
process of refining by
fleet
angle
The
side angle at which a rope approaches the sheave; the angle between
the center line of the sheave and the
center line of the rope. Experience has
proved that the best service is obtained
when this angle does not exceed one
The
which
floating part of
an apparatus
A tool used by
smoothing the
surface of cement, concrete floors, and
a tank or other vessel. 2.
the
cement
finisher
in
flash vaporization
by cable
one position.
from a fractured
To
FLATTERY,
flash out
refining.
for
FLATTERER,
which the
oil
heated to a high temperature and allowed to flash into vapor which is subsequently cooled, the various cuts being
is
suitable
FLATTER,
flashing test
mine
is
flatten out
flashing, n.
flash.
borehole which
asphalt. [KI]
fire, it is
hole
An
Pensky-Martens
flash gasoline
leaks
p.
flat-roof asphalt
[BA,
[BB, p. 486]
allowed to escape.
[KOT]
flat
condense.
they
as
flash test in
flash,
recovered
203]
float collar
flotation oil
!39
be floated into the well and serves as a
stop for the cementing plug.
[LDO]
floater, n.
flock or floe, n.
float in casing
which
is
drilled
To
-float
in pipe,
the
driller
drives
mud. [POR]
floating roof
actually floats
shell
as
the
oil
simplest form,
it is
level
changes.
a large, flat
pan
In
its
slight-
ly smaller in
tem of
trailer.
[Heard]
float
on the
solution,
mass of
especially
that
floe test
ing
oils for
[NO]
insoluble by heat.
flog, v.t.
beat steel
to
separate riveted or
flogging
hammer
flooding, n.
1. The drowni ng ou t
of a well by
water; often results from drilling too
deeply into the sand. [NO] 2.
process
by which oil is sometimes driven from
the sand into the well by either designed
or natural conditions. [POR]
floor block
A snatch
bloc\. [Heard]
floorman
same
bituminous materials.
boom
Floridin, n.
Fuller's earth
Florida;
son,
float viscosity
test
in
flop joints
line
floating
Floor
float job
rides
Any
matter
To
Floating Palace
and
[D]
tion.
hanger-on. [Heard]
To
flocculent, adj.
[KOT]
flotation oil
An
ore
oil
separation;
flotation process
140
flowing well
1. An oil well containing enough pressure to blow or lift the oil to the surface. [NO] 2. An oil well which has
flotation process
[LDO]
FLOW INTERMITTENTLY
See
breathe,
gurgle,
head,
flow
burp,
head flow,
by
heads,
pulsate,
spit
oil.
flow,
To
v.t.
let
[DO, October
duce.
14,
flow-line pressure
The
1947]
jl
flow bean
A removable
The
flow meter
A measuring device (orifice) installed
in oil lines to measure the flow of oil in
barrels. [Heard]
flow by heads
line
p.
490]
flow chart
The complete chart of the refining procrude from the time it reaches the
refinery until it is shipped out as a
finished product. The chart gives a graphcess of
flow head
for use
by
artificial
means. [POR]
oil.
[Heard;
DO, December
7,
1947]
flowing plant
A name sometimes applied to a compression plant where air or gas is compressed for use in the gas-lift
pumping. [POR]
A short piece
outside
which
of pipe
the flow
method
of
is
the
same
connections
but is bored to a much smaller size to
restrict the flow; used to control a flowing well. [POR]
size
line
flow point
The temperature
which noncrystal-
at
hydrocarbons such
as
asphaltum be-
[POR]
flow rate
The
a pipe.
[DO, November
16, 1947]
flow sheet
A diagram showing the sequence of
manufacturing or refining operations in
the production of such compounds as
petroleum oils and waxes. [POR]
flow string
See oil string. [Heard;
flowing gold
Crude
pipes leading
flow nipple
side
flow lines
To
downstream
[POR]
pressure on the
LDO,
p.
410]
flow tank
The
oil will
flush production
141
conditions. [D]
specified
determine the potential production of a well by opening the flow
bean completely. [Heard]
[Heard]
slipping through
flow treater
it is
and
under
To
v.t. 2.
fluid-tamping, n.
The
filling of a
when
will be kept
flow well
See flowing well. [Heard]
fine
flue gases
flunkey, n.
roustabout. [KI]
mud
Mud filled
[POR]
it.
from passing up
the hole
[NO]
(1904).
fluid unit
it flows
with or against the
stream. See fluid. [Heard]
fluffy
that
term
often
incorrectly
used
for
fluorescence, n.
The
and puffed up with gas
the
their surface,
1948]
fluid, n.
Any
light.
In
some
producing reflected
from those
of the original
become
visible only
when
they strike
[D]
or calcium.
fluid catalyst
The
thus
colors different
cracking.
The
in
catalyst
state of division
stream, behaving
The
catalyst used
fluid
may
catalytic
be in a fine
much
oil
like a fluid, or
called bloom.
colors,
often
[POR]
flush, v.t.
To
in a
fluid inclusion
flush joint
fluid level
it
may
Phillips for
oils at
various temperatures.
fluid-packed pump
A small diameter
flush production
The
pump
[POR]
designed to
an
early period
fluidmeter, n.
An
flush pipe
[POR]
oil
of production,
fluted
142
swedge
fluted
wedge
footage, n.
-y
The number of
fied time. [LDO]
flux, n.
footpiece, n.
crooked
flying connection
foaming,
[Heard]
n.
trade
[POR]
monkey
[Reported]
foot shoe
Steam. [PO]
foggy handle
device used in breaking out pipe
on
It
To
into a well.
it is
being lowered
[POR]
foot's oil
A common
fera (microscopic
"^
from the drill pipe when it is being handled in stands of four joints
each. Also fourble board. [POR]
tors
forced draft
A system of mechanical draft by which
the air is blown into the ashpit above
atmospheric pressure. [POR]
fog, n.
follow
foble board
board (q.
when
p. 68]
name
oil to
forams,
foamite, n.
The
method
down
lower casing
forced production
force feed
A system of lubrication in which
pumped
[POR]
is
to
oil
pump
force
above the drilling tools. This prois carried out if the water has
made the hole cavy. [BA, p. 117]
is
just
cedure
follower, n.
small-gauge drill used in the borehole after the upper part has been completed with the starter (q. v.). [D]
1.
forgy handle
A term commonly used to designate
the handle on the Barnett lever jack;
named for the first salesman (William
Forgy) to introduce the jack in the oil
'1/
C
Fort
143
of the East. Also called foggy
handle, forced handle, forced sticky and
for\y handle. [POR]
fields
fork, n.
An
used
appliance
in
free-fall
sys-
A single line
forked stick
A forgy handle (q. v.). By folk etymology, forgy handle became in field
terminology forced
turn became forced
handle,
stic\.
which
in
[Heard]
forky handle
knobstones,
lightning rock,
sand,
oil
zone,
oil
Mississippi
mud
seed,
oil
rock,
oil
shales,
oil
one-hundred-and-forty-foot
sand,
rock,
sand, salt-water
and
shells, soapstone,
so-long
mappable
layers)
diggin',
Helderberg limestone,
hillside sand,
horseback, hundred-foot
sand, hurry-up sand, kerosene shale,
shale,
forked line
beds,
heaving
forked handle
formation,
Worth spudder
formation,
unit: a layer (or
of rock
which extends
group of
entirely
Trenton
tight
rock,
velvet.
formation packer
A packer set between tubing and casing and used to isolate two different
zones. [Heard]
FORMATION, n
formation pressure
See
Allegheny
formation,
asphaltic
Monday
bone, bottom
sets, boulder sand, buckbuttermilk sand, carboniferous system, cave, chalk rock, chat,
chicken-farm sand, chocolate rocks, copper rock, corn-meal pebble, cover, cowrun-sand, crooked shale, deep pay, deep
wheat
sands,
batter,
fifth, fifty-foot
rock,
The pressure at
when a well
posit
shut
in.
syn. Reser-
formation shut-off
The
When
[BA,p. 113]
form
oil
from
A portable drilling rig used in prospecting for oil or in completion activities; a bob-tail rig.
[Heard]
forty-foot rock
144
4-F bar
forty-foot rock
>
name used by
drillers
for certain
of
fossil oil
four-foot gas
An
early
fossil
rock
name
for petroleum.
[NO]
A common name
for
Ames
limestone.
year 1930.
The
was completed
in May, 1861, by CapA. B. Funk and was so named because it flowed about 300 barrels a day.
tain
choked with
cap.)
paraffin.
flowing well.
[POR]
2.
counties,
tip
shaped
like a
well drilled by S. L. Fowler, a farmwho, in order to finance a well on his land, organized the Fowler Farm Oil Company in
er near Burkburnett, Texas,
May,
1918.
His
drilling
was
when he
depth
FPO
Field purchase order; an abbreviation
used in reports of the Stanolind Oil Company. [Reported]
sene, gas
p. 127]
down petroleum
Four Corners
The name usually given
activity
fraction, n.
[BA,
with a
[PE]
Fowler's Folly
1.
bit
drill
cross.
(Not
[NO]
fourble, n.
joble.
p. 395]
Fountain Well
It
[LDO,
fourth sand
At
with about
States,
[OK]
Four inches
line.
foundation year
1.
Wood
[NO]
The
crowbar. Because
its
tions.
its
various frac-
[KI]
fraction,
1.
into
An
petroleum
series
tersection
named;
the
first in-
Corners.
sometimes
Heard]
shortened
to
The
of
French creeker
145
evaporating at that temmay be determined
arbitrarily or may include any number
drocarbon
perature.
oils
The
fraction
compounds
of the
Each condensate
tion.
[BA,
[POR] 2.
from fractiona-
desired.
resulting
the refinery
column
ly,
fractional distillation
1.
An
petroleum
liquids
trouble
hurried-
hence
the
sists
fray-sleeve, n.
[NO]
free acid
See acid,
free.
free carbon
Organic matter in
which have
tars
which
is
in-
An
analytical
free fall
1. An arrangement in deep drilling by
which the bit is allowed to fall freely to
the bottom at each drop or downstroke.
distillation
tions or
is
oil
two or more
ture of
there
Frasch process
its
tions
When
it is
name. [Heard]
p. 203]
fractional
stills.
necessary to dump
these valves are opened
and
components of petroleum
naphtha, kerosene, etc.) are
driven off in groups and separated by
distillation. Also called fractionation.
the various
(gasoline,
[POR]
The
2.
process
of operating
the drill;
[POR]
fall.
3.
The drop
I,
of the
220]
free water
separates
from
[Heard]
freeze, v.t.
fractionate,
so that
v.t.
See fraction,
fractionating
[D]
2.
column
See bubble tower. Also called fractionating tower and dephlegmating tower.
[BA,
p. 233]
solidifies.
fractionating tower
See bubble tower. Also called fractionating column and dephlegmating tower.
[BA,
fractionating tray
of a
of trays supporting
different
its
by precipitation,
is
components
crystallization,
or dis-
[LDO]
freezing point
The temperature at which oil ceases to
flow when the bottle is inverted. [D]
French creeker
A
some
distance
from
and
15
Jf"
the separator,
[Heard]
fractionation, n.
fraid valves
number
tillation.
freeze off
Said of
freezes.
p. 233]
One
[POR]
Frenchies
146
portation of
[AS,
oil
p. 114]
Frenchies,
n. pi.
Man
of
associate
Wickedest
in
drilling bit
I,
tf<
Said of any tool or machinery that
does not work properly. [Heard]
fsg.
1.
Gas used for heating, lighting,
power, etc., as distinguished from gas
used in the manufacture of gasoline. 2.
Residue gas from a natural-gasoline fac-
[POR]
tory.
fuel nozzle
with old
oil.
[NO]
the
bustion
as contrasted
drill-
fuel gas
and mixes
p. 225]
oil
air.
it
[KOT]
fuel oil
Any
um
friction, n.
is
frictionless fluid
Petroleum. [Heard]
friction-pulley, n.
frozen up
fresh bit
fresh
frozen pipe
A term applied to pipe held immovable in a hole by cavings which have
settled around the outside of the pipe.
n. pi.
[Heard]
p. 64]
Frenchmen,
off.
[LDO]
French Kate
An
frozen off
See freeze
[NO]
other standpoint, fuel oils are the distillates heavier than illuminating oils and
lighter than lubricating oils, ranging
from 25 to 30 Baume. [POR]
friction socket
in the hole.
[NO]
Frogs, n. pi.
1.
Employees of the Schlumberger
Well Surveying Corporation. See Frenchmen. [Heard] (Not cap.) Short for frog
hoard. [Reported]
frost
up
[Heard]
fuel
oil,
bunker
[POR]
fuel
Diesel
high-grade fuel
oil,
tarry
deposits,
purities;
gines.
from water,
and other im-
oil free
paraffin,
[POR]
heavy residual
topping
and kerosene.
It
gage, metal
47
fuel ratio
miscible.
furfural, n.
as a standard.
full boiling
[D]
of temperature at
funnel, separatory
which
An
liquids
used
[KOT]
asphalt
[KI]
furnace, muffle
fuller, n.
forge tool.
fuller's
[NO]
earth
nonplastic
[POR]
oils.
furnace distillate
See straw
filter installation
Distillate fuels
through which
parts
[BA,
distillate.
p.
240]
furnace fuels
full-flow-type filter
for separating
to a full boil.
[KI]
of
joints
hulls, etc.;
point
The degree
Tool
all
and other
[KOT]
and
residuals or blends
furnace
[KOT]
oil
G
cury whose height is proportional to the
pressure per unit area. The result may
be given either in terms of pounds per
square inch or in inches of mercury
gaffer, n.
gage,
n.
to surface.
[POR]
distance, or capacity. 2.
mine
pressures.
ascertain
v.t. 4.
To measure
the content or
[D]
capacity
5.
To
or
of a
deter-
gage, metal
A standardized thickness of metal
known as a gage or gauge number; sometimes used in ordering sheets or strips.
There are many of these gages, applying
to metal less than one-quarter inch in
width, but the U. S. Standard Gage is
generally employed for the plates and
sheets used in the construction of tanks.
[POR]
gage pressure
148
gage pressure
The
ling,
pressure
in
shown by
The
is
pressure
is
minus
absolute pressure
14.7.
[POR]
[WIL,
A small
n.
of
sylvania.
[POR]
garbet rod
A short rod on the lower end of the
traveling valve of a well pump. It is attached to the standing valve and is used
to pull the valve out of its seat when
repairs are necessary.
1.
gain, n.
The
socket.
into
Galena
of the production
[POR]
gas, n.
nipple.
sill
p. 53]
'er
One
which
gang
Gantz,
gaging nipple
in diameter,
[SA,
gang. [PO]
gaging, n.
See gaging nipple. [POR]
size.
p. 200]
gang pusher
The man in charge
gager, n.
See gauger. [D]
1.
p. 179]
gang, n.
A maintenance crew of any
latter
of the main-
oil
natural
oil
and lead
soap.
[NO]
fluid
to
Galician
method
method.
See
Canadian pole system and kicker-board
drilling
cable-tool
method. [LDO,
p. 375]
gallery, n.
to the oil
capacity
of
well. Also
Adapted from
[BA,
general
called
mining
drift.
terms.
p. 171]
The burning
p. 30]
gamblers, bootleggers,
and other questionable characters at Luretreat
gas, carbureted
dry or natural
Natural gas free or nearly free of
gas,
oil
gas a hole
To make
Gander Slue
galling, n.
[OPL,
for
gases in a
er or not
[Heard]
manhole
it
is
to
determine wheth-
gas
149
gas drive
gas anchor
extended below a pumping barrel of a deep well pump to prevent the pump -from becoming gasbound. [POR]
special pipe
gas and
oil
separator
[LDO]
oil.
A scale
weigh gas or
or balance used to
its
specific gravity.
[POR]
gas engine
An
which
most com-
One
of the
1.
troducing a cold iron surface into a luminous gas flame. See carbon black. [D]
lar to gas. 2.
Lacking
of gas; simi-
solidity: fluid,
but
gas factor
The number
gas buggy
The
gaseous, adj.
gas black
surplus
gas balance
to obtain
lift
gas
oil.
Also called
[POR]
field
tract or district yielding natural gas.
[D]
[ST, p. 25]
gas gage
gas cap
deposit
oil
of
p. 62]
gas carbon
solid
arc
and
ies.
[D]
from
that
formed
[D]
Descriptive of
gasholder
tank or bowl
used to
mud
or water
[DO, November
device used to
mixed
gas
14, 1947]
show
the presence of
gas-distillate, n.
lift
methane. [D]
gas-distillate
manu[POR]
cake. [Heard]
gas detector
gasket, n.
gas retorts; so
in
it
gas-cut, adj.
gas.
gas coke
with
gaslock
150
tion of gas or
flow the well only periodically. Intermittent gas lift is usually employed when
the well is a small producer. The injection of the gas is regulated at intervals
[POR]
hours.
v.t. 2.
To
[A]
gasoline, n.
An
name
indefinite
of boiling points
tillate
late of
down
and
to 56
sidered gasoline at present, or any distillate having an end point higher than
470. There is no fixed definition because of the continuing necessity for
making deeper
is
etc.
[POR]
GASOLINE
gaslock, n.
The formation of bubbles of gasified
fuel producing a pocket of gas which prevents the fuel from flowing through the
amount
gas
oil,
to
oil,
An
heavy
moonlight
ethyl,
natural,
and new
navy gasoline, over, poly, gas, poly, gasoline, polymerized gasoline, raw gasoline,
reformed gasoline, regular, regular gaso-
light
product between
"heavy end" and paraffin distillate; distinguished from heavy gas oil, which is
obtained in subsequent reduction of
intermediate
paraffin
night ethyl,
gas
See aviation gasoline, casing head, casing-head gas, casing-head gasoline, cooking oil, cracked gasoline, cut, drip gasoline, dump gas, East Texas gas, ethyl,
distillate.
So
[D]
prived of naphtha.
called
2.
because
line,
solidified
gasoline,
sour
gasoline,
gasoline,
straight-run
sweet
gasoline,
it
Petroleum de-
gasoline, casing-head
[NO]
gasoline.
[POR]
gas-oil ratio
The
by a
proportion of gas to
specific pool or
oil
produced
oil.
[POR]
meter
gas
gas-oil-ratio
much
gasoline, cracked
is
meter
gasoline, synthetic
used in determining
required to lift a certain
ber of barrels of
oil.
how
num-
[Heard]
gasol, n.
It
has a specific
Artificial
gasoline
made from
sub-
um
products.
[POR]
gasoline additive
Material such as tetraethyl lead and
diphenylamine added to gasoline to improve its burning property. The additive inhibits gum formation and supposedly absorbs the knock. [KI]
gas zone
i5i
gasoline plant
The
stone
in
v.).
[BA,
p. 155]
and
removing
built
gasoline,
oils,
and the
oil field.
[POR]
gasoline value
The value of intermediate distillates
such as kerosene and distillate fuel as
substitutes for crude in the production
[SHU,
of gasoline.
p. 86]
gas pressure
The
upon
gasser, n.
1. A well producing natural gas. 2.
braggart or one who talks too much.
[Reported]
gas spurts
Small mounds appearing above geological strata which contain organic matter. Said to be caused by the escape of
gas.
[POR]
gassy, adj.
Pertaining
gas.
impregnated
or
to
[DO, November
with
12, 1947]
gas tank
oil.
gas trap
movement
in the
gasoline trap
tained.
it,
[POR]
[POR]
One
rate
of the
many
lead
to separate.
the
chamber
The
is
drawn
while the oil is discharged at the bottom. [D] Now more frequently called
oil and gas separator. [BA, p. 153]
gas producer
[POR]
gas well
1. A deep boring from which natural
gas is discharged. 2. In oil and gas leases,
a well having such a pressure and volume
gas (taking into consideration its
proximity to market) that it can be
utilized commercially. [D]
of
gas regulator
See gas-pressure regulator valve.
[Heard]
GAS WELL
gas reversion
gasworks
gas rock
field
name
Caddo Lake,
for the
Nacatoh sand
in
gas sand
1.
is
manufactured.
[POR]
gas zone
gate
152
gate, n.
1.
oil.
it
2.
sluice valve
seats
recess,
oil
through gravity
on the
lines
lease
leases.
Many
fields,
field
pumps
particularly
methods. [OPL,
gate valve
can receive
from
gauge,
p.
6]
n.
See gage.
gauge glass
whole being
connected to a boiler or other vessel for
the purpose of observing the liquid level.
[POR]
gather grapes
To
play
atorily.
up
[Heard]
gauge hole
p. 158]
gathering lines
gauge
1.
The
tanks at
[D]
2.
connecting production
wells to trunk pipe lines.
lines connected to the wells
oil
The
service
producing
duce.
life
of
[POR]
gathering
See
life
field
pump. [BA,
pipelining.
the
tank.
will sink
gauger,
through thick
n.
in
gauge
tickets
gauging nipple
p. 175]
gathering station
field station at the
main trunk
[LDO]
Gbo.
end
along a spur
line built to tap a particular district. In
either case, it serves as a feeder which,
with a number of similar stations, usually obtains a quantity of oil equal to the
capacity of the trunk lines. The gathering stations are connected to the trunk
lines by discharge lines which usually
range from four to eight inches in diameter. In some fields the topography
of the
to
[WIN,
pump
line
pipes
line or
in drill-
ing reports.
gear case
oil
gear grease
153
not be thrown
"track."
off
by centrifugal force or
[POR]
varies
upon
whose composition
between wide limits, depending
explosive
use.
its
typical composition
is
sodium
2.5
cipally in close
to
water.
An
it is
exposed
[POR]
explosive.
Genesee
work where
Solidified nitroglycerin or
3.
name
for
petroleum.
[GI,
assumption that microgas-leakages occur above oil and gas deposits, the leakages being determined by soil, soil-air,
or comparable analyses. [LDO, p. 323]
geoilogist [ge-oil-o-gist]
nickname
489[
geoline, n.
vaseline or petroleum.
[POR]
German
forced
is
vaseline
compound
of dissolved paraffin or
[POR]
oils.
get, v.t.
[DO, January
18,
1948]
get a ball on
Said of mud which sticks to the
and impedes drilling. [BB, p. 490]
drill
get a bone
To
drill in
p. 490]
geological horizon
GEOLOGIST,
total
To
>
p. 11]
logging.
electric
oil
early
in
gelatin dynamite
An
used
[Heard]
1.
detectors
to
gear jammer
canned
it
To
it
jellied.
n.
get
it
kellied
See bird dog, exploration crew, geoilogist, mud smeller, pebble picker, pebble
pup, rock hound, rocksy, roxy, sand
smeller, smeller, wrinkle chaser.
geologize,
v.t.
To
[LDO,
possibilities.
geolograph,
p. 335]
n.
An
geophone,
1.
To
equipment of a seismo-
The
expres-
when
Now
refers to
To
n.
To
any
it
would
activity.
start again.
[Heard]
down
To
on the
get
line
154
truc\. [Heard]
beam. [Heard]
get out of the weather
To get under shelter in bad weather.
[BB, p. 490]
To find
SA,
p. 200]
To
come
in, the
production;
is on produc-
to
small scow which was used to transport oil during the oil boom at Pithole,
Pennsylvania, about 1865. See guiper.
[T, p. 33]
girt, n.
girth, n.
See
n.
[POR]
girt.
girth sheets
oil.
[Heard]
[Heard]
geyser,
[Heard]
A command
1.
gin truck
gipe, n.
get production
1.
gin popper
See gin pole,
The water
The
an
steel plates
oil still.
forming the
sides of
[D]
ghost walks
The pay checks have come. [Heard]
diameter
G.I.
foot lengths. It
made up
gin
During
Gas
injection;
drilling reports.
an abbreviation used in
[LDO,
p.
428]
Gib Morgan
See Morgan, Gib.
gin,
1.
v.i.
To
To
1.
it
out
To unload
a truck
by raising the
To move
anything
is
bombing
attack,
it
jumps and
quickly.
gin job
To reprimand severely;
[Heard]
gin pole
[POR]
gin-pole truck
A truck equipped with a gin pole for
gether.
[WIL,
to
ream
out.
to-
p. 53]
stroke,
which shortens
hole deepens.
[LDO,
p. 396]
as
the drill
the third,
To
1861.
valve
whose chamber
mately spherical.
ball
is
2.
is
approxi-
valve in which a
it.
[D]
"wise guy."
[OK]
for a lease tractor;
[Heard]
go dead
To
[DO,
tell
go fishing
in blind
guess where to drill for oil without the aid of fortuneteller or wizard:
"He went in blind." An early term used
in oil-prospecting.
[NO]
of the
York Survey.
[RI, p. 149]
Golden Groove
A narrow sector of the South Ceres
pool of Noble County, Oklahoma: the
northeast-southwest trend of the "shoestring" play which runs to the northeast
side of the Southeast Ceres pool. [DO,
April 28, 1948]
Golden Lane
1. The heaviest oil-producing area of
the Mexia, Texas, oil field. [RI, p. 173]
2. The Barton arch district of central
district
of
Golden Trend
[DO, November
16, 1947]
oil
One
name
1.
An
Golden Block
goat, n.
derisive
oil.
To
Gluckenheimer, Mr.
down
[Heard]
To
globe valve
1.
gone to water
55
gone to
salt
water
gone to water
Descriptive of a well
drowned out by
p. 140]
good
structure
156
good structure
An
go wild
The
of
oil.
of
moderate
is
one
g.p.m. test,
To
v.t.
rising
be longer than
wide, or irregular in
shape. It is essential that the rocks dip
downward away from the crest in every
direction.
goo
it is
[BA,
graper (q.
v.).
derogatory
name
for a shovel.
line
on a
still.
[NO]
of the hose
2.
on
fishing tool. 2.
An
implement for
when
it
parts
gradient, n.
(q. v.).
[Heard]
Goslin,
n.
[KOT]
GOR meter
The smallest
made by the
graded aggregates
n.
wagon
An
n.
n.
The vapor
go-up,
drill-
grab sample
gooseneck,
test to
[KI]
grab,
[Heard]
An
Evidently a corrup-
gopher,
n. 2.
goon spoon
1.
tural-gasoline content.
1.
test
Gr.
p. 58]
golliper
tion of
1.
to
an improved type
Perforation
is
effected
by
bringing the star wheel into forcible contact with the interior of the casing.
[POR]
[NO]
Grahamite,
in a plant
Com-
go wagon
syn. Casing truck, casing
on plant
dolly. [Reported]
Graham, n.
The name given
California.
n.
increase in activity:
government work
Private work done
n.
hydrocarbon, resembling
al-
which is
soluble in carbon disulphide and chloroform (but not in alcohol) and is fusible.
bertite
It
wagon, or
brittle
fic
in
its
jet-black
luster,
fracture. [A]
grease
157
monkey
granite rock
al-
tion.
A
it is
worked
p.
323]
gravity, n.
granny rag
[LDO,
oil.
[KI]
gravity, A.P.I.
scale
developed by the
graper,
American Petroleum
Institute to express
The
n.
worker
who
[WIN,
grass gooser
A scuffle hoe (q.
peeler. [Heard]
grasshopper, n.
1. A tool used
slips
to his boss
p. 138]
and
One
joint,
join pipes
part of the
forming a
braced over
A pumping unit; a
counterbalance on a
is
[POR] 2.
pump. 3. The
pumping unit. [Heard]
the top.
jack
around the
grasshopper
An
1903.
rig, n.
[NO]
grassroots, n.
]LDO[
gravy tower
The
work
at
noon.
Gray's tester
An instrument used in determining
the flashing point of heavy oils. [D]
Gray vapor-phase
in
tillates
cracking
taken
is
through
the
grease, n.
[NO] 2. A mixture of
1. Crude oil.
mineral oil with lime-and-soda soaps.
[D] 3. A short form of cup grease. 4.
Butter. [Heard]
pi.
pendulum
[G]
Grasshopper City
to the region
(such
gravity
to align
under the
A name given
In this
v.).
up"
"plays
gravity
gravel-packed liner
A pipe strainer packed with gravel;
used to filter sand from the oil in the
well. [PE]
graveyard, n.
The midnight to 8:00 a.m. tour. [ME,
p. 763] Also called hoot owl. [KI]
gravimeter, n.
An instrument used in geophysical ex-
it
up
[Heard]
grease hole
A new
grease
1.
oil well.
[Heard]
monkey
The
oiler at a
pump
filling-station attendant. 3.
helper. [Heard]
station. 2.
machinist's
grease-mope
158
grease-mope,
n.
grease plant
An
department of certain
auxiliary
in
refineries
and various fatty products (such as inedible lard and tallow oils, horse oil, etc.)
are compounded with nonviscous paraffin oils or other petroleum products into
semifluid or pastry lubricants technically called greases.
[D]
greaser, n.
An
1.
afflicted
136]
oil well.
with
oil
n. pi. 3.
[Heard] 2. A person
on the brain. [OIL, p.
The
clothes in
which
oil-
work. [Heard]
fielders
Greaser, the
grease
The
greasy
money
1.
ly.
and quick-
oil activities.
[K,
greasy spoon
together.
[LDO]
stem
Heavy square
grief
The
to a driller
boring.
It
grind-out, n.
sample of
grind-out machine
device
of a
ground bed
Thus
oil
green
and square
unknown.
is
Field workers say that it is so called because it brings grief to a worker who is
struck by it in making a connection, and
groceries, n.
Virginia (1890).
[NO]
greyhounds, n. pi.
"Make-up" lengths of
A
easily
p. 133]
hotel
pi.
Lunch (not
[Heard]
away from
pipe lines; now being replaced by a carbon-base electrode, which has proved
more
satisfactory.
ground
[Heard]
roll
surface
wave
of long duration
and
159
ground water
and
The
estimate.
v.t.
gummy
bottoms
To make
a rough
estimate. [Heard]
ground-water level
The
level
subsoil
down
to
unknown
depths are
filled
ground
and
[LDO,
drilling reports.
guiper, n.
piece
of
timber, usually
inches by 10 inches, in
which the
narrow barge
10
bull
oil
lineman's
helper
who
carries
the
blown
oil
gum,
1.
n.
of a well (1903).
[NO]
2.
mucilagi-
gum, gasoline
The residue
of
volatilized
gasoline.
[KOT]
n. pi.
odoriferous, tar-colored
acci-
near
dents to persons
sistency of putty.
gumbo,
as clay,
[POR]
guessing stick
slide rule.
gum
gummy,
of the con-
[NO]
n.
dynamite
gummy,
guestimate,
Any
mud
guessing department
1.
p. 41]
safety
p.
Gulf binder
gum-beds,
guard
[AS,
144]
[POR]
grunt, n.
fifteen to twenty-five
long,
feet
guipper, n.
See guiper. [WIL,
p. 428]
grudging post
floor.
pi.
ing
[PE]
five to
gr. sd.
mouth
to guide
etc.,
growler board
large
1.
Any
guides, n.
grout, n.
guide rib
[Heard]
gummy bottoms
n.
rough estimate;
adj.
Viscous but without lubricating power; resinous, sticky, but not oily. [POR]
a blend of guess
Mucilaginous residues
[PE]
in
petroleum.
gum
gum
160
test
gut, n.
test
test
1.
steam
gun
a conductor. [Heard]
barrel
(q. v.).
[Heard]
small
made
used as
feet high;
oil,
diametric
wood with
of
tank,
about sixteen
a flow tank to receive
staves
gun
barrel.
[POR]
on an engine,
split to
make
barker
and
gutter gas
An
up
to three
gun perforator
[DO, January
An
has
guy anchor
The support on which
attached. See dead
A
mast
[NO]
n.
mineral composed of water and calcium sulphate. Contains 32.5 per cent
lime. [POR] 2. A term sometimes ap-
plied in
gusher sand
fuse
lift
treatment. [KI]
gypsy
p. 488]
driller
driller
gushing gold
Petroleum.
is
n.
to the surface.
guy
gypsum,
oil
a derrick
man. [D]
guy wire
gusher,
or a spar in place.
30, 1948]
gurgling well
boom
guy ring
shooting
walls.
in proportions as required,
muffler
the
guy,
originally
gunite, n.
v.t. 3. To flow a
well as rapidly as possible. [DO, January
29, 1948]
The
2.
gutted muffler
gun-barrel tank
[KI]
line.
[HOO,
p. 52]
<p [BG,
who
follows
(q. v.)
is
boom
towns.
a typical example.
p. 37]
H
Haas
An
tester
half soles
flash-
Welded
of pipe.
[OPL,
p. 84]
hang her on
i6i
[Heard]
activities.
used to grasp
lost tools
half
wraps
Clamp-like
damaged
oil
used
devices
pipe;
worker
who
work
the pipeliners to
hand-dug well
half-turn socket
wrench
hammerman
half trip
complete
the
two
to
pieces
repair
make
To
package (q.
Halliburton line
1. A heavy-duty pipe capable of withstanding great pressure; used in cementing wells. [Heard] 2. A steel measuring
line or wire used in measuring depth of
is
so treated that
Sometimes
it
The
hand specimen
A
as a
1.
p.
adj.
connection loose
by hand. [WIN,
Cool enough to be handled.
to be taken off
139]
2.
handy
billy
A small
est
liquids. It
hang a well
pervious area above the crest of the anticline. Above this area the soil is low in
hydrocarbon content. Advocates of the
halo theory believe that the proper place
to drill is in the low-concentration area
within the halo. [BA, p. 76]
Hamel, n.
The name
hammer
used
[Heard]
ley.
is
Descriptive of a
enough
halo, n.
which
sample. [PE]
handy,
wire. [Reported]
in a line
to
is
off
To
hang her
To
off the
stop
bump-off
post.
bump-post
well
in
production. See
[Heard]
expression origi-
To
lift
erations.
[Heard]
hard asphalt
wrench
162
in order to
might cause a
fishing job. 2. To shut down any well;
to leave a well by itself. 3. To complete
any job. [Heard]
falling into the hole that
hard asphalt
which has
Solid asphalt
normal pene-
[KOT]
hard-boiled hat
A safety hat. [Reported]
Hard
rock. [S]
n.
leg screw
oil company
name for a poor-boy company
[MU, p. 489]
hardly-able
field
(q. v.).
hard-rock driller
Harmonial,
is
the
[NO]
Abram
him
James named
spiritualism
his well in
which he
and
honor of the
professed. [GI, p.
166]
harness
v.) of a truck.
[Re-
ported]
in drilling than
has actually been drilled, syn. Make a
hole with a pencil and steal hole. [BB,
p. 490]
making
it
ing job.
3.
To
n.
pipe
for
which
it
hay rake
Hd. sd.
Hard sand; an abbreviation used
drilling reports. [LDO, p. 428]
oil
maze
or before a
still;
head,
more
specifically
ap-
in
n.
The
[POR]
harp, n.
hat rack
The headache (q.
[Heard]
harness, v.t.
To bring under control. [S]
foot
hayrack,
n.
The name
It
1.
[NO]
by
n.
The opening
n.
forge tool.
Harlem Oil
hatch,
hatchet knot
A knot which cannot be untied and
must be cut. [Heard]
hard diggin(g)
hardhead,
head, horizontal to the lower pipe. Petroleum products are cooled here for the
next operation. [KI]
heating
163
v.t.
4.
To
well headed
[DO, October
5,
separator. 3.
used on a
cable-tool drilling rig to catch the weight
of the
beam
Any
2.
[Heard]
(q. v.).
(q. v.)
structure
1947]
headache, n.
1. The headache post
which
serves as protec-
head flow
The flowing
headgear,
1.
The
floor. It
it
is
beam
at
said that
when
escap-
[NO]
[WIN,
draw
p. 138]
district
hf-aH
rlnwn
srif)
your rear up
[WIN,
p. 138]
it
you
mak e
variation of
Head Roustabout
1.
tendent.
for
rigs.
head up,
v.t.
To
heater, n.
coils of
heat exchanger
The
elbow." [Reported]
tees,
colder liquid,
header, n.
1.
p.
[NO]
passes
ers are
[WIN,
oil
superintendent.
138]
[Heard]
*tEisjob."
2.
head knocker
oil.
works.
[D]
headache post
headboard, n.
The crossbeam
n.
An
server.
[RI, p. 57]
headlight
headache board
oil
which
sets of boil-
from which
heating
Any
oil
oil
21, 1947]
used for
fuel.
[WO, October
heat
it
heat
it
164
To
heavy
test
fuel
A very
heat test
applied to lubricating and trans-
The amount
of heat obtainable
from
heave hook
A heavy hook equipped with a swivel
shank for easy manipulation; used on a
traveling crane for lifting and carrying
steamboat
ratchet.
oils
ty,
heavy
heat value
[KOT]
heavy lubricating
lubricating
oils
distill
between
oil leases.
heel bolt
pipelining.
acres;
[LDO]
[KI]
height of fold
heaver, n.
An
The
early
name
for
a pipeliner
who
heaving shale
type of formation
which gives
rise
United
is
which
hole
when
the drill
fill
the drill
is
The
such as fuel
A heavy
petroleum fraction stays near the bot-
tom
heavier
oil fractions
lubes, waxes,
of the
stills
and
asphalts.
or fractioning towers,
A major petroleum product (a thicker, less volatile part of the make, such as
distillate,
lubricating
oil,
or
sludge)
p.
Helderberg limestone
name given
in the
United States to
is
[POR]
broth
term for nitroglycerin. [HOO,
field
p. 182]
helper, n.
syn. Cheater, swamper. [Heard]
made;
a fishing tool.
[POR]
heneicosene, n.
A hydrocarbon (C 2 iH 44 ) with a boiling point of 230 to 231, obtained from
Pennsylvania petroleum. [POR]
hen
heavy fraction
of the
height of tank
oils,
118]
heavy end
distance
fruit
hentricontane, n.
A hydrocarbon
(C 31 H 64
specific
i65
gravity 0.7997 at
70
from the
which was
F.)
hydrocarbons
found in certain Pennsylvania oil wells
by Professor Mabery. [POR]
separated
heptane,
solid
n.
(C 7 H 16
paraffin
[POR]
of goats
evasive answer to an inquiry con-
hexane,
hydrocarbon
saturated
boiling point 156 F.) of the
(C 6 H 14
official
of high
company.
rank in a well-
[S]
highwater pants
Trousers with the legs rolled up. [BB,
H.F.O.
Hole full
of oil;
in drilling reports.
Hillman
test
made on
test
mine the
stability
during
[KOT]
storage.
pressure
force built up in a pipe line which
downward. [OPL, p. 275]
paraffin
slopes
sand
Sand that wears
obtained
an abbreviation used
[LDO,
p.
one
on
side.
hircite, n.
428]
An amorphous, brown, resinoid, oxygenated hydrocarbon, soluble in sulphuric acid and partly so in alcohol.
[POR]
H.F.W.
Hole full of water; an abbreviation
used in drilling reports. [LDO, p. 428]
H.I.
hire in,
v.i.
To
time." [Heard]
A roustabout who
high,
is
work
is
hard to find
when
to do. [Reported]
n.
p. 66]
high dip
strike
oil.
When
a well
[DO, November
comes
in,
22, 1947]
[Heard]
An
Any downward
which
An
field
hit a bridge
dome. [BA,
cent at
hit, v.t.
To
hide-out, n.
there
</-
hillside
(C 6 H 12 )
from petroleum. [POR]
1.
An
The
[POR]
hexylene, n.
A hydrocarbon
lifting
high power
hill
n.
series.
up
p. 487]
An
ers
drilling
saturated
hydrocarbon
boiling point 209 F.) of the
series.
hitch
hitch
on
To
up
connect the rig and
drilling.
[NO]
make ready
for
\ji
"
hit
hard
it
166
you
hold up nails
live
A common
To work
sand
when
drink. [Heard]
hole, n.
The
HOLE,
drill
n.
hobo
outfit
HOE,
v.).
[Heard]
n.
hogger,
1.
scuffle
holer, n.
n.
driller
who
reports
more footage
hoghead,
1.
n.
a mud pump. 2.
engineer. [Heard]
The head on
engineer; a
mud
An
hog
knot,
double half-hitch. [Heard]
hog
known
[OPL,
to con-
p. 65]
holiday detector
See tattletale. [Heard]
still
is
hoist, n.
A common
field
To
v.t.
possess
tool for
straightening
crooked
borehole. [D]
homocline, n.
A monocline; a succession of beds dipping in one direction. [POR]
works. [D]
hold,
hollow reamer
holding?" [OK]
hold-down-or-up, n.
A rocker on a pull-rod line which keeps
the rod straight with the well. [Heard]
hold the roll
To keep a pipe or a line from rolling
around while it is being put together;
an expression used among refinery pipe
fitters. [Heard]
honest jump
^-V-^jA day's work. "I gave 'era an honest
jump today"; "Another day, another dollar"; and "In a million days I'll be a
millionaire" are often heard in the oil
field at the
p. 138]
hoodoo unit
The Houdry cracking
unit; suggested
hot-ass
167
hook
off
See knock-off
hooks,
joint.
[POR]
n. pi.
or
horse cock,
which
fits
in against the
October
17, 1947]
hootenanny,
bit.
n.
swedge used
particular kind of
3.
a pipe or a hole. 2.
to
drilling
end which
place while
it
hose (q.
is
v.).
[Heard]
riveted.
[BB,
p.
4.
487]
n.
[Heard]
horse-cock a bit
To
the
bit.
end of
[Reported]
horse collar
hoot owl
1.
ream out
mud
[NO]
Pennsylvania.
hookwall packer
tom
horseback, n.
A stratum of rock encountered at a
depth of nineteen feet, below the first
limestone
in
Westmoreland County,
More
often
drill
collars
[Reported]
horse head
hophead,
A drug
n.
addict.
[HOU,
p. 157]
horizon, n.
An
oil-
2.
or gas-bearing zone.
[NO]
horizontal bore
in
Santa
Pennsylvania, in 1886.
to have been
Barbara County
[NO]
[POR]
p.
it
281]
horse thief
driller from a county in Pennsylvania (possibly Clarion) so called particularly by West Virginia oilfielders.
[Heard]
well-boring.
of a conical socket
over the broken part and a
spring latch which grips the part as it
enters. Frequently a flaring mouthpiece
is riveted to the horn socket to convert
it into a bell-mouth socket. [NO]
It consists
slides
horny-handed sons of
toil
on the
hot-air plan
horn socket
which
circle
An
tools,
segment of the
horizontal segment
The horizontal plane between a measuring tape drawn across a tank and the
circular edge of the tank itself. [LDO]
An
steel
138]
successful
oil.
[HOU,
p.
hot bottoms
[ME.
p. 763]
hot bottoms
Hot
still
caused
re-
when
hot-oil act
hot-oil
physician
treatment.
[Heard, Houston,
Texas]
hot job
is
it
machine
through a
a treater
hothouse, n.
A house used in the production of
carbon black by the channel process.
Each house contains a table of reciprocat-
job
p. 490]
line to
which
remove the
William H. Murray of Oklahoma to enand prevent the running of hot oil (q. v.). [Reported]
hot-oil operator
321]
hot
rail
them
ache, 3. [Heard]
hot reflux
Reflux admitted to the tower at the
temperature ordinarily maintained at the
top of the tower. [NB, p. 441]
hot rock
A worker
who
is
Plant mixtures, such as asphaltic conwhich must be spread and compacted in a heated condition. [KOT]
hot-shot truck
A truck used to make short
supplies. [Heard]
hot
contract
oil
came
trips for
hot spot
covering land on
which the title is clouded. Sometimes
applied to a top lease (q. v.). [Reported]
lease
warning
ported]
hot lease
paraffin;
hot-laid mixtures
crete,
was
being considered, and it became connected with violations of proration regulations in any state. [POR] Claude V.
Barrow, of the Daily 0\lahoman, believes he was the first to apply the term
1.
or other elements
pipe.
[OPL,
p. 109]
2.
refining.
of
spot
hustler
169
an area that has all the indications
one in which there
much activity. [DO, January 31, 1948]
tive of
of a productive field
is
hot sticks
Howcoite,
n.
An
H.P.
An
abbreviation
horsepower
for
Hub
of Oildom
The name given
hot tubes
vania, in 1865.
H.U.C.
hot water
Steam. [PO]
An
[GID,
abbreviation
p. 52]
highest
for
useful
[KOT]
hot-water six
six-cylinder automobile.
hull out
[Heard]
To
hot well
1
A well or tank into which hot water
discharged from the condenser. [POR]
2. refining. A tank which holds the light
ends coming off the vacuum jug. [KI]
.
is
hound, n.
A worker who seeks information of
any kind. Used in the compounds lease
hound, roc\ hound, smut hound, etc.
hurry.
[WIN,
p. 138]
peak
at the
Samson
reaches
post. [Reported]
hump up
hundred-foot sand
the
first
sand in Glade,
[Heard]
house,
pumper, L.
1.
made
is
n.
company
which proAnything
such a company
or refinery
petroleum
duces
products.
to specifications of
The
control
room
of a refinery
still.
[Re-
ported]
house brand
1.
trade-marked product of a
fining company.
[SHU,
re-
hurry-up hole
The hole where the kelly connection
is made; so called because it cuts in half
the time consumed in making connections, syn.
Mouse
hurry-up sand
found
p.
158]
2.
ucts)
n.
refinery operator
control
room
housing,
of the
who works
still.
in the
[Reported]
Howco,
[Heard]
A name
at a
name
[Heard]
hustler, n.
n.
trade
hole.
hurry-up stick
n.
The
houseman,
or
hydrated lime
170
hydrated lime
Calcium hydroxide; used
drilling
lost.
mud when
[LDO]
[POR]
hydraulic fluid
A fluid used in hydraulic systems. Low
viscosity, low rate of change of viscosity
with temperature, and low pour point
are desirable characteristics of the fluid,
which may be of petroleum or nonpe-
jack in
ing part
water or
is
oil.
the
mov-
transmitted by a liquid, as
[POR]
specially treated lime which hardens under water; may be used to increase
the plastering quality of drilling mud.
[LDO]
n.
An
hydrocarbon black
See lampblack. [A]
hydrocarbons (paraffin
series
(C n H 2n+2 )
series), n. pi.
petroleum hydrocarbons
including methane, propane,
of
butane, pentane,
etc.
[POR]
hydro-cracking, n.
See destructive hydrogenation. [KE]
hydrofining, n.
erated in such a
hydrogenation,
refining.
manner
high partial
1.
n.
process of
decomposing
oil
[LDO]
1927.
A blown
which pressure on
hydraulic lime
hydro,
hydroline, n.
hydraulic jack
that,
is
op-
while very
oil
which originated
in
Texas
tected
were
the
weak
spots.
River crossings
pounds.
[F, p. 105]
hygrometry, n.
Measurement
of the percentage of
moisture in the air, or the relative humidity of the air. Such a measurement is
of importance in computing oil vapor and
air mixtures, since the moisture in the
[POR]
little
hydroforming,
hypochlorite, n.
A chemical agent made by passing
chlorine gas into caustic soda; sometimes used in refining light petroleum
n.
oils.
[KOT]
illuminating
i7i
oil
I
i.b.p.
An
abbreviation
point (q.
v.).
for
initial
boiling
[KI]
The pulleys
[POR]
idling jet
I.C.C. specifications
ice-machine oil
An oil of low cold
if
Specifications
of
the
Interstate
Com-
oils
test,
refined
i.d.
A common
ameter. [Heard]
idiot
spoon
idiot stick
1.
line.
To run
he'll
ooze
oil
try.
ignition quality
The
upon
in-
[KOT]
ignorant end
The heavy end of a forgy stic\,
wrench, or a pipe. [WIN, p. 138]
ignorant slip
An
an employee
who
ignorant spoon
on whether or not
[POR]
ignorant stick
See idiot stick. [Heard]
idlers, n. pi.
ile,
it
runs smoothly.
n.
An
is still
which
ill-convenient, adj.
Inconvenient. [Reported]
illuminating
Any
oil
oil
immisci ble
172
mixable, as
oil
[LDO]
"make
a picture" of a
can be
made. A lead or wooden block containing wax, run on a horn socket, and allowed to rest on top of the lost tools.
[Heard]
impsonite,
An
n.
asphalt found in
like albertite
pentine.
company
outside
company, or
panies engaged in but a single branch of
the oil industry. [LDO, p. 312]
impression box
tool used to
oil
oil
impression block
n.
any
Originally,
immiscible, adj.
Not
independent,
Oklahoma, much
independent station
marketing. A station which is independently owned and is not operated in
conjunction with others of its kind or
with stations under the same owner-
[SHU,
ship.
p. 148]
indications, n.
pi.
Substances found on the earth's surface which may indicate the presence of
petroleum. Examples are asphaltum, natural gas,
and
films of
oil.
[POR]
[A]
in, adj.
pump
is
[KOT]
[NO]
induced draft
A draft produced by the drawing
Gushing
An
The
When
incher, n.
induction period
The time during distillation when
there is no formation of gum in the oil.
[J]
infusorial earth
inclination drilling
An
boiling point
The temperature
drop of
p.
48]
ser.
used
in
making
[LDO]
increase a spoke
refining. To open a valve. [Reported]
down with
[POR]
production
yielded
n.
at
distillate falls
initial daily
[KOT]
p. 59]
inch, n.
indenometer,
ac-
[POR]
a Halli-
initial
The
production
first
Two
LP's are
re-
Iowa Plan
i73
ported for a well which has been shot or
acidized: LP. natural, and LP. after
shooting or LP. after acidation. [BA, p.
142]
injected gas
The
inspissation, n.
The
insulated flange
pipelining.
the
soil.
it
from
in-
elec-
[Heard]
injection rate
The number
of gallons or barrels of
well
per
minute.
insulating oil
Oil used to insulate and cool the core
[Heard]
and windings
injection well
insurance cheater
[OGJ, November
6,
of transformers.
safety belt
worn by
[KOT]
the derrickman;
1947]
[Heard]
injector, n.
mechanism used
from
inorganic theory
theory that oil and gas do not originate in organic matter, but in hydrocarbonaceous, gaseous, volcanic emana-
[LDO]
well through which gas or air
dominating position in
affin base.
farm
losses
ticides are
made.
and
in the
development of insect
24-26]
number
The measure
saturated
compounds
in the
inside helper
room. [Heard]
[J]
Iowa Plan
tem
the control
sys-
oil.
iodine value
insecticidal oil
refining.
of iodine absorption by
under standard test conditions; serves
an indication of the quantity of un-
or instrument
of
iodine
as
insec-
containers
oil
where
[KI]
invisible loss
37]
section of a refinery
312]
inversion, n.
The
p.
intermediate base
Any mixture of the three regular bases.
See asphalt base, aromatic base, and par-
is
insect
[LDO,
branches of
all
input well
large oil
the industry.
shale furnaces.
[POR]
tions.
company
integrated
into
emergency
originated by
meet the
to
of the anti-chain-store
ment. [SHU,
p. 166]
move-
LP.
174
LP.
wrench rods
an
abbreviation
used in drilling reports. [LDO, p. 428]
Initial
production;
rig-floor
who
worker
equipment. [Reported]
ported]
isoclinal, adj.
Irish
buggy
wheelbarrow. [Heard]
isomate,
The
Irish confetti
direction.
[POR]
n.
[KE]
iso-octane, n.
Hydrocarbon
showing
100
octane
when determining
the
octane
number
motor fuels. It is isomeric with normal octane, therefore it has the same
chemical formula (C 8 H 18 ). [KOT]
of
iron hat
up
handles heavy
brick. [Reported]
iron, n.
in
to speed
I.P.A.A.
An
and
or tubing
iron horse
isopropyl alcohol
Alcohol (C 3 7 OH, boiling point 207
F.) which is manufactured from the unhydrocarbon propylene. Its
saturated
acetate is widely used in the lacquer in-
53]
dustry as a solvent.
The
on
iron
iron peddler
A supply salesman. [Reported]
[KOT]
itchy fever
See brake fever. [Heard]
iron pile
Any
it is
the best
iron roustabout
A tool with rotary
ITINERANT WORKER
See bindlestiff, boomer, drifter,
payday boy, three-day hand.
It's
jaws,
used
to
the
An
oil
floater,
that counts
oil-field
J
jack, n.
An
jack
which moves
circle;
on
steel-toothed
[D]
jackassable, adj.
Impassable; an expression used by mule
jackbird
A connection which needs to be oiled;
so called because of the noise a "dry"
connection makes." Also called crybaby.
[Heard]
jack boards
drilling. Braces used to support pipe
1.
jacks, pipelining. 2.
early days.
[OPL,
Hand
p.
3.
device
used on a screw line, set with iron projections to enable the jack/nan to hold the
pipe steady. [Heard]
jack-pump,
the
main
(q. v.).
with a slack
line.
The
jack-squib, n.
type of torpedo.
To
up
like a jackknife.
v.i.
3.
To
[Heard]
[Heard]
side.
[Heard]
Jacom's
The
staff
fishing tool.
staff.
[BO]
fold
jack latch
frame. [Heard]
A
which folds up,
easy moving.
v.t. 2.
2.
Jacob's staff
rotary-rig derrick
or jac\\nifes, for
called the
Jacob's ladder
jackknife, n.
[NO]
jack
jacket, n.
1.
[NO]
jack shaft
[LDO]
line.
jack-saddle, n.
jack
n.
pump
jack-boot off
To
jack posts
used in
tools
105]
Jakehamon
75
pump.
corruption
[POR]
[Heard]
jack lines
Power
lines
to the wells
1.
jackman, n.
The worker on a screw pipe line who
carries the jack and places it under the
pipe for support while the connection
p. 59] 2.
In Okla-
[LDO]
p. 8]
To
jake, n.
which
is
it
v.).
[Reported]
Jakehamon, n.
A town in Texas built by Jake L. Hamon, a railroad man, to provide a ready
outlet for oil produced in Desdemona,
Texas. [RI, p. 162]
jake head
176
jake head
jar socket
bum;
usually one
drunk on Jamaica
double and
men
see
See skid-row
ty-
"makes married
it
feel single."
of
form
one rein
jeep, n.
Every
share of jake-leg
walk with a cane. [Heard]
its
to catch
by drink-
of paralysis caused
v.).
[NO]
side varieties.
jake leg
jars.
jar-tongue socket
A fishing tool used
of broken jars. [NO]
one rein
There are center and
broken
jamin action
"jeep" and took its name from that animal, because it, too, "could not tell a
jeeper, n.
they suffer
sure,
jamin
The
causing a
1.
jeep
distortion,
resistance to flow, or
..
effect
resistance offered to flow
by
al-
much used
term
reservoir.
or natural
n.
and mocha.
[OK]
jerk, n.
1.
drill
See
shiftless, irresponsible
by impact;
[D]
worker.
2.
hanger-on. [Reported]
pump
n.
n.
pipelining.
device used in lifting
pipe out of the ditch. [Heard]
the
of
double-acting,
piston type,
jar, v.t.
To
mounted on
jerker
jamoke,
The
jenny,
in discussions
of oil extraction
[Heard]
lie."
is
inside-packed,
built for a
sure of 600 to
jar.
jarhead, n.
rotary drillers,
driller in
who
by early
jerk line
1.
line
wheel crank
jar-knocker, n.
fishing tool.
spud
[NO]
jars, n. pi.
In well-drilling,
the
connection
be-
made
two links
which slide on each other from six to
thirty-six inches and permit the tools to
fall on the downstroke, but jar them or
give them a sharp jerk on the upstroke
tending to loosen them from any crevices
or cavings. [NO]
cables
in the
[POR]
line.
2.
form
of
jerk-line
swing
one power
to
pump more
jerk-rope, n.
See jerk
line.
[NO]
to change
and enable
wells.
[Heard]
Also
jerk shoe
A device used to guide the drilling
line
when spudding
in.
[Heard]
jet-black, n.
Lampblack. [D]
jet
air or gas.
jitney, n.
it
To pump
joint
77
[Reported]
that
jet
jump
A pump
which moves
fluid
by bring-
ing it into contact with a rapidly moving stream of fluid of the same or different kind, the motion being imparted
through friction. [D]
[D]
down
to
fifteen
feet
threw
their
improvement
of
this
of hinging a small
An
system consisted
wooden
an entire
service
so
string. [KI]
jobber, n.
[SHU,
tions.
p. 147]
jockey stick
A wooden rod (usually one inch in diameter and eight feet in length) extending from the headache post to the wireline drilling clamps; used to prevent the
clamps from turning during the drilling
One end is fastened to the
clamps, and the other is hinged to the
headache post by running it through a
post. As the wire line rises and falls, the
stick rides
jigging
The conveyor
filter to filter
of a pipe.
jig, v.t.
To
may
it
it.
staging to
the derrick by one of its sides and suspending the other from the pole. Then
the workers stood on the staging and
brought the pole up and down by shifting their weight from one side of the
Johnny
ball
strain insulator
on an
electric line.
[Heard]
Johnny Newcome
An early name for
oil regions. [NO]
newcomer
to the
Johnson bar
from
Johnson-bar
idiot
[Heard]
joint, n.
1.
The
is
made
other
member
of the string.
joint
consists
of
cone, a pin,
(box).
2.
and
to an-
complete
threaded truncated
a corresponding coupling
ing, usually
jointed pig
178
two pipe
5.
jointed pig
scraper
go through
up
pipelining.
together.
To weld two
[WIL,
joints of pipe
p. 164]
[D]
The box
in
journal-oil, n.
is
used on
[NO]
An
socket.
[PE]
to the
upper out-
jug handles
of petroleum from
condensing which
continues in the tank. The tank gets its
name from the shape of the pipes. [KIJ
of pipes
like
so called because
it
(q. v.)
n.
connecting two or
above ground. [Heard]
series of fittings
more
lines
jump-spark system
high-tension electric system; an elecignition system in
which a high
ten-
electrodes
and produce an
electric
spark in the midst of a combustible mixture. This is the system generally in use
today on automobile, airplane, and similar gasoline engines. Batteries with spark
coils or high tension magnetos supply
jump
[POR]
the saddle
The
which
it
moves. [S]
^^f^-
jungle up
To camp
early pipeliners
ing and
who were
made camp
tired of
work-
camp out
junk, n.
Debris or equipment
[BB, p. 487]
junk a hole
To abandon
stacles that
it
more
lost
in a well.
make
finishing or operating
costly than
its
apparent income
warrants. [PE]
jug hustler
The member
in
[Heard]
jug handle
sets
or a claim
[D]
axle
tank attached
shaped
which carry light ends
the still and begin the
who
mine
jug, n.
slang.
his instru-
jump-drilling
See rope-drilling. [Heard]
the current.
J tool
2.
jump a pin
To break off
tric
journals.
of a
up
journal-box, n.
1.
by
jump-over,
Jolly balance
spring balance used in determining
densities by weighing in water and air.
lets
jump a claim
To take possession
set
[Heard]
joint
crew
and helps
of a seismograph
v.,
1)
junk basket
bailer used
to pick
up junk
iron,
i79
screws, etc. that have fallen in the well.
junk hustler
A dump
junk
[Heard]
bit
tool used to clean out a well after
shooting, or to
remove collapsed or
junk
rig,
which
bits.
pile
sliv-
the
is
or
unit,
worn
machinery
of
piece
[Heard]
out.
K
Kauri butanol value
made on
lacquer solvents
to determine their solvent property for
special test
gums. [KOT]
kelly, n.
kelly cock
valve
which
fits
is
v.i.
[Heard]
kelly driver
to
as the trade-mark.
KEROSENE, n.
See American
kelly hole
carbon
power kerosene,
kelly joint
kelly stopcock
kerogen, n.
A term somewhat loosely used to
include the whole group of wax-like
substances that are intermediate between
the original organic material and the oil.
[D]
kerosene,
n.
oil,
kerosene,
Gesner, the
[NO]
paraffin
case
oi',
export
oil,
coal
burning oil,
domestic
oil,
kerosene,
kerosine,
solidified kerosene.
kerosene
Abraham
white.
kerosene engine
the
form
combustion chamber in
of a spray at the
compression stroke.
[POR]
end of the
180
kerosene shale
key-seated, adj.
kerosene shale
Any bituminous
illuminating
from which
or oil shale
may
has been or
oil
be ob-
[POR]
tained.
Descriptive of a hole in
hangs
1.
distillate.
kerotenes,
The
vertical
of a hole. [D]
[D]
bit
2.
kerosine, n.
A variant
which the
removed. [Heard]
it is
key-seating, n.
kerosene stock
See kerosene
as
form
of \erosene.
[POR]
n. pi.
key-well system
A system by which one well is drilled
specifically for pumping the water out
of the oil sand, thereby considerably in-
[H,
[Heard]
p. 324]
kick, n.
key, n.
The
1.
starting
quality
of
gasoline.
Blended gasoline has more starting power than straight-run gasoline, particularly
casing-head gasoline is one of the conGasoline made from light fractions has more starting power than that
made from heavier fractions. [BOW, p.
if
stituents.
127]
v.i. 2.
To
flow
oil;
said of a well.
kicker-board method
key bed
See key rock. [D]
key horizon
The
strata
chosen to
work out
the
whether or not the bed is conformable with those in which oil may be
found.
Also \ey bed, \ey roc\, and
marker bed. [BA, p. 67]
A method of cable-tool drilling whereby the well is kicked down. See kicking
down, 1. Also called the Canadian pole
or Galician method. [LDO, p. 375]
kick hole
To
learn
kicking
1.
key paste
down
method
of
drilling
which
in-
identifi-
cause
[KI]
key rock
drill a well;
p. 38]
it
is
which meas-
To
work
drill
a well
really
kick
1.
is
[NO]
v.i.
making
off, v.i.
To
is
knock
101
v.t. 2.
To
the
starting
first
used possibly
gas flow
of
which
it
is
sibility that a
line, air
ly.
ly.
kick up
l.To increase allowable. [Heard;
DO,
kidney, n.
A kidney-shaped valve on a separator
which controls the gas pressure. [Heard]
refining.
Rock
Oil
Kingfish, n.
One
January
[WIN,
p.
King
of the Wildcatters
Colonel A. E. Humphreys, who discovered the Mexia, Texas, oil field.
[HOO, frontispiece] 2. James McClurg
1.
4.
[KOT]
kitten, n.
A small
caterpillar tractor.
[Heard]
kittens.
kitty, n.
n.
To remove
paraffin
from
a well with
1,
1852.
[BOW,
p. 7]
kieselguhr, n.
district superintendent.
138]
knife a well
used international-
An
float
trol
Kier's
is
[KOT]
pressure
[KI]
kidney
The
more
kinematic viscosity
A fundamental method of determin-
is
[Heard]
[KOT]
a well
knitting needle
A device with which a sand line
be spliced. [Heard]
knobstones,
A name
formation.
knock,
may
n. pi.
Kentucky
in
[NO]
n.
The sound
in the cylinder of
nal-combustion
engine
caused
an interby the
\>
(j
knock
[82
bit off
too-rapid burning of
some
of the gases of
knock
test of gasoline
number
knock
made
test
of gasoline.
To remove
[Heard]
to the stem.
knot,
1.
n.
knock down
knocker,
1.
oil
a pipe.
separate oil
from water.
Heard
n.
resembles a knot on
obstruction of any kind in
[NO]
2.
One
mer. [BB,
p.
of the
ham-
2.
An
it
KNOT,
See jar-knocker.
boll weevil's
of collar because
To
[KOT]
bit off
See
n.
cat,
cat's
ass,
486-87]
knowledge bench
knock-off block
A device used to unclamp a jack well
it
connect the
is
necessary to dis-
[POR]
line.
off the
To blow
[OK]
ceases to
knock-off joint
A joint used to disconnect the rod line
from the pumping power. When a well
has been pumped off there is no need to
continue to operate the pump, but the
central power must run on to pump other
wells, and the provision of such a joint
knock
driller.
Christmas tree
off the
occurs on a well
Christmas tree
when
there
is
so
fittings;
sudden
it
knowledge box
The box in which
knowledge
stick
knuckle-buster, n.
1. A
wrench. [Heard] 2. A valve
wrench which, because of its narrow hold
and close quarters, often slips, causing
bruised or skinned knuckles. [KI]
knuckle joint
A
an
old-style
sand
reel.
[NO]
kosmos burner
knockout,
n.
A dehydrator
knock
stick
commonly a piece of a
pick handle, used to knock the T screw
on the yoke at the lower end of the
temper screw while the walking beam
is in motion. The purpose of the blow is
to tighten or loosen the yoke on the main
screw, syn. Billy club. [POR]
short club,
of illuminating
oils.
[POR]
Kutter's formula
A formula for estimating the flow of
water in rivers and canals, and sometimes modified for estimating the flow
through long pipes with slow velocity
K.V.A.
An
[POR]
abbreviation
of
kjlovolt-ampere.
law of capture
i8 3
L
richer than the land pitch in bituminous matter and is soluble in petroleum
spirit. [A]
is
[LDO,
reports.
in drilling
p. 428]
bore] n
A unit of land measure used in Texas.
[Heard]
labor
[la
1^
lamp, Hefner
is
[POR]
laborer, n.
1. A beginning pipeliner. 2. A new
employee at a refinery. See boll weevil,
farmer, pea picker, cotton picker. [Heard]
lampblack, n.
A product burned from natural gas or
oil under plates or rolls. [D]
lacquer, n.
lamp-burning
dressing for
wood
or metal
which
of nitrocellulose, resinous
consists
gum
all
and thinned
[POR]
soiled
dove
Oklahoma;
so
thinner.
(q. v.)
named
dissolved
ac-
covering placed on a
pulley to increase its diameter, its driving power, or the efficiency of its wearing power. [NO]
jacket or
type of
sand-pump
reel.
illuminating
oils
in
oil
land,
v.)
the term
is
v.t.
To
1.
fix
landman,
n.
man whose business is to secure leases for his company. [BA, p. 85]
lease
of
South
worth of
oil.
[HOO,
p. 164]
[NO]
latch jack
lag screw
lamp
a billion dollars'
lag reel
test
made on
lagging, n.
The
test
from Ragtown,
because she
[NO]
bail of a bailer.
laid length
The
[NO]
on
latch
To catch a pipe
is
1.
side.
an
irrigation canal.
[POR]
law of capture
lake pitch
lateral, adj.
It
The
184
in
The
of a reacting substance
any
moment
to
its
proportional at
is
active mass.
[PORj
laying cat
A side-boom caterpillar tractor used
in laying a pipe line.
strung. Their work has largely been supplanted by a pipe-laying machine, syn.
Tong gang. [Heard; BA, p. 179]
The
When
regular-lay,
right-lay
layout, n.
is
When
[POR]
lay an egg
1.
To
blast. 2.
To
shoot a well.
in
chart of a refinery
process for any given charge. Also called
3.
To
LAY
1.
n.
on a rack
failure in business.
[NO]
and
lay
is
it
complet ed.
1.
The
laying
down
rig. 2.
[WO,
of a jackknife der-
moving
or sliding a
gin pole which can be raised or
lowered. [Heard]
lay in
To put a pipe line in
its bed. This opoften performed before daylight when the pipe has cooled off and
eration
PIPE LINE
pipelining.
Hand
1.
[OPL,
p. 105]
The bench
to
floor
on which
may
rest
visitors
and workmen
lazy board
1. A board placed under the last pipe
laid in a line to support it while the next
connection is made; used in mailing up
and breaking out pipe. [Heard] 2. A
board above the derrick floor from which
pipe is stabbed into the well. So called
because the stabber works spasmodically.
[OK]
is
uses.
lay tongs
1.
evi-
layer, n.
its
lazy bench
lay-down job
rick preparatory to
of
stovepipe.
v.t. 2.
single lengths
some
2.
laydown,
v.)
To
rope.
When
it
an alignment.
is
localization of
[PE]
1.
1.
pipelining.
The
lay, n.
p. 59]
Lawrence condenser
refining. A flat box made from two
sheets of corrugated metal placed close
together and joined at the edges. [POR]
[OPL,
laying gang
[F,
lazy tongs
A
ing
[NO]
i8 5
L. D. D.
Later drilled deeper; an abbreviation
used in drilling reports. [LDO, p. 428]
made.
leaded up
Descriptive
which con-
gasolines
of
[SHU,
p. 158]
leading, [ledding] n.
method
clearance.
The
and a
ground
is
The
tanks. 2.
1.
tools, utensils,
and
of
payment of
accessories in drilling
3.
block meth od
on oil land by which the royalty is arranged on a sliding-scale basis, a
fixed rate of royalty being paid on all
oil produced up to a certain amount,
and afterwards a lower rate for all production in excess of this amount. [POR]
lease,
LDO,
5).
1.
The
legal estate in
[NO]
of property
lease
ployee of an
who
pipelining.
lean
Oil
centrifugal
pump
drain.
p. 172]
oil
generally
lubricating
moved; used
oil,
has
been
p. 101]
re-
in a casing-head gasoline
lease;
hand granted by a
The holding
from
1947,
1.
on
an eman inde-
pendent operator.
syn.
Landman.
company
2.
or
[S]
methods
lease
a sample or a tank of
[WIL,
hound
One who
1.
p. 31]
up
by
of a lease (q.
p. 438]
[POR]
[Heard, BA,
>
lease boss
from
lead-tong man
The roughneck on a rotary crew
rr
lease
leasehold, n.
to the tank.
\S\
^J
F, p. 113]
is
ing purposes. 4. A legal document executed between the land owner as lessor
and another party as lessee, granting the
right to exploit the premises or mineral
or other products. [POR] 5. The property occupied by each producer. [Heard;
v.,
lead [led]
gasoline
rent. 2.
the
and
determinate period
power
lease, n.
on consideration
lead, n.
lease
oil
produced up
to
certain
amount
rate
is
lease
A
erty
power
3~
:86
leaser
procures
[D]
leases.
lease storage
[LDO,
p.
498]
lease tank
oil
is
let die
syn.
A
left
Field
[Heard]
her go
To
let
cable in
to
V-
To
to
lift
[D]
[FO,
let
full
force
p. 116]
her rip
To
let
\*
on
To
trough
made
rude
three, five, or
more
out screw
To
sides or
reef or anticline.
[D]
wings of a saddle
2.
The
legs of a
derrick. [D]
drilling,
swing
A command
to shut a well
the tools in the hole. [Heard]
down with
leveling, n.
To
The
principal
altitudes,
method
of
measuring
between different
tain
lenses, n. pi.
lines.
[H,
p. 147]
lensing, n.
let
legs, n. pi.
(1865).
oil
of six-inch boards
World.
The two
r"'
[Heard]
LEGENDARY FIGURE
1.
from the
the oil
formation. [Reported]
regular-lay cable
laid
interval.
n.
no more force
monkey wrench
stratigraphic
[POR]
is
left-handed
from
it
gathering system,
pipe-line
leptometer,
sampled
taken by the
the
in
[D]
leaser, n.
One who
variation
ground and to
[OPL,
p. 50]
LEVER, n.
See casing pole, cheater, dog wrench,
extra hand, helper, mope pole, nigger,
ligroin
[87
persuader, physics stick, pinch bar, snipe,
star post.
p. 68]
leverman,
n.
rider, clutch
stomper,
and Johnson-bar
idiot.
who
ers,
rotary system
gin
popper, hydraulic jack, jenny, little boom,
pipe jack, pipe trolley, rat-hole elevator,
winch.
specs, spectacles,
paraffin-base crude.
[BOW,
p. 99]
light distillate
in
key
1947,
6,
light crude
[Heard]
lie
LIFTING DEVICE
See boom, boom
December
tool
when
The
lighter fractions of
an
oil.
[KI]
light fraction
an oil well
The number of years a well produces,
depending upon the rate of production,
the shifting of the formation, and other
of
life
The
conditions.
[LDO]
preserver
An
for the
headache post
safety belt
worn by
the derrickman.
[Heard]
made on
determine the
er oils to
oil.
test
transform-
stability of the
[KOT]
lift, n.
1.
The
vertical
movement
of the drill-
it
tools.
is
[POR]
lifter
roof
2.
Any
pipe-line JL
oxidation
on
1.
The name given by Professor B.
Silliman to a grade of petroleum in 1865.
light
life test
An
lightning slingers
Telegraph operators
crew. [Heard]
[NO]
lifesaver, n.
A name
stone found at a depth of 520 feet in Butler County, Pennsylvania, in 1876. [NO]
light oil
name
[NO]
early
(q. v.).
lighting rock
light
Baume
scale.
one
well producing
little oil.
[NO]
petroleum
vides the expansible vapor space to permit the air-vapor mixture above the
stored liquid to expand and contract,
try as a solvent.
which pro-
[POR]
like a goose
like a goose,
.
wakes up
in a
new world
every day
An
used
expression
stupid
or
describe
to
person.
forgetful
[WIN,
a
p.
138]
limb, n.
The
strata
on one
side of
an anticlinal
well which produces from a limestone formation. [N, 21, No. 49, Decem4, 1929, p.
77]
limestone, n.
1. The general name for sedimentary
rock composed essentially of calcium
carbonate. 2. The popular and technical
name
all
bulk in
their
oil.
[POR]
__
LINE, n.
cable-laid
rope,
calf
line,
casing
forked
rope.
line
[Heard]
lined out
Descriptive of a still which is operating according to orders. [Reported]
which is put into the well to prevent sand from falling into the bottom
of the well and to prevent oil from draining down and exposing the sand. It keeps
sand saturated and prevents the formation of scale that would retard the flow
of oil into the well.
of greatest inclination of a
oil
may
over-
[NO]
tions.
linerider, n.
The
pipeliner
who
inspects
the pipe
when
[OPL,
p. 123]
line squib
type of torpedo.
[NO]
line-up, n.
[Heard]
linewalker, n.
tion
is
pump
dropped by parachute
[Heard]
to
each
station.
line well
^^S^V
A
oil
lining
The
up
first
step in
boom
line pipe
special
The
etc.
line of dip
from
line
also sub-
is
It differs
face
line-up
burner
The
pipe
test.
standard pipe in that it is always lapwelded, the couplings are longer, and
the ends of both couplings and tubes are
always reamed. [D]
tomobile
The
Brigg's standard.
jected to a higher
liner, n.
lime producer
ber
recessed
proper
tractors
size. It
the
petroleum used
oil.
[POR]
liquefaction of gases
them
The
to their critical
process
is
tempera-
carried out
com-
gasoline plants.
and natural-
[POR]
[POR]
liquid asphalt
An
liquid
is
from casing-head
gas,
the gas
gas.
[POR]
petroleum gas
Liquefied condensates from natural gas
or from the casing-head gas of oil wells,
liquefied
made by
[POR]
liquid air
explosives. Success
of liquid-air ex-
narily contains a
much
lighter percen-
test
at
normal temperature.
bituminous material
Bituminous material which shows a
penetration at normal temperature, under a load of 50 grams applied for one
second, of
its
to liquid
penetration
liquefied gas
air.
how
ing on
[KOT]
gasoline
is
vaporizes
Gas converted
of
as a substitute for
cooling
tage
The
liquid air
linseed substitute
liquid gold
89
more than
350.
[POR]
liquid flow
through which
it
passes.
[POR]
liquid fuels
cohol.
[POR]
liquid gas
gas,
liquid gold
name
popular
for petroleum.
refining. Tetraethyl
lead; so called because of its cost. [KI]
1.
[HOO,
p. 50]
2.
liquid-level control
190
liquid-level control
manner
in such a
[POR]
Lizzie Toppling
See Toppling, Lizzie.
reports.
load, n.
parent
fluid,
[D]
ly.
liquid-phase cracking
A cracking process in which heat and
pressure are applied to an oil while it is
in a liquid state. [BA, p. 205]
litholine, n.
registered
name
for petroleum.
[POR]
little
and heavy
materials.
[Heard]
man
a driller
[NO]
and liquid
mud
or oil
as a result of equalization of
pressure. [Heard]
load factor
may
example,
say to a worker who is hav-
Man's Paradise
Water or
2.
was
loaded string
inch
Little
casing
load-binder, n.
boom
small side-boom used in lifting pipe
little
its
Lnr.
liquid petrolatum
in the
lot
or
The
maximum power
to the
engines,
the
power taken
available at the
percentage
the
of
total
load.
load indicator
An instrument used to indicate the
load upon a line attached to the hoist in
a derrick; a pull rod or a sucker rod of
a pumping well. [POR]
loading racks
live oil
Oil that carries entrapped or formagas. The gas bubbles which con-
tion
oil.
an
[POR]
before
it
oil
steam
Steam which comes direct from the
boiler and retains its full power of expansion; distinguished from exhaust
An
elevated
from
the top.
fill
tank
load
livered oil
Jelly-like
1.
cars. 2.
tank cars
fill
[POR]
oil
Oil used
10,
1947]
live
load water
Water used
acidizing.
to
prime
[DO, November
well
11,
after
1947]
long-tailed engine
191
LOAF, v.i.
See chasing the canine, chasing the
dog, dog
LOAFER,
it,
rester.
loafer rail
To
3.
v.t.
keep a
LOG, n.
See boring journal, doghouse dope,
dopebook, driller's log, drilling journal,
geolograph, oil log, seismograph log,
n.
[Heard]
logging.
[NO]
swindle sheet.
log, v.t.
To
drill,
Loc.
an
Location;
drilling reports.
used
abbreviation
[LDO,
in
on cement.
p. 428]
[Heard]
location, n.
1. A placer-miner claim (1887) which
covered twenty acres, not just the space
required for one well. [T, p. 164] 2.
spot where a well is to be drilled. [POR]
3. The usual distance between wells in
fields where wells are spaced according
logy, adj.
The condition of casing which has become difficult to raise or lower because
of outside friction. [POR]
to a fixed distance:
line
tions
is
to antedate
said
pression.
[BA,
the
Hollywood
ex-
p. 98]
and
tric layers
is
disposed to
lie
in concen-
[POR]
lock nut
1. A nut placed on a parallel-threaded
portion of pipe at a joint in order to stop
leaks by means of a grommet, a gasket,
nut used to make a
or a packing. 2.
joint where the long screw or lock-nut
nipple has been run through the tank,
the lock nuts being used to wedge against
the tank
on
signal
may
either side.
be pulled in
which
is
when
dicator:
The term
is
derived
the
weight
passes
in-
the
Long John
The
stationary,
was used
to furnish
power
for drilling
pipelining.
more miles
[WIL,
long.
p. 89]
long residuum
A dewaxed,
filtered,
Pennsylvania
[KOT]
The
boiler
thjit__die_drick
oil.
very
viscous
long string
[D]
locomotive-type boiler
which warns
locked-wire rope
A rope with a round, smooth surface,
the wires of which are turned to such a
shape that each one interlocks with the
others
weight on a drilling
than the derrick will support.
n. 2.
last string of
casing to be set in
and
[POR]
self-contained
sand. [Heard]
long-tail, n.
log, n.
1.
gives
detailed
drilling
record which
thickness,
and
tailed
engine,
Maud. [BB,
pouch,
p. 488]
long-tailed engine
p.
488]
and
Old
long-time burning
192
oil
often preferred
as
signal oil
and
is
[TH]
taw
[Heard]
lose a
lose
bottom
when
look-box,
main marble.
(of hole)
Said
mudded
long tongs
Long-handled wrenches used to screw
parts of a pipe line together; an early
pipelining term. [WIL, p. 53]
to lose one's
is
15,
1947]
lose circulation
syn. Lose returns. [Heard]
y\^
>4n
hole
n.
To
lose the
To
let
down
To go
loop, n.
pipelining.
1.
section of a line
which
November
1947]
14,
warm
it,
lose returns
To
loss
1.
p. 167]
lose a hole
See
drilling impossible.
[Heard]
lose a marble
To become, or act as
come, insane. [Heard]
lose a
the
2.
An
loving cup
if
A
field
chamber
in every
taw
To become
show
[KOT]
Lovibond tintometer
a borehole because of con-
which make
lost hole.
asphalts to
loose pipe
Pipe nominally two inches in diameter
and more than two feet in length. [OPL,
To abandon
on heating
test made on
lost hole
up.
loose line-herder
A truck driver. [Reported]
ditions
lose the
hole; the
extent of volatilization.
LOOSEN A CONNECTION
See heat
broke. [Reported]
To
room
p. 55]
VV\
lug
193
low-boiling fractions
1. The fractions of petroleum that rise
quickly to the upper reaches of the stills.
[BA, p. 201] 2. The lightest members
or fractions of petroleum which have
the highest vapor pressure and therefore
the lowest boiling point. [KI]
low
used
equipment. [Heard]
trailer
to
move heavy
'
low dip
[POR]
low-end point
The
vaporizing
their
and do not
still. [KL]
applied
is
top of a
lowering-in-gang
The workers who finish the connections on a pipe line and lower the line
into the ditch. [Heard]
down, go
run a swab,
casing, follow
line, string.
on him." [Reported]
lower valve
See standing valve. [POR]
low-test gas
third-grade gasoline
[SHU,
p. 158]
L.P.
oils
be made. [BA,
p. 228]
1.
material, especially
Any
gas
oils
until
wax
still
appears.
re-
which follows
2.
3.
distillation,
petroleum
To
fill
v.t.
mud-laden
a well with
The
liquid
is
fluid to
introduced
chamber
ar-
[POR]
lubricating grease
tar,
oils,
mica,
etc.
oil,
magnesium
[POR]
wagon
(talcum),
silicates
2, 3.
[POR]
Lucas, n.
A well-known gusher struck at Spindletop near Beaumont, Texas, in January,
1901, at a depth of 1,050 feet. Named for
the driller, Captain Anthony F. Lucas.
This well marked the advent of oil production in quantity in the United States.
[POR]
L.P.G.
pull.
greases,
special line
[Re-
1.
lube, n.
of lubricant. [Heard]
Now
it
to pull
gave more
obsolete. [Reported]
lug, n.
ported]
form
friction,
fining.
distillate
grease, or
oil,
used to decrease
graphite,
luff line
[POR]
short
with the
p. 35]
lube stock
See lubricant,
[BA,
lubricating oil
boom
To
An
greases.
of lime-soaps, rosin
men
Men who work
lowering in
lower the
and
lubricate,
See
refining.
lubricant, n.
low boy
lube-house
large, ball-like
knob by which a
lug-loader
194
which
dump body
the
supported in
2.
transit.
A connection.
(the bucket) is
See lug-loader. [KI]
[SI, p. 154]
trade
to
the
fit
n.
name
inducing
respiration
in
cases
of
with
truck
A
for
lug-loader, n.
lungmotor,
joints
built
chassis
and
[D]
M
macadam aggregate
Aggregate the particles of which are
screened to a uniformly coarse size.
[KOT]
mail-poucher,
macaroni,
n.
Pipe; generally used in the expressions to shoc\ macaroni (to rack pipe),
rac\s of macaroni (lengths of pipe
stacked in the derrick), or string of
1.
n.
main shaft
The band-wheel shaft. [D]
main sill
The sill which extends from
under the derrick
upon
yond
floor,
where
a point
it
rests
sill,
the
macaroni tubing
See macaroni. [PE]
machine
major,
oil
tion
machine thread
fine thread
on a
bolt.
[Heard]
Magic City
Pithole, Pennsylvania (1865-66).
n.
^7^
large oil
make,
n.
company. [WIL,
p.
215]
~\-^
[J]
[SM,
gallons of gasoline,
kerosene." [KI]
40,000
gallons
of
p. 93]
make
To
a connection
fit another section of
into the stem in the hole. [S]
mail pouch
See
long-tail.
[BB,
p. 488]
Mail Pouch
friend
make
To
seed
Willie
Withers (q.
[WIN,
v.)
so called
a hand
be a competent,
p. 138]
drill
efficient
stem
worker.
Man
i95
drilled.
has
p. 490]
ignition
system of ignition used
upon some gas or gasoline engines which
depend alternately upon the completing
and the breaking of an electric circuit.
An
electric
a connection (the
connections are always single). After the
connection is made, one joint is drilled
and the kelly is again made down. [WIN,
p. 138]
[POR]
make-and-break rotary
A rotary machine designed to make
and unmake screwed tool joints or casing. [POR]
make through
To penetrate
make a pull
To pull pipe
make
To
[Heard]
bits or cones.
a spool
roll
up
one's clothes
to leaving a location.
The
preparatory
roll of cloth-
V^ \S
make time
To get a
job
done
from
a well
make a well
To drill a well which becomes
a pro-
make footage
To drill. [DO, November 14, 1947]
make hole
vA^
To gain depth in drilling a well. [NO]
make it up one more wrinkle
To screw pipe another turn; a wrinkle
is
make location
To fix the spot for
make macaroni
To blow up as a
schedule. [Reported]
make-up wrench
The wrench used
in
making
the pipe
male connection
male
[Heard]
joint
which
joint
mallet
which
result of too
much
which breaks
slips into,
or
is
covered
[Heard]
drill-stem test."
made
of
log,
maltha,
[NO]
n.
asphalt
1947]
MAKESHIFT,
make up time
To get back on
mall, n.
[Re-
drilling. [S]
oil
in a hurry.
ported]
make a trip
To pull a
acidizers
make up
To screw
it
formation;
and run
or machinery un-
n.
[POR]
See boar's nest, bootleg packer, poorboy core barrel, poor-boy level, poor-boy
Man,
and
n.
pipelining.
fires.
hires
^4^
^
manak
196
manak, n.
The genuine brea
found in
Uvalde County, California. [PE]
that
is
mandrel socket
An
implement used
grasp casing
which has collapsed or broken. [NO]
manhead,
to
n.
manhole,
n.
manifold,
many
branches or
[POR]
man on
the pot
8 or
more
[POR]
first time
such a method was effectively used to
accelerate the production of oil. [POR]
marine-engine oil
Petroleum oil compounded with blown
rapeseed oil; used for lubricating the
crankshafts of marine engines. [KOT]
marine
An
oil
illuminating
used on ships; a
oil
and
any gas
incandescent
therefore,
its
and
(225 F.)
gravity
specific
marker,
n.
distinctive stratum
which
indicates
manus
An
mantle burner
of
2-A inch
4-6 inch
6-8 incl.
Marietta process
test
p. 65]
less
0-10
10-20
20-25
25-30
30-35
Depth of Well in
Thousands of Feet
up to 2 inch
Barrels
n.
outlets.
as fol-
condensed
is
lows:
may
tester
marline, n.
A small rope
made
of
[BB, p.
two strands
[POR]
marlinespike
A round, tapered, sharp
steel
pin used
manway,
marsh buggy
An
n.
marbles, n. pi.
1. Agates used for perforating pipe. 2.
Steel balls used as perforating shells.
[Heard; DO, October 30, 1947] 3. slang.
to lose one's marbles: to
become
insane.
[Heard]
marginal well
A term used
Splicing needle.
[POR]
^"V\"
marily
to
swampy
areas.
transport
crews
through
[Heard]
marsh gas
Y'
mast, n.
A long pole or tube rising in a
position to support
vertical
some member
of a
derrick,
syn.
[POR]
frame.
mastic, n.
A mixture of fine mineral matter and
bituminous material; used in highway
construction and
for
application
in
heated condition. The material is prepared for use in paving by mixing hot
powder,
with such proportion of hot bitumen
ground
to a fine
[POR1
Mastic which is melted and laid without being rolled or compacted under
[POR]
cial
joint
Matheson
force a
vantage
that
is
it
and
sleeve,
Matheson
saddle.
[POR]
commonly used
Medium-curing
abbreviation
for
asphalt. [KI]
McMichael viscosity
A test made to show
the extent of
characteristics or
consistency of
fibrous
fiber-base greases
on
a special spindle
lubricant rotates.
MEASURE,
[KOT]
n.
tom, drop a
measure
v.t.
bot-
line,
out,
in,
in,
See
gage,
gravimeter,
measuring
joint
Maud
[Reported]
measure out
measure in
mastic asphalt
pressure.
[J]
mazuma
m.c.
asphalt-rock,
See residuum.
An
masthead,
oil
master gate
1.
Mecca
97
seis-
rule.
stick
well to determine
penetrated. [PE]
how
let
down
in the
meat auger
worker
who
plays
up
to his boss.
[Heard]
Mecca
oil
Old Maud
p. 763] 2.
valuable lubricating oil which occurs in the Mecca oil rocks (Berea grit
1.
or
field
cable-tool engine.
[ME,
mechanical
efficiency
198
mechanical efficiency
An
mercaptan,
power required
run an engine; equal to the power
to
indication of the
actual
by the
[KOT]
cylinders.
mechanical steed
n.
gine. [Reported]
merchantable, adj.
Descriptive of
and quality
medicated crude
A crude oil having a foul odor which
comes primarily from sulphuric acid.
merchant pipe
[KI]
metering
medicinal
oil
tasteless,
of low vis-
[KOT]
lubricant.
medium-curing cutback
Asphalt cement which
has
been
thinned with a kerosene-type distillate.
See medium-curing asphalt. [KOT]
resisting
properties;
p. 128]
amount
cylinder.
this
that measures
(meters)
the
usually serves
purpose.
drocarbons
odorless
(CH 4
methyl alcohol
poisonous
liquid
(CH 3 OH),
also
the lowest
also called
principally
wood. [POR]
of
Mexican dragline
MEK plant
de-oils
[OPL,
medium-curing asphalt
and
line.
pump
A pump
colorless,
oil
highly refined,
oil
also
called
soften-
Wax
residues
extracted
wax
from
which has
certain petroleum
a finer
and
less
ap-
[KOT]
fin
[KOT]
member,
A
tion.
n.
microspheroidal-cracking catalyst
A new catalyst which offers two improvements over earlier ones: it wears
better and thus can be recovered and
reused more often, and it eliminates
mineral pitch
199
Lawdy, how
wish
had mine
H]
p.
mict.
Moving
from the
term derived
[Reported]
in cable tools; a
initial letters.
popular saying often used by crewmen who are working hard and are goodnaturedly tired of the task at hand.
[Heard]
million-dollar tree
middle distillates
Burning oil used domestically and
[DO, November
Diesel engines.
in
12,
1947]
middle line
The
on the
travel-
derrick floor; it is
ing block. [Heard]
middle
An
mill out
oil distillate
intermediate
kerosene and
distillate
between
lubricating-oil fractions.
[J]
middlings,
An
n.
midnight ethyl
[NO]
mill scale
pipelining.
thin layer of oxide covering new steel plates formed in the
steel-manufacturing process; it must be
removed before the plates are painted to
avoid an early failure of the paint coat.
[OPL,
\^\
p. 181]
M.I.M.
1. Moving
in
materials;
an abbrevia-
428]
2.
Moving
in
[LDO,
p.
may
migration,
n.
movement
oil. 2.
of oil or gas
Any
natural
underground.
[D]
To
writer.
[Heard]
mill bastard
See bastard
mineral colza
mill, v.t.
1.
file.
[Heard]
it
mineral jelly
milling tool
1.
[POR]
2.
tool used in some fishing jobs to reduce the size of the end of a fish to en-
make
fast to
it.
oil
its
products.
2.
is
oils.
[NO]
mineral pitch
Natural asphalt resulting from a slow
natural process or metamorphosis. [POR]
200
mineral right
mineral right
The ownership of the minerals under
a given surface, which includes the right
that surface to remove them.
be separated from the surface ownership, but must be so separated by distinct conveyance. [POR]
minseed
to enter
poses.
May
mirt
mineral rubber
Blown
asphalt
exceedingly
[KOT]
signal
lamps,
in
to 39
to 50
at
instru-
Baume, a viscosity of 45
100 F., on a Saybolt universal
ment. [POR]
[TH]
in these
ties
and lower
beds.
[POR]
mist
de-
rived
mist extractor
wells to
spirit
ber
6, 1947, p.
102]
mineral tar
viscoid type of petroleum.
mix,
n.
[NO]
mineral turpentine
See petroleum spirit. [Reported]
miner's inch
1.
now known
mineral sperm
the lime-
lighthouse
and in headlights of
field,
term both
[TH]
mineral-seal oil
mineral
In the Mid-Continent
Some
in
low
mineral seal
largely
[POR]
Mississippi lime
of
penetration (0 to 10).
illumination,
oil
will escape
miner's sunshine
A soft grade of paraffin wax used by
miners for burning in lamps. [D]
[D]
mixed
base, crude
Oil containing members of the paraffin series and the asphalt series. [BA, p.
200]
mixed-phase cracking
mix mud
To make
a solution thick
enough
to
pounded up by
drawn off by the
is
the bit.
bailer,
The mud
is
mope
201
mockingbird singing
A connection needs oiling. The squeaking noise indicates the need for lubri-
[Heard]
cation.
mol,
n.
and
coals
[PE]
[POR]
mooching hammer
A wedge-shaped hammer used by the
tank inspector for hammering the seams
of tank or boiler plates to determine their
tightness. Possibly derived
fuel gas
producer gas
lignites, the
generation of the
[POR]
Mond gas
A gas intermediate
air gas;
monkey,
n.
Most derrickmen
harness
because
today,
companies demand
it.
the
insurance
from mooch.
[KI]
mooching knife
and
pole
wedge-shaped,
knife-like,
tough
moonlight,
v.t.
To
moonlight delivery
[Heard]
theft of
machinery or
tools
which
the
mon\ey
moonlighter,
n.
One who
monkey-motion engine
to prevent
[NO]
moonlight ethyl
1
monkey
from
dis-
workers
adjustable
[Heard]
the derrickman.
for their
at
fit
capacity.
[POR]
monoclinal bulge
A dome which rises with apparently
irregular spacing on a monoclinal slope.
[POR]
Moonshine Hill
The name of the
monocline,
mope
n.
geological
which dip
name given
to
strata
generally obtained
tures,
officials
to
An
company
worn by
monkey wrench
its
[Heard]
made
covering the
strap
safety belt
monkey board
V_\>
^~^
pole
of a small tree,
which
is
used in pipe-
line
\s
Morgan, Gib
202
[POR]
pipe.
who
legendary oilfielder
famous
is
Mormon
board
broad board, reinforced and provided with handles and eye bolts; used
to back-fill pipe-line ditches by means of
teams, trucks, or tractors.
morning lower
The tour (q. v.) from
[POR]
tane number.
1.
initial letters.
Mother Hubbard
drilling
bit
bit
especially
in a hole that
which
wide seams. The
or in rock
is
bit
useful
muds up
for
easily,
and the
with the
fills
re-
the hole
not likely to slip off into slanting openings. The watercourse is wide
and rounding. The sharp shoulders on
it is
mud when
it to cut its
pulling out.
way through
[POR]
the
pack-
[Heard]
[POR]
or
mouse ahead
To
[Heard]
mousetrap,
1.
n.
open
inward opening valve; designed
out small metal parts that
a well. 2.
that
make
it
will
tool fitted
may
be
with a
fast to the
to fish
lost in
slip so
parted suck-
move in
&
rig
oil
moving bed
See fluid catalyst. [KE]
mother substance
The organic source
mouse hole
4,1947]
mother liquor
327]
used in internal-combus-
[Heard]
mother
oil
mountain sands
[Heard]
in drilling reports.
er.
spirit
Fuel
1.
that
[KOT]
[NO]
M.O.T.
to
The group
from the
working
testing the
dency" of gasoline
first
noon. [Reported]
mort
Moving out
motor method
A method for
motor
rived
ported]
Morgan, Gib
motor fireman
A motorman;
moving system
of
oil.
[LDO,
p.
mud-laden
203
MRD
An
mudding-in,
Halliburton
the
of
Oil
Well Cementing
Company. [Reported]
muck, n.
Waste materials
Muss. [Heard]
a
v.t.
To
mucker,
shovel by hand;
ditch-digger. [Heard]
n.
mud, n.
1. The emulsion made by
r^-rs
a mixture of
water with the drillings in the hole;
used (1) to suspend cuttings so that
they will not drop to the bottom of the
barrel
An
er.
clay.
[D]
mud box
to catch
mud
mud who
has
fluid
mud
p.
487]
flush
rotary drilling.
mud
method by which
is
mud hog
A pump
fluid
mud-hog pump
popular type of
is
Mud
Hog.
pump whose
trade
[S]
mud hopper
bit
chisel-like tool
through
mud
name
[POR]
mud
engineer
specialist in drilling
mud
n.
method
mud
p. 67]
n.
muck-stick,
fluid
collar
mud
hose
hose through which
to the borehole.
mud
mudded up
mud
mud
is
pumped
[Heard]
in
See mudding-in.
mud-laden
fluid
dense fluid of water and mechanically-mixed clay or earth which has a specific gravity of 1.20 or more and weighs
about ten pounds per gallon. The emulsion is circulated during rotary drilling.
[POR]
mud
mud
lubricator
204
mud scow
lubricator
trate
is
used to
an
engine.
mud
A
mud
mud
[POR]
The
prepare
To
seal off
with
oil.
is
dam,
sill
slip
Mud
flush.
mud-smeller,
[LDO,
p. 400]
An
n.
attempted to locate
oil
deposits by the
p. 763]
mud
mud socket
An apparatus
on
cleaning sand or
mud from
oil
oil
was used
[NO]
mud pump
See mud hog. [POR]
mud rim
See ashpit. [Heard]
mud
ring
mud
The
tools
for
a borehole.
mud up
To be sealed off with mud; said of the
producing formation of a well. When
circulating mud seals off a formation or
prevents the driller from getting a true
test of the formation, the well is said to
be mudded up. The rotary rig is especially apt to seal off a formation in this
manner; therefore, the cable-tool rig is
considered more accurate for determining
the drilled formations. [BA, p. 99]
mud
volcano
hollow cone in a volcanic region
from which mud is ejected by and with
umns
[NO]
drilling
[ME,
[A]
charge and
rock
Soapstone.
of a build-
[NO]
etc.
drill-
the outside
p. 393]
lowest timber or
syn.
[LDO,
ing, a derrick, a
mud
off
mud
gas,
of the earth.
mudsill, n.
mixer
mixing machine used to
for use in drilling. [POR]
rotary drilling.
ing
of
may
be accompanied by
col-
of flame. [A]
MUFFLER,
n.
mule-foot, v.t.
To shape like a mule's foot; used in
the expression to mule-foot a bit; to wear
off the bit on one side. [Heard]
content and its settling qualities, salt content, degree of acidity or alkalinity, and
the wall-building qualities desired. [SH,
mule head,
the
device
head (q.
n.
somewhat
v.)
similar to a horse
in appearance
and serving
naphthalene
205
mule-head hanger
The wire and connections on the mule
head by which the pump rods are lifted
in the pumping operation. [PE]
mule peeler
mule
teamster. See
ported]
mule's foot
A knot in a rag
which
line
[Re-
skinner.
is
fastened
s\inner's
to
multiple integrator
An instrument for calculating the
fect of gravity. [PE]
munjack,
mus
macaroni. [Heard]
[Heard]
multiple drilling
practice of
mud
sometimes found on
2. Greasy mud
extracted from a well while boring into
greasy
crusts.
[POR]
mushroom,
v.i.
I,
225]
oil
mustard,
spot.
[NO]
or muss, n.
mystery,
broken off;
or in any other close
ef-
n.
Indurated bitumen.
de-
for Skinner's
muley pick
The
may be
reach several horizons, or,
through the use of whipstocks, several
holes may be drilled at widely separated
points in the same formation. [FO]
c^
pipelining.
of
to
drilled
bituminous
light
location
1.
mule skinner
sometimes
from one
making
several wells
n.
mystify, v.t.
To withhold information concerning
a well that is being drilled. [NO]
N
naphtha,
1.
An
n.
respectively. 2.
liquid
One
gasoline, about 55
used as a cleaning fluid. It has poor burning time and quality. [D]
naphtha gas
An
decomposed vapor
of naphtha.
[POR]
naphthalene, n.
A hydrocarbon-forming, plate-like crystal having the odor of moth balls and
206
naphtha tops
and coal
[POR]
gas.
asphalt-base
[LDO]
crude
are
not
within
[POR]
naphthenic acid
Organic acids generally found in all
crude oils and their distillates. [POR]
narrow back
crew
narrow cut
any fraction
natural
An
oil
ment
specifications.
is
The
gasoline as spe-
cified
necessary
evil
packer. [Heard]
of
nester, n.
Sea.
is
in
the Caribbean
[KOT]
who
small boss
is
natural asphalt
Asphalt occurring as such in nature.
notable example
on Trinidad Island
[WIL,
for petroleum.
p. 40]
[KI]
name
early
natural, n.
1.
York lawyer,
naphthene, n.
A hydrocarbon belonging to the asphalt
series. The predominating constituents
of
New
Bissel, a
naphtha tops
See benzine.
George H.
Anyone who
lives
on an
oil lease
may
but
in-
neutral, n.
natural gas
A mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons
viscosity
found
related.
[D]
natural grease
early
medium
neutral oil
natural gasoline
A product from wet gas of an oil-bearing reservoir, first produced by natural
condensing in gas pipe lines. It is now
manufactured in modern factories and
is prepared for use in motors of automobiles and airplanes and for general
purposes. [POR] Also called flash gasoline. [KI]
An
name
for crude
oil.
In 1854
1.
refined and thoroughly deodorized paraffin oil varying in gravity from
32 to 38 Baume (1887) [NO] 2. An
oil
test
of
may
be called
wax
distil-
[D]
never-slip, n.
A device on
of tongs to
hold
the
while pipe
made
up. [Heard]
is
casing
securely
normal temperature
207
NEW EMPLOYEE
See apple knocker, boll weevil, boweevil, brake weight, bronc, cotton picker, green hand, oil Johnny, rookie, weevil.
[D]
than
control on a boil-
on
who
has made
enough money to gamble. [ST, p. 73] 2.
Anyone who gets a lot of money quickly.
[Reported]
a rope choker
(q.
v.)
nigger wool
to shut off
A name
at
Soldier
A tubular pipe fitting which is usualthreaded at both ends and is less than
twelve inches in length. Pipe more than
twelve inches long is called cut pipe.
1.
ly
nections
2.
col-
on the
rig.
p. 763]
nitrobenzene, n.
An aromatic derivative of benzene and
nitric acid; used as solvent in lubricat-
[KOT]
nitrogen base
compound
carbon,
of
hydrogen,
in crude
obtained in California.
oil
[POR]
Nobody
nonane,
The
n.
ninth
member
of the paraffin or
(C 9 H.,
[KOT]
nonproducing royalty
Speculative mineral interests in land
known to be capable of producing
oil; classified as under-the-well, offset,
not
close-in,
or
wildcat
royalty.
is
The
only
the propor-
and renewals
[LDO]
NONPRODUCING WELL
nigrate, n.
mined
joint.
[Heard]
1.
standard
n.
foreman.
and
lects
1.
of
nigger head
length
p. 138]
ing-oil refining.
nigger boy
1.
nipple-chaser,
1.
detachable
the
[WIN,
nigger, n.
2.
well,
well,
input
salted
nonrefinable, adj.
Descriptive of certain types of heavy
crude oil and fuel oil. [BA, p. 177]
the strata of
normal temperature
1.
The
208
nose
generally pertains to
tests. 2.
temperature in which a
The room
[KOT]
neath the end of the main sill of a standard rig front. [POR] 2. The sill under
the headache post. [NO]
commonly
N.P.A.
run.
test is
nose, n.
found
in the
drawn
to
nose bag
1.
lunch carried on the job. 2. The
container for tools sent to a lineman
from the ground; so called because of its
resemblance to a nose bag. [Heard]
Association.
nub pipe
To
it is
nujol, n.
nosepiece, n.
examination by
number
2 muck-stick
nose
1.
nutbuster, n.
sill
machinist. [Heard]
unprofitable, the
o.b.
An
mud
(q.
obispo, n.
condensed or blown
OBSTRUCTION,
says
it
has\{\*
Q I
[Heard]
oil
originating
[Heard]
[POR]
octane, n.
The eighth
n.
fish, friction,
frozen pipe,
O.C.
occurrence, n.
geology. The natural existence of a
substance in any particular place or in a
certain relationship to another substance,
as the occurrence of oil in limestone.
[LDO]
member
(C 8
H 18
number
sample in question.
[KOT]
octane selector
The spark-advance
n.
of the paraffin or
octane
ocean,
crew often
fmade a failure).
failure").
ocean (made
ocean water
in California petroleum.
See bridge,
junk, knot.
struck the
struck^
ly
it
control occasional-
detonation.
[KOT]
209
octodecane, n.
Liquid paraffin (C 18 38 ) extracted
from petroleum; specific gravity about
0.850, boiling point- above 216 C. [POR]
o.d.
diameter.
abbreviation
outside
for
[POR]
An
oil
felt rollers
which
n.
on an adjoining prop-
offset oil
odor,
natural
[NO]
erty.
in
A common
/-
oil,
which
is
[POR]
offset well
See
offset, 2.
Descriptive of pipes
off structure
odor test
part of an anticline
[POR]
to yield
Not producing
oil;
the
normal amount of
a producing well
when
production
temporarily. [Heard]
the
said to be off
drops or ceases
is
which
not likely
is
p. 58]
[LDO,
p. 428]
oil, n.
An
on warming,
off -color
The
The
oils
such
as
ing lubricating
industry
Flattery.
[DO, January
1,
1948]
oils).
[POR]
2.
slang.
[Heard]
by a
bloomless
oil from which the fluorescence or
bloom has been removed by bleaching or
oil,
An
official potential
as set
cludes fatty
tory expression.
state regulatory
a well
body. [BA,
blown
p. 149]
oil,
off -prime, n.
grade of lard
moved from
An
the line.
[POR]
offset, n.
"
[BA,
drilling reports.
1.
oil.
O.I.H.
off, adj.
7~
[OPL,
p. 67]
v.t. 5.
'lcfdnll
medicinal
See medicinal
oil,
oil.
[POR]
natural
Oil containing no water or mud. [DO,
February 15, 1948]
oil,
210
neutral
oil,
neutral
See neutral
oil,
[POR]
oil.
THEORY OF
OIL,
oil
theory of
theory, organic
locating
inorganic
oil,
oil
topped
from which the lighter naphtha,
gasoline, and kerosene fractions have
been removed by straight distillation at
low pressure and temperature. [POR]
oil
Oil
age
of motorization. [RI, p. 143]
vertical cylinder in
frees itself
from the
checked and
freed gas
is
pressure
its
led
away from
the trap
back
The equipment used in
cars at the refinery. [POR]
oil
mud
Mud made with
filling
tank
oil
and used
to block
off,
mud
off,
and
bases
oil, as
oil
[POR]
The white-oak
anticlinal which
from Newell's Run, Ohio,
Roane County, West Virginia. [NO]
[GL,
classified
paraffin-base
oils according to
[POR]
oil-bath-type air cleaner
oil in
removing
the
all
oil
sump.
[KOT]
oil-bearing
Strata, a
dome, or
self-chosen
title.
p. 167]
car.
[D]
An
[NO]
cold test
test to determine the point at which
clouding or congelation sets in. [POR]
oil
company
company which
more branches of
or
is
engaged in one
conservation
utili-
oil-control ring
containing an
sump washes
A
the
cylinder.
[KOT]
oil-country pipe
Any pipe used in
oil-field operations.
or petroleum. [PE]
[DO, November
oil belt
to
World
Oklahoma; a
car
See tank
as
the nature
air cleaner
ex-
oil
residuals.
The
The
oil
oils,
or asphaltic-base
An
box for
tion.
off
oils
box
oil certificate
oil-base
Crude
boom
lowered.
is
oil
from an excep-
tends
oil-and-gas separator
The
resulting
oil-break, n.
The age
is
boom
See boom.
oil,
oil
theory.
oil
bonanza
An
belt-line
oil,
district
including the supposed
course of subterranean rivers of oil; an
[NO]
12,
1947]
211
oildag, n.
Deflocculated
graphite suspended
in
oil;
See
An
region
field
oil
which an
oildom,
An
early,
in
oilfielder
works. [BB,
486]
p.
n.
region.
oil
[NO]
1.
Dorado or oildorado M
An oil town. [NO] 2. Any
I.BB,
oil.
drummer
World.
cowboy
oil;
oil-field
An
[POR]
engineering
skinner
may
oil-finder, n.
chemical engineering).
is
re-
[LDO,
p. 348]
producing
oil
well. 2.
An
oil-
An
oil
exchange
central office
stocks are
Trade.
oil
fever
The
[NO]
Any
[LDO,
p. 354]
oil flash
The
critical
temperature, in quench-
ing
steel
with
oil,
oil flotation
general
oil-producing
The
oil
oil field
plants
oil flush
1.
[Reported]
oil
oiler, n.
1.
driver.
oil filter
in
to
team
oil-field
lated
Appalachian
tion, or pipelining.
duct
field,
[RI, p. 66)
oil
oil-field
region
p. 486]
oil
[POR]
^
"3
Oil
diggin(g)s
1.
wells. 2.
field,
derrick
See oil-well derrick.
oil
oil
two producing
OILFIELD
[POR]
oil.
as
mercial quantities.
from
many
district
dehydrator
[POR]
oil
oil flush
region,
\
I
212
oil fuel
See fuel
oil
See
[D]
oil.
gas
oil
made by
[D]
tar
coming from
oil
cracked at a
high temperature.
oil
amount
in a
bearing reservoir, or a tank.
horizon
hydrometer
glass
various
gravity of the
oil in
oil.
float
to
at
the
[POR]
reserve
which
storage
and
refineries.
3.
Surplus
oil
oil
jack
1.
A
2.
oil.
wells.
oil
A mechanism
[POR]
for
pumping
lens.
[POR]
See
oil belt.
[POR]
oil-line
pump
A pump
[NO]
2.
An
oil-piping
syn. Booster
pump.
oil liver
A
oil
gelatinous mass
oils.
formed
in lubricat-
[POR]
log
life
oil lot
[FO,
oilman,
1.
Dur-
n.
One who
Illinois
oil
in the
[POR]
1.
system.
oil
Johnny
appearance to a glass
oil line
lots.
oil
lenses
1.
ment
an
is
theory oil
so called. [F, p. 114]
oil in
gives
[POR]
Oil
document which
[NO]
ing
ity of
closed,
legal
along a pipe
[D]
oil
The
case, a
[POR]
oil
1.
oil
gauge
crank
region.
oil
lease
oil-gas tar
land
oil
oil fuel
navy
River flotillas or two to three hundred boats used in the eighteen sixties for
transporting oil down rivers. Oil was so
transported down Oil Creek to Oil City,
Pennsylvania, where it was transferred
to other river boats for transportation to
<*-/
oil rights
213
Pittsburgh and other major river towns.
[WIL,
promoter
pulp
Oil of Gabian
A name given in France to petroleum
which was used for medicinal purposes.
oil
[FU,
aluminum
p. 37]
oilometer,
An
.
oil
See promoter.
p. 41]
oil reservoir
or tank.
on the brain
The "disease"
(f
oil
container for
oil
oil,
as a can, a barrel,
patch
oil field.
[WIN,
[POR]
oil pit
A
oil
hand-dug
[D]
well.
to
two small
areas at
pool
oil
prince
heir to
an
oil
fortune.
[NO]
producer
An
firm which
operates oil wells and sells the crude oil.
[POR] 2. An oil-producing well. [Heard]
1.
oil
individual
or
production
The
al-
oil
sump
used to deliver
oil
from
the
[KOT]
screen placed over the oil-pump inprevent large particles of dirt from
entering the lubricating system. [KOT]
puncher
nickname
refinery
The
quantity of oil produced, generally given in terms of barrels of oil produced in twenty-four hours (one barrel
equals forty-two gallons). [POR]
removing undesirable
from crude or partly-finished
generally a distillation process comprocess of
impurities
oils;
An
An
[POR]
pump
A pump
and
oil
oil,
oil
ponds
oil
solved in
stiff ener.
stearate,
palmitate.
oil
p. 139]
pavement
aluminum
The
oleate,
of
alumi-
let to
[POR]
An
consists
oil-pump screen
package
etc.
greases;
lubrication.
p. 19]
and
oils
uminum
oil
operator
See operator. [BA,
oil
nonfluid
num
n.
oil
oil
An aluminum
[POR]
regenerator
device used
oil
to economize heat during the process of refining. The heat absorbed in cooling one product is used for
heating another oil in the course of
[POR]
changer.
oil
region
An
and
oil field.
[Heard]
oil rights
A
oil
rock
oil
ferred
214
to another
by
ing
oil
property,
it
purchase both
or
though
in
many
is
oil
common
cases the
to lease
[POR]
royalty
[LDO]
oil-royalty interest
The proportion of all gas and oil produced on a piece of land, as designated
in the written lease, which the holder of
the lease delivers free of cost to the landowner or the owner of the royalty rights.
[LDO]
Porous sandstone which contains
[NO] 2. Any porous oil stratum; so called by oilfielders. [D]
1.
petroleum.
oil
An
vice
fits
around the
oil
un-
very
little
two
barrels of oil
and some
gas.
Wher-
handmaiden
oil-skinning
an oil company
who is expected to keep his employers
informed about new wells and other derepresentative
velopments in the
five barrels
In
oil.
1862,
around
Titusville,
Penn-
wagon haul
dollar
of crude oil
barrel,
with
an
was one
additional
a film of
oil
oil.
smeller
faker
who
professes to be able, by
a sense of smell
or
bearing strata
syn. Diviner,
oil
oil
wizard, dowser.
[NO]
spring
scout
its
shale
mile
saver
1.
sand
oil
The slow
to
The
oil
seepage
oil
1.
is
[Heard]
Oil sand.
oil
rock
seed
oil
of
fields. [S]
oil
215
crude or partly-finished oils where the
various hydrocarbons are separated by
differences in their ^boiling points. The
old-type
much
still
Cracking
flues.
is
but without
oil-filled
generally consist of
tubes to which heat is applied
on the outside
stills
surface.
[POR]
screen of wire gauze used for separating solid matter and sediment from
oil to prevent the clogging of pipe lines
ship
1.
sweetener,
oil.
steel
bore.
The
residue of
oil distilled
oil
gas.
the tools
when
the tackle
drilling a well
when
and
to
cleaning out a
oil territory
oil
pumper,
true
[POR]
carry
See
test,
oil-well derrick
in closed
retorts
teaser,
oil-well casing
which transports
oil tar
2.
well.
tanker
well,
string
is let
oil
oil strainer
oil
zone
region.
oil-well
oil test
A test by which the gravity, basic sediment, and water content in oil are determined. [Heard]
packing
packing inserted in an oil well between the pipe and the interior surface
of the boring to prevent surface water
from the sides of the hole from running
[Heard]
and to prevent oil from being forced out around the pipe by a
pressure of gas. [D]
oil thief
oil
oil tester
device by
which the
oil test is
made.
trap
oil
oily moisture
separator used in steam and ammonia pipe lines for the separation of
oil and greases from
monia gas. [POR]
oil
the steam or
am-
well which
either
waste mixture of heavy ends, moisand some wax, drained off wax
presses. The wax which did not adhere
is
produces
petroleum
[D]
OIL
ture,
well
witch
wax
oil
well, bear
which are
full of
beam
[KI]
zone
WELL
presses
Q
i
Oklahoma
216
gate
Oklahoma gate
with a hoop.
Oil-field
gates
leave
the
forced to install cattle guards. [Heard]
Strata
Some
be
to
have eroded
or weathered more than others. [PE]
ages old.
strata
olo, n.
roundy
ol'
old blind
an
oil-field
pected
under
sale,
Old Greasy
The name given by boatmen to the
Kanawha River because of the petroleum
which was allowed
to flow into
it
(1808).
[NO]
[Heard]
once-run, n.
See once-run
once-run
oilfielder
who knows
all
Man
The
(Not
cap.)
and
a bolt to hold
it
in
arm can be
adjusted with
a setscrew to obtain the desired position.
place.
radial
one-armed Johnny
A small hand pump which can be
tanks and to pick up waste
any
fluid
on
[WIN,
lease.
oil,
water, or
Also one-armed
p. 139]
one-hundred-and-forty-foot sand
A name given by drillers to a sandstone found at a depth of 600 feet in
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
Also called First Cow Run Sand. [NO]
one-lung engine
[POR]
onion hotel
An
p. 488]
old oil
Oil on
oil
Johnnie.
Old
oil.
old hand
An
[KI]
sis.
old age
many
oil-field
boardinghouse. [Heard]
on-stream, adj.
1.
within
[NO]
[KI]
olefin, n.
on structure
Any one
(C n H 2n ), belonging
ethylene series. [POR]
drocarbons
to
the
spot test
made
to
De-
on
Oliensis spot
2.
oil.
[BA,
p. 58]
test
are
rder
2I 7
on the beam
must be pumped. [Heard]
open pressure
The pressure on a gas well which has
been open long enough to waste. [POR]
on the
open sand
1.
which
line
[Heard]
on the money
An
expression
meaning everything
is
on the pump
Descriptive of a well which must be
On the beam. [Heard; BA,
pumped, syn.
p. 144]
opalescence, n.
Milkiness or cloudiness; a term usually applied to an oil, particularly a lubricating oil, which contains visible wax.
[KOT]
opal
oil
petroleum
distillate similar
to vul-
open,
[D]
operator, n.
1. refining.
The
who
[POR]
O.P.M.
Other people's money. Harry F. Sinwho multiplied his profits by the
sepa-
[POR]
An
[LDO,
p.
The
to
from
a well in a
open-graded aggregate
mining
upon
within
the fulfillment
[LDO]
[KOT]
smudge
ORDER,
trees.
Also
[D]
n.
oil.
open hole
The uncased
by the payment
a specified time, or
tract.
open-flow test
of gas that will flow
privilege, secured
orchard-heating oil
A product from California petroleum;
used in orange and lemon groves to pre-
made
great
405]
open-end basket
test
first
option, n.
open end
The end
was the
flash point of
oil.
clair,
open-cup tester
no
voids
sufficient
for
Operation Pluto
The world's most extensive undersea
pipe-line system, built by England and
n.
fault in
rated.
is
good storage
[Heard]
all right.
Sandstone containing
to provide
tail,
tails
roll.
Ordovician
Ordovician,
21!
outside location
n.
An
The
oil
con-
oil-field
where boring
leum
[POR]
organic acidity
is
organic theory
The
theory that
[LDO]
of Oil
on September
Pennsylvania. [GID,
oval socket
p. 51]
O.S.
Oil sand; an abbreviation used in drill-
ing reports.
[LDO,
p.
428]
Osterstrom liquid-phase
oil
origin in vegetable
Organ
distillate is headed
without vaporizing and
under pressure through a bed of adsorbent and back into a short coil in the pipedistillates; the
cracked
as a liquid, flows
still,
still,
O.T.D.
Old
total depth;
in drilling reports.
p. 428]
2.
The
quantity
overburden,
1.
al
overlies
good stone
[D]
overhead, n.
1. An overhead product (q.
lightest
outside helper
refining. The lowest operating
a unit crew. [Reported]
n.
outpost, n.
An
oil
[D]
transportation.
field
an abbreviation used
1.
method of gauging a barrel, a
tank, or a tank car: the difference between the full and rated capacity and
from
difference
[LDO,
outage, n.
of oil lost
The
culated stocks of
substances, fractions
which come
man on
ministrative
ported]
off
v.). 2.
or
costs
or
expenses.
The
ends,
3.
Ad[Re-
packing
219
overhead product
still
in
over-the-top vapor
The vapor which goes out of the flash
tower toward the chamber where it will
congeal into high-octane gasoline. [KI]
over-point, n.
overtime hog
An employee who tries to work overtime; one who is always ready and willing to go out on a job. [DI, p. 98]
over-produced well
A well which has been permitted
over water
to
name
field
[LDO,
(q. v.).
419]
p.
O.W.D.D.
override, n.
Old well
made
would
also terminate
and
royalty.
drilling deeper;
an abbrevia-
[LDO,
p.
428]
O.W.P.B.
Old well plugging bac\; an abbreviation used in drilling reports.
[LDO,
p.
428]
oxidation oven
Laboratory apparatus for determining
the rate at which atmospheric oxygen
combines with an oil. [POR]
overriding royalty
See override. [LDO]
oxidized asphalt
See blown asphalt. [KI]
overshot, n.
oxidized still
A blowing still. See also blown asphalt.
[KI]
[D]
oxygenated
overshot guide
A guide for a fishing
pack,
tool.
blown
oils.
[POR]
[PE]
packer, n.
v.t.
To
between two
package,
oil
sizes of pipe.
[LDO,
p. 404]
n.
1.
and
tool
used to
fill
terial
n.
name for a
make a joint
general
used to
yielding
ma-
tight, as the
220
packoff
paper, water-finding
Sensitized paper used in gauging to
show the amount of water in an oil-storage tank. [KOT]
packoff, n.
paraffin, n.
A device
paraffin acid
3.
An
Irish
pipeliner.
[Re-
ported]
driller
the log
naphtha
[POR]
The mixed-base crude oils of the MidContinent and Southern fields; contain
both paraffin and asphaltum. [POR]
paraffin base
1.
paraffin-base oils
solid paraffins
The
tary rocks.
[POR]
n.
small rectangular tank (of about 50to 100-barrel capacity) for retaining wax
ready for the filters in which dark sediments and oil are filtered out so that wax
comes clean for regular paraffin trade.
[KI]
P&A job
Plug and abandon job; an abbreviation used in reports. [Reported]
of
pale oils
pan,
distillation
Paleozoic age
The most productive geologic age in
American petroleum-bearing sedimen-
with
paraffin-asphalt petroleum
paraffin
makes. [Reported]
ural
-V
white,
paddy, n.
1.
spermaceti,
but
little
asphalt.
[D]
wax
from
2 to 6 per cent
in solution,
a fairly high
sylvania oils
the
as
varieties.
[POR]
paraffin butter
1.
candles. 2.
petroleum
One
making
distillation.
[D]
paraffin cheese
paraflow
221
paraffin dirt
to 20
flash
Soil of the
paraffin distillate
1.
crystalline
pressing; used as
wax and
bolt. 3.
gravity, 300
and
ready
rerunning. [POR] 2.
obtained after gas oil in
The
[POR]
wax
paraffin-scale
from
paraffin-
wax
tained
residuals obtained
from
wax
paraffin distillate or
paraffin slop
the combination of
Those
[POR]
series are
etc.
[POR]
paraffinnic acid
nitric acid or
warm
paraffin oil
1.
pressing
[D]
from
paraffin
sweated
wax
wax
from oil by a
and sweating the
oil out of the slack wax from the presses.
The oil sweated from the slack wax is
paraffin
of
called foot's
freed
heating
oil.
[POR]
paraffinum, n.
A mixture of solid hydrocarbons chiefly of the methane series; usually obtained
by chilling and pressing the distillates
from petroleum of a high boiling point
solid presscake so ob-
clear,
wax-free
wax
distillate.
paraffin
rating
and
wax
colorless
from
1. An acid (C 2 4H
48 2 ) obtained from
the oxidation of paraffin by concentrated
is
oil.
tained. [A]
used to remove paraffin from a producing well. The process is known as faffing a well. syn. Paraffin scraper. [Heard]
ture. It
ob-
paraffin knife
wax
process
paraffin
decane,
soft
color-
oil,
[POR]
paraffin scraper
paraffin fluxes
containing
paraffin slack
The
Say-
paraffin scale
distil-
lation.
sulphur.
to 450 F.
from 40
for
paraffin oils.
additional
The
viscosity
product
Baume
point,
oil
2.
obtained by
treated oil
methane
series.
[POR]
paraflow, n.
A condensation product of aliphatic
and aromatic hydrocarbon which, when
blended with a relatively high pour-point
lubricating oil, will cause a decided lowering of the pour point and improve the
viscosity-temperature coefficient and the
viscosity index, without the removal of
222
parasite
wax
by the comparatively
methods now used. [POR]
expensive
parasite, n.
relative or a friend of a
minimum
company
of-
ficial
pay
The portion of an oil- or gas-bearing
sand in which the mineral may be found
in commercial quantity, syn. Pay sand,
pay streak. [POR]
parianite, n.
payday boy
to
paroline, n.
pay
name
proprietary
latum. [A]
party chief
1. The foreman
of
a
seismograph
crew. 2. The foreman of an electric logging crew. [Reported]
passionate physician
A hot doctor (q. v.) unit.
The
expres-
[LDO,
A man who
[DI, p. 98]
dirt
An
earth formation in
which there
is
pay horizon
See pay. [Heard]
paying well
A well which
penses.
[POR]
pay lime
oil
or na-
p. 434]
payoff, n.
pastry lubricant
See grease and grease plant. [D]
1.
patch, n.
field
[NO]
early pipelining
term for an
Irish
Paul Bunyan
An
v.i. 2.
[DO, October
to begin producing; a
pay
out,
To
is
paying
v.i.
produce enough
oil to
pay the
n. 2.
[T, p. 143]
well yielding oil or gas in sufficient commercial quantities to pay the drilling
patty, n.
An
cost of drilling.
soft rivet
rary repairs.
producing well.
off.
1.
patch bolt
14, 1947]
oilfielder
who
brags. Originally a
pay rock
pay sand
been completed in
short
time. [Re-
ported]
An
oil
it
[NO]
pay streak
pendulum
223
pay string
The
string of pipe
which reaches
oil
is
oil
secured.
P.B.
Plugging bac\; an abbreviation used
[LDO,
p. 428]
p.d.
1.
abbreviation.
[KI]
pea picker
An awkward
worker.
The
expression
and
[Heard]
cotton picker.
ported]
peg model
bering term.
[NO]
machine used
To
Pencil Cave
Lime
known
geologist's assistant.
[BA,
p. 29]
rig builder. 2.
peg,
side- wall
[Reported]
[Heard]
Peg-Leg,
n.
Greenbrier
called because of
in
familiarly
Little
and West
limestone
is
its
disposition to cave
drilling.
[NO]
pencil pusher
A
v.t.
The
ments during
sample-taker.
v.i.
To drill
To set the
1.
layers
of Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Virginia.
which
Greenbrier
the
pecker punch
two
into
as the
to the shale
separates
one of the most readily identified formations from which to estimate depths
of lower sands. The dividing shale is so
pecker neck
[Heard]
some
1.
making carbon-
in
pencil, v.t.
limestone
1.
pebble picker
See rock hound. [Reported]
2.
show
to
pelletizer, n.
hit only
marked
pearl diver
v.i.
which
in drilling reports.
peg-leg,
To
pay zone
pendulum
[pinlun], n.
224
penetration
perforate,
penetration, n.
v.t.
To
under
The
trates
penetration macadam
A wearing course consisting of alternate layers of crushed stone and asphaltic
[KOT]
binder.
penetrometer,
An
Pennsylvania crude,
The
oil,
asphalt
or crude oil
petro-
and
in Pennsylvania
rounding oil-producing
by
sur-
[NO]
states.
flash
determinations on fuel
oils.
(C 15 H 32 )
separated
drocarbons (C 5
F.).
r:>,
point
boiling
97
[POR]
Permian
p. 552]
series
geological
nently in the
fields
of
Kansas and
permit
man
who
seismograph crew
of landowners
on their land. [Heard]
of a
secures permission
perpetual
oil
royalty
which
royalty
is
permanently
valid.
[LDO]
persuader,
n.
bar, pipe, or
wrench used
for forc-
clipped
form
of petroleum. [BB, p.
489]
petcock, n.
original
563]
occurring promi-
series
oil
pet, n.
percolation, n.
oils
(water
[POR]
percolating clay
See clay. [KI]
The
Any
pepper, n.
See acid sludge. [NB,
cating
n.
member
oil
[POR]
The member
fifth
and odorless
refined, colorless,
pentacosane, n.
A hydrocarbon (C 25 52 ) separated
from Pennsylvania petroleum. [POR]
The
11, 1947]
oil
pentane,
permeable, adj.
[POR]
pentadecane, n.
A hydrocarbon
[RI]
[LDO]
Pensky-Martens tester
The apparatus used in making
cup
in.
Perkins joint
paraffin-base
sulphur-free,
leum produced
The
[DO, November
n.
seep
perforation, n.
perfumery
consistency of a grease or
penetration (q. v.). [POR]
may
the formation
[POR]
specified conditions.
[POR]
drill.
A small
may
control
valve
called
pop or pop-off
petroleum bloom
225
petroleum,
Pete, n.
1.
2.
nickname
489]
Pete, n.
"Pete Petroleum," the cartoon symbol
by
John Moodie and used by the
Shell Oil Company. He is shaped like a
drop of petroleum and is comparable to
Bill (steel billet) and Reddy Kilowatt
(electricity). [SH, September, 1947]
for the petroleum industry, created
illustrator
petralol, n.
name
proprietary
latum. [A]
name
petrocene,
earth
oil,
Genesee
n.
and needle-like
crystals,
Petroleum and
cifically gasoline
derivatives, spe-
its
(British).
v.t.
petrolatum,
2. To
[LDO]
Rock
oil,
mineral
natural
grease,
fluid,
gushing
liquid gold, medi-
Oil,
oil,
frictionless
green
oil,
mustang liniment,
mother oil, mud
tar,
natural
oil,
Oil
of
petroleum asphalt
n.
um. Most
struction
tasteless, colorless,
[POR]
is
of this type.
[KOT]
petroleum benzine
petrolatum, liquid
See liquid petrolatum. [POR]
cut in
the
naphtha; in the
petrolatum stock
The
oil,
Oil, grease,
Kier's
mineral
latum.
fossil
a pearly luster
n.
oil,
latum. [A]
1.
PETROLEUM,
tar,
proprietary
ing gold,
petro, n.
11.
An
consists
of
redistillation
of crude
German pharmacopoeia,
petrolatum;
varies from light yellow to dark green in
color, according to the nature of the materials used in its manufacture. [POR]
portions of petroleum possessing a specific gravity of 0.640 and distilling almost entirely between 55 and 75 C.
petrolax, n.
petroleum black
base
for
A proprietary
latum. [A]
light
all
name
[POR]
Soot produced by burning oil; used
and printing inks in place of
the bone blacky obtained from animal
matter. Also used in the manufacture of
for paints
petrolecrat, n.
electrical carbons.
come
petroleum bloom
of a
royalties.
few thousand
[FO,
dollars
from
oil
p. 69]
petrolene, n.
A
tained
liquid-hydrocarbon
from bitumen
mixture
of asphalt. [D]
ob-
[POR]
oils.
[POR]
226
petroleum briquet
petroleum drilling
petroleum briquet
soap, resin,
means
petroleum butter
heavy
of a
or
repeatedly,
An
1.
number
of hydrocarbons
See gas
untreated
oil
obtained
[POR]
[POR]
cut
is
made
Each cut
is
still
higher
made
at
petroleum distillates
Groups of hydrocarbon compounds
driven out of the crude by the application of heat in the distilling process.
Typical commercial distillates are gasoline, naphtha, kerosene, gas oil, fueldistillates,
lates, in
and
that order.
in
oil
in Mitchell
perseverance
the
of
discovery
justified the
[SH,
wildcatters.
January, 1947, p. 9]
petroleum grease
A lubricant produced from
toms (q. v.).
still
bot-
Petroleum House
hotel
(1873).
in
Oil
City,
Pennsylvania
[NO]
petroleum
jelly
compounds. [POR]
oil
oil
oil.
petroleum cut
See petroleum fraction.
oil
petroleum gas
natural,
con-
carbons are
petroleum crude
may be
[POR]
distillates.
[POR]
petroleum fraction
A group of hydrocarbon compounds
distilled from petroleum between specified high and low temperatures. Theoretically, a fraction would be one single
definite compound, but in practice, a
or temperature or both.
as
Naphtha. [D]
solvent. 2.
petroleum fuel
petroleum-cracking processes
a well.
cutter or a boring
petroleum ether
tained
petroleum coal
The
and dropped
method, by
bit.
from
rotary
means of a rotating
[POR]
petroleum car
fractions.
bit raised
the
lubricating-oil distil-
[POR]
petroleum naphtha
The
first
fraction obtained
tion of crude
oil,
troleum product.
what
on
distilla-
The
expression
is
some-
pick-up
227
petroleum pipe line
and more
satisfactory
means
of trans-
petroleum substitutes
Petroleum distillates
which have
proved to be satisfactory substitutes for
certain of the more expensive animal and
vegetable oils, such as turpentine, linseed
[POR]
oil, etc.
petroleum tailings
The
by
[POR]
petroleum vapor
petroleum pitch
An
asphalt
Artificial
resulting
from the
mineral oils;
petroleum asphalt (q. v.).
There are four types: straight petroleum
distillation or oxidation of
also
known
as
Petrolian,
[WIL,
The
The name
of a
newspaper published in
[NO]
petroliferous, adj.
[POR]
petroleum producer
An
name
early
p. 130]
individual
petroline, n.
or corporation
and produces
which
petrole-
affin,
um. [POR]
petroleum production
The amount
[D]
of oil supplied
by a well
petronol, n.
proprietary
name
name
tum. [A]
petroleum refinery
petrosio, n.
the vari-
[POR]
petroleum
spirit
physics stick
pentine
substitute,
turmentine,
and
white spirit. Used as a paint thinner. [D]
still
still
hydrocarbon
bailer
is
to
as
fill
pick up,
To
petroleum
The
refined
distillate.
proprietary
pick-up, n.
petroleum refining
The
tum. [A]
228
pick-ups
[DO, June
feet."
pie
book of meal
tickets in
an
oil
camp.
who
er-chaser.
[Heard]
[WIN,
on
[NO]
who
has decided to
around the
or crow's nest on a derrick. [Heard]
structure
pigtail, n.
piling job
(Texas).
v.i.
To
an
oil
adj. 3. Descriptive
from
[DO, November
pinchpenny,
the thinning
1947]
n.
[Heard]
pinhead,
bit.
[Heard]
n.
pipelining.
oil line.
[Re-
ported]
drilling rig
mounted on
platform
pinking, n.
pilot hole
preparatory to
[POR]
pink
slip
pilot plant
[DO, January
18, 1948]
pin, n.
A sharp
lever
pinhole, n.
repressuring.
pinch out,
pineapple, n.
A cone on a rotary
pigpen, n.
fencelike
nail-pulling
me
The
slang.
[HI]
duction.
rig.
p. 138]
1.
screwed.
v.t.
flanks of
pig iron
Any heavy object around a drilling
is
short,
bit,
pig chaser
stem
The
2.
end of a
pinch bar
drill
[POR]
16, 1947]
Pig, n.
attic
at the top
To
p. 56]
[Reported]
The
heavy screw
pinch,
[MU,
fishing tool.
book
pin.
which the
25, 1948]
pick-ups, n.
two or more
or a dowel
Pintsch gas
Gas obtained by cracking gas
[KOT]
oil.
pipe line
229
pipe
tarry residue
oil in
gas
from
the cracking of
[KOT]
wrench
pin
the holes of a
up
ratchet,
ratchet.
turn
will
the
may
be
buggy
low frame on wheels used
to tail
pipe
dog
hand
tool
an accessible end;
consists of a small,
short steel bar, the end of which is bent
at a right angle to the handle and then
quickly returned, leaving only enough
pipage, n.
pipelining. The fee charged for transporting oil by pipe line. Also pipeage.
pipe fingers
A finger board (q.
[WIL,
pipe gang
p. 88]
pipe, n.
of water,
To
oil,
transport
or other fluids.
oil
v.t.
2.
by pipe. [POR]
v.).
refining. A crew of
[Reported]
[Reported]
men under
a pipe
fitter.
pipe grab
PIPE, n.
ductor,
down
down
dutchman, education
pipe, educa-
set tubing,
inch, loaded
string,
long string,
loose
pipe grip
pipe, macaroni,
fold,
trap,
screen,
Smith
Stiff, soil
pipe line
lines
[N]
er,
swamp
pipe,
swamp
pole,
swing
pipe,
pipe,
wet
string,
worm.
pipe bender
The
pipeliner
who
lines
up
the pipe to
line or
many hundreds
is
commonly included
in the term.
PIPE LINE
See
Bamboo
Inch,
line,
WEP.
pipe -line
230
pipe-line
and in the
lines,
pipe-line
A
lings
lines themselves.
[POR]
The amount
of oil
moved by
clamp which fastens over the coupon a pipe line to reinforce the
ings
clamp. [POR]
pipe-line walker
A man who
gauger
line
now
pipe nipple
A very short length of pipe. [POR]
pipe prover
An apparatus for testing the tightness
of a pipe line or a system, usually
pipe-line
a pipe
[Heard]
line.
clamp
pipe-line run
by hy-
RACK
PIPE
pipe racker
Pipe-Line Harley
Henry Harley,
first
the
the president of
great pipe-line company, the Alle-
run of
pipe saddle
An
pipe-line oil
vertical
[POR]
clean crude
oil,
acceptable by the
little
when
a line
[NO]
desired.
emulsion, etc. Generally transporters will not handle oil cut (q. v.)
more than 3 per cent. [Reported]
pipe stabber
See pipe racker. [BB,
pipeliner, n.
pipe
water,
1.
An employee
company. [Heard]
pipe-line helper. 2.
of a pipe-line
PIPELINER, n.
See barman, bender, Big Incher,
club man, collar
corker,
collar
cat,
pounder,
A sell
pecker,
connection foreman,
crumb boss, crum boss, fence gang,
gauger,
grease-mope,
hammer man,
heaver, jackman, laborer, laying gang,
linerider, linewalker, lowering-in gang,
mucker, paddy, patty, pig chaser, pipe
bender, pipe-line gauger, pipe-line walker, point man, real pipe hand, rider,
ridgerunner,
right-of-way
gang, rod
burner, rope man, scraper-chaser, sitter,
stabber, stiff, stringer, swabber, swab
man, tong gang, wiper, wrencher.
collar
p. 489]
still
(q. v.).
[Heard; ST,
p. 14]
pipe swing
An arrangement of two ells and a
nipple which permits pipe to be swung
in any direction. [Reported]
pipe tongs
A
pipe.
hand
[NO]
pipe trolley
A device used in place of a pipe buggy
to
lay
ported]
pipe
when
tearing
down. [Re-
Pitot
231
pitch pipe
pipe vice
An
it is
The
of the water.
siderable pitch
pipewalker, n.
See pipe-line walker.
pipe with a string on
faulty pipe
been
tied as a
pipe
worms
warning. [Heard]
[POR]
pithole
1.
which
See
pipe wrench
will
[OPL,
pit.
Pithole
fissure.
Stillson,
[D]
the horizontal so
it
from
Rust. [Heard]
the Trimo,
18's,
pipe yard
A yard where all kinds of pipe used in
drilling and production can be obtained.
[LDO,
gauge
was named
for
p.
80]
2.
Creek,
deep rock
Pennsylvania,
p. 384]
piping system
A complete layout of connected pipe.
pithole grit
One of the oil-bearing strata of Pennsylvania and Ohio; also known as Berea
[POR]
grit.
PIT
An army
v.).
[WIL,
p. 191]
PIT, n.
See big tool box, burning pit, pumping pit, reserve pit, settling pit, slush
pit, small pit, sump, sump hole, worry
box.
pit leak
pit-car oil
See summer-black
oil.
[A]
pitch, n.
1.
[POR]
of rosin
the distillation of
pitman,
1.
n.
into
relative
pitch, straight-run
Pitot gauge
An instrument used to indicate the
crude petroleum.
4.
232
Pitot tube
gas wells.
[POR]
[POR]
Pittsburgh flux
A condensed or blown
over
originating
and
drilling equipment.
[Reported]
play, n.
An
1.
new
To
v.t.
2.
play cage
compartment
baby cockroaches
for
common
Pipe-line oil; a
[LDO,
abbreviation.
p. 428]
plot, n.
drill-
[POR]
plant,
v.t.
To
well
salt a well:
(1862).
[NO]
2.
pipelining. See
string, 3.
surface
plow deep
The depth now
way leases for pipe
more
proportioned quantities of aggregate and asphalt at a central plant, conveying the completed mix to the point
of placement, spreading it, and finishing the pavement.
[KOT]
plant table
A small board mounted on a tripod by
means
of a swivel or a ball-and-socket
joint;
cement
hole.
which
detailed geo-
work. [D]
specified in right-oflines.
The
pipe
must
oil
drill
when
there
[DO, February
is oil
in the bore-
15, 1948]
plug, n.
1. The
ordinary plug or pipe plug
with an exterior pipe thread and a projecting head (usually square) by which
it is screwed into the opening of a fitting,
etc. [D] 2. In oil wells, a device or substance used to stop encroachment water.
Lead wool is sometimes used. [POR]
v.t. 3. To fill an abandoned well with
sand.
[NO]
4.
To
of a
wooden plug
clay.
[D]
sistency,
ney. [KI]
details,
To
ing
An
plow
plant-mix surface
plastic
logical or topographical
plant, n.
P.L.O.
oil
P.L.
1.
p. 216]
n.
piling
for contractors
patches
Small circular pieces welded
isolated pits. [OPL, p. 841
pit
in
The
offshore;
Pitot tube
A tube bent at right angles to determine the velocity of flowing gas or
liquid. The open end of the tube directed
against the stream converts velocity head
into static head or pressure which can be
read by a gauge. The reading can then
be used to determine the velocity in feet
per second by using the formula for acceleration caused by gravity and correction.
platform,
plug back,
To
by means
or core, cement, or
v.t.
polymer
233
been drilled through. [Heard;
DO, Oc-
a rigid connection
drilling tools
plug bit
To keep
pole peeler
A scuffle hoe used to clean the grounds
on a lease. [Heard]
mud
sets.
Also called
pole tool
Any
plug gang
refining. The still cleaners who remove coke from heaters and units. [Reported]
plugged
which have
been so coated with carbon from the distillation
still
tubes
process
plug pusher
pipe-line
plumb bob
The end
called
[NO]
Any activity carried on to secure patronage; for example, the efforts of a contractor to win contracts by flattering the
officials concerned. [Heard]
polish rod
[H,
p.
of
in drill-
ing reports.
pocket, n.
[NO]
pointed out
a
practical drilling.
drill
[LDO,
p. 392]
man
[POR]
pumping
The
well.
n.
process
in
rod
polish
[POR]
of
pyrolysis,
the production
which
re-
of gasoline
in
higher yield and of higher octane number than can be obtained by subjecting
the same oil to a conventional thermalcracking or reforming operation. Also
known as gas reversion. [KE]
1. An
abbreviation of polymerized
gasoline (q. v.). 2. An abbreviation of
poly, gasoline (q. v.). [KI]
poly, gasoline
[WIL,
p. 69]
lubricating
polarine, n.
pole
made
on the string
poly, gas
of
rods.
polyforming,
sults
pipeliner.
pumping
pumping
of a
Pmpg.
passes
polish-rod clamp
120]
point
steel
which
flattened fold
Descriptive
[KOT]
of a
or water.
n.
polishing oil
A
pump. Also
plunging anticline
n.
reins.
with rods.
polish job
[Re-
telephone operator.
ported]
plunger,
policeman,
ratory.
off
Descriptive of
[POR]
oil
drill
and
polymer,
n.
polymerization
234
as
to
rubber-like material.
polymerization,
light liquid
such
polyisobutylene,
[TH]
made
and
fitters
made
they
all
when
move out
of
n.
which an
at-
change unsaturated
smaller molecules into larger ones by
means of heat and a catalyst. [POR]
to
polymerized gasoline
Gasoline which is produced by polymerization (q.
pipe
shift
fitters;
promotions are
tempt
pipe
v.).
pool-opener, n.
The first producing well in a
[DO, October 15, 1947]
pool.
poor boy
1.
An
oil
pany with
little
p. 96]
drill
[KI]
new
14]
pond,
n.
pond freshet
An
from
artificial flood
to
Water was stored in pits during the rainy season and was released
during the dry season; by this method
porarily.
homemade
core
fashioned
barrel
poor-boy job
job
for
which
stock,
interest,
all
poor-boy level
When
the
were cut
plunged helter-skelter down the creek.
There were many collisions and jams
and much oil was lost. Sightseers came
prepared to dip up the
and
was
it
their
start
said that
in
oil
that spilled,
many
people got
practice (1865).
[NO]
bottle
pony packer
Any
or
or part
[NO]
pony rod
WIN,
pop, or pop-off, n.
1. A vent.
[Heard]
2.
An
automatic-
p. 138]
pony sill
The structure
popping
off
Senseless talk
that
gine-block in a derrick.
supports
the
en-
[NO]
[WIN,
from
a smart aleck.
p. 138]
popping of gas
pool, n.
1.
The
an
um
refining.
group of relief workers
always in the plant. When they are not
needed for relief work, they work as
3.
"flaring," burning, or
wasting of
pop the
still
To
put too
[Reported]
much
pressure
on a
pop valve
See pop. Also called pop-off. [KI]
still.
power, rated
235
pore space
The open space, or voids, between the
potential test
tential of a well;
[POR]
space.
flow
pot fireman
The
fireman.
pothole, n.
which
oil.
used to
allowable. [Reported]
porosity, n.
erable
test
porous, adj.
Capable of holding
p. 138]
it is wide
by the ac-
pot
oil.
[WIN,
[DO, Novem-
of
circles
man
1.
foreman.
on the
pour point
2.
fireman. See
man
The
[LDO]
portable rig
cified conditions.
drilling outfit
mounted on wheels.
oil will
pour
many
[D]
test
test
made
to
locations. [S]
ture at
possum
belly
from the
[D]
powder hole
current. [Reported]
v.,
An
or
posthole rig
A secondhand,
known
rig; also
boy
rig.
patched-up
as a
hobo
drilling
rig or poor-
field of
posthole well
See farmer well,
2.
pot, n.
boiler or kettle.
[Heard]
pot-boiler, n.
potential, n.
[LDO]
v.).
[BB,
p.
486]
n.
more
shaft
[Heard]
posthole territory
power,
posthole, n.
will
rods to
may be
pump
jacks,
pumped by
it.
[POR]
power, geared
A machine designed to pump several
wells at one time by means of rod lines
from one central location. A pulley is
geared to a vertical shaft which operates eccentrics.
[POR]
power, rated
The power rating given by the manufacturer of an engine or motor; generally the power developed at the most efficient output, not the
power. [POR]
maximum
horse-
po wer
236
distillate
power
preignition, n.
distillate
Any
1.
gines.
2.
heavy-end power
distillate
cut between kerosene and gas oil; usually set aside for rerunning, but often sold
under a variety of names for light-horse-
power-engine
fuel.
[D]
with distillation
between 150 and 260
known
power
as vaporizing oil.
rig used
in
practical operator
oilman whose
prairie-dog plant
A small refinery generally made up of
secondhand equipment. [BA, p. 193]
precipitation
test
cants to
show
which
the
crankcase lubri-
amount
of asphaltic
material
precipitation test
test for asphaltic constituents
of heavy
stocks.
made
and cylinder
[KOT]
preheat,
To
lubricating oils
v.t.
To
[LDO]
preheater, n.
[LDO]
pressure, n.
An
official
company
(usually pi.).
office of
[WIN,
an
p. 138]
oil-field train-
number
made on used
distillate
oil
1.
dumper
The refinery worker who opens the
wax presses and wedges the wax loose
See cold-pressing.
early
by
pressing, n.
P.P.
An
distillate
press
pressed
from wax
[TH]
rig
v.t.
extract oil
volatile kerosene
a fuel for
press,
To
power kerosene
limits essentially
The ignition of a charge in the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine before the piston cycle has been completed;
caused by red hot carbon deposits, badly
cooled spots in the cylinder head, or hot
spark plugs. [KOT]
system
pumped under
[KOT]
pressure coat
See coat. [KOT]
pressure control
The adjustment of pressures within a
well to obtain the most efficient and economical utilization of the energy in the
natural gas under pressure in the oil
sands. By proper pressure control, both
the ultimate flowing production and the
ultimate oil recovery from a sand are increased, and the amount of water which
may enter a well is controlled. This can
be accomplished by holding pressure at
the well-head
when
the flow
is
directed
promote a well
237
prime white
pressure distillate
The
pressure
in
filter
which the
liquid to be
fil-
tered
in the
filter.
producer,
filter
[POR]
oil
oil.
n.
[DO, November
or gas
and
oil leases
are
oil,
14, 1947]
Producers Form 88
The form on which most
written. [BA, p. 95]
system
pressure gauge
A gauge which will directly record
gaseous or liquid pressure within an apparatus.
[KOT]
pressure maintenance
The
repressuring of
from the
oil royalty
mineral interest in proven territory
from which there is a return or income;
pressure
stills,
which
solidifies easily
must be heated
to a high temperature to
pour; one of the heavy fractions. [KI]
pressure tar
The very heavy black residuum from
The
n.
yield or output of
an oil or gas
well or a group of wells. [D] 2. The
branch of the oil industry that brings the
oil to the surface of the earth and loads
it for shipment to the refinery. [KI]
1.
pressure-still tar
properties.
producing
production,
oil fields
producers' stock
Petroleum on producing
See lease storage. [POR]
PRODUCTION CREW
See bull gang, clean-out crew, connection gang, derrickman, floorman, gaffer,
gang pusher, hide-out, pumper, roust-
about.
or tower. [KI]
pressure up
To
test
pretty job
A highly satisfactory
chinery. [Heard]
primary water
Water originating
p.
up
pres-
of
ma-
factured.
[H,
manu-
The
string.
is
[BA,
p. 153]
promote a well
primer, n.
asphalt cement used for coating
[KI]
which
on substructure. [Heard]
production string
oil; in
[NO]
concrete-roof
[POR]
production derrick
A derrick set on concrete blocks, in
set
prime, adj.
A grade of
laid.
piece
308]
An
production curves
Curves plotted for individual wells,
pools, or fields, showing the rate of pro-
surfaces
before
felts
are
To
sell
in order to obtain
enough money
to drill
promoter
238
promoter, n.
The oilman who sells stock and promotes the drilling of new wells. [BA, p.
is
capable of producing
oil.
[DO, Oc-
proved reserves
38]
propane,
The
n.
third
[F,
p. 246]
member
of the paraffin or
(C 3 8 ,
saturated hydrocarbon series
boiling point 49 F.), a gas under normal atmospheric
conditions.
proven, adj.
known
territory
[POR]
ing
wells;
to be capable of produc-
[D]
oil.
propylene, n.
An
(C 3 H 6
unsaturated hydrocarbon
proven structure
,
comes
proration, n.
Territory
so called
in.
[BA,
p. 138]
proven territory
Territory which has been
Proration Hill
drilling.
prove up
1931.
former)
the
by actual
[POR]
To show
is
1947]
prune picker
[RI, p. 320]
1.
prospect, n.
Any
(especially
tive
definitely
Each
Any
prospect is numbered: if the crew is number 5, then the first prospect for that
crew is number 51, etc. [Reported]
prospect,
p. 271]
v.t.
p.s.i.
p.s.t.
PROSPECTING DEVICE
See dipping rod, divining rod, doodlebug, dowsing rod, fan shooting, oil finder, rod, water witcher, wiggle stick,
witch, witching stick, witch stick.
ptomaine cafe
1.
To
PROSPECTOR,
n.
oil find-
witch, witcher.
protection string
The middle string of pipe in a well,
which
casing.
Sometimes
[DO, January
prove,
called
salt
string.
18, 1948]
v.t.
To show
An
A boardinghouse.
puke,
[ST,
p. 30]
v.i.
puking,
n.
run-down
tank. [D]
2 39
pull rods
pull, v.t.
To withdraw
from a well. 2.
To clean a pumping well: to remove the
pump rods and tubing and clean out or
repair the pump, tubing, or rods. [DO,
1.
casing
[BA,
To
pulsate,
To remove
pipe
from
[POR]
a well.
member
crew of packers in a
carbon-black plant whose job is to sack
the completely processed black. [HP,
of a
2.
[POR]
by means of a pump.
produce oil by means of
raise oil
2.
pump;
To
said of a well.
[DO, Novem-
a connection
too tight.
is:
around the
bit.
[Reported]
pull lines
lines of rods
The
coupling;
line contract.
moval of a
hole.
v.t.
To
1.
pump,
1.
by
used
electric logging;
3.
green
To make
The
from
leaves
alternator
electric
[Heard]
pulling unit
[PE]
pulseur, n. [pulser]
An
is
The
Schlumberger crew in
pulling machine
from
April, 1946, p. 4]
it
v.i.
pulse, n.
puller, n.
1.
of a
pull casing
or rods
tighten
pump. [Reported]
pull a well in
pull
up
pull
[POR]
[Heard]
field expression.
pull tubing
a well
To
p. 162]
Get started; a
pull a well
To
The rods connecting the jacks on individual wells with the central power.
[BB,
[OPL,
p. 94]
drilling string
p.
489]
2.
from
The
re-
a bore-
PUMP,
n.
beam pump, blue elephant, bulldozer, bull pump, deep-well pump, donkey, donkey pump, Drake, Duck, ejector,
field pump, force pump, gathering pump,
See
pump,
pump,
pump,
armed
pump,
mud
hog,
pump, centrifugal
A pump
which
pump,
jet
[POR]
jet.
[POR]
horizontal
pump,
reciprocating
240
pump, reciprocating
A pump
ly
alternate-
pumping gear
pump, rotary
A pump
is
positive
upon
centrifugal force.
[POR]
pump, simplex
one-cylinder
[D]
jack, jack.
pump, single-acting
A pump cylinder
pumping-out pan
pumpage, n.
The amount raised by pumping,
pumpage of an oil well. [D]
pump by heads
To pump a well
pumping
as the
at irregular intervals.
[Heard]
machinist
who works
only
on
pumps. [Heard]
n.
An
An oil
3. An oilfielder who
man. [NO]
shimming
on
the end
case
[Heard]
pumping,
n.
production.
1.
The
from
usual
method
of
nonflowing well.
Pumping apparatus consists of a working barrel fitted with a plunger and ap-
extracting oil
propriate valves.
pumping
more
[POR]
or
pumping rig
See pumping
pumping unit
A pumping
jack
power unit
combined with a
pump-
[LDO]
pump kettle
fist
settling or
jack
See pumping jack. [POR]
[Heard]
1.
Sometimes called
[Heard]
pit.
pump
pump
ing well.
pumper's paradise
pit
open
wells
doctor
pumper,
An
pumping power
pump
lease
[D]
[POR]
1.
pump by lines
Pump
pump. [POR]
[LDO]
derrick
at the
er.
[D]
pump
lift
The
pump man
An assistant to the chief
tanker who must know the
mate on a
contents of
put on
241
pump off
To pump the
a well. When a
pumped
from
more
oil
pushover post
pump rod
The rod
[Heard]
rigs.
the walking
beam
of a derrick or jack at
pump
push pole
piston below.
pumper
[D]
oil
pump
station
1.
pumping
push tongs
through the
of any kind,
line.
2.
pumping
water supply,
as
oil
plant
gather-
To
n.
p. 112]
of tongs.
[WIL,
p. 69]
third-rate oilfielder.
2.
To
pipelining.
means
push tools
[POR]
ing, etc.
punk,
1.
pump
[Heard; MI,
handy man on a
pipe-line
job. [Reported]
pup, n.
Pic\-up pump; an abbreviation used
puskey, n.
A blend of puss and whis\ey. When a
worker takes a girl and his whiskey on
the job with him, he says he has brought
in reports. [Reported]
pup
1.
joint
which
[WIN,
put a well on
To open the choke and
ducing. [Heard]
slips
are
p. 138]
push a gang
To
work
start a
on stream. [Heard]
[WIN,
pipelining.
to
p. 138]
[WIL,
gether.
To make
ly
p.
763]
2.
p. 69]
put in stalk
push bucket
A scoop on a dragline which pulls
toward the machine in excavating a
[ME,
push-away buggy
pusher, n.
1.
A foreman,
after
of
To
unit. See
it
it
moves.
a drill-pipe connection.
[Heard]
put
it
To
put on
To
pump
install a
pump
at the
mouth
syn.
Nipple
chaser.
rig-
of a
1947]
of a
means
II,
242
To
eat:
[ST,
p. 29]
To
To
ask for
money
or to
borrow from
re-
A command
to
certain
it is
[NO]
much
force as
make
pyrene,
n.
trade
made
name
of carbon tetrachloride.
[LDO]
pyrogenic distillation
high temperatures,
line.
[POR]
pyrolysis, n.
p.
207]
Q
QRC
A
Queen City
The name
early hu-
sylvania, in 1870
when
the
town emerged
become the
Company. Ten
lines
were
World War
or
built
II.
more
of these surface
across
Africa during
completed as
pipe line in one night. [WIL,
p.
187]
quaternary, n.
geology. A part of the formations laid
tal
stage to
months
as a result of the
Lucas gusher.
[RI, p. 60]
quenching bath
bath of
oil
[POR]
243
QUIT A JOB
QUIT PRODUCING
down,
in,
make
a spool,
drown
out,
clothes.
R
R. or
Rmg.
Reaming;
and-mon\ey -board
an
drilling reports.
abbreviation
[LDO,
p.
used
in
428]
R. A.
Right angle (referring to location)
an abbreviation used in drilling reports.
[LDO,
p. 428]
WIN,
rack-rock,
An
method.
n.
Any tool forced through a pipe to remove foreign matter; usually a piece of
radioactive well-logging
[NO]
radiant section
rabbit, n.
steel
[Heard;
p. 138]
[BA,
p. 231]
the
is
make-up
rabbit job
job that
done
is
rapidly. [Reported]
The annular
member of
[POR]
side
To become
lines into
rag line
1.
angry. [Reported]
loading
tank cars.
oil
from pipe
[NO]
from
[KOT]
The
rack, n.
device for
solvent refining.
raffinate, n.
race, n.
Ragtown
The tent
2.
section of a
is
set;
a three-
canvas measuring
boom
town. [ST,
p. 129]
rack back
To
rag wheel
syn. Sprocket wheel. [A]
rack equipment
1. Equipment carried in the racks of a
panel truck. 2. The regular equipment
of a Schlumberger crew carried in the
racks of a panel truck. [Reported]
rack pipe
To
on a horizontal rack or
pipe on derrick floor. Two
methods of racking pipe in the derrick
are the hay-ra\e method and the fingerto
stack pipe
stand
railway grease
A collective term for
way
lubricant: axle or
grease, rod
grease,
grease,
and gear
track
grease.
[POR]
rai
nbow
rainbow,
The
244
joint of drill pipe to the drilling string.
n.
peculiar coloration
which forms
it.
[D]
pit
The
rat-hole bailer
[Reported]
rat-hole elevator
producer. [S]
rammer,
rainbow gold
[D]
coring. [Heard;
An
n.
move
elevator used to
rat hole
pipe to the
pipe is
without weight. [Reported]
picked up
hole.
The
rattle tubes
R.&T.
Rods and tubing; an abbreviation used
in drilling reports. [LDO, p. 428]
rapid-curing asphalt
A road asphalt treated with a gasoline
naphtha so that it will cure or harden
quickly. [KI]
rapid-curing cutback
Asphalt cement thinned down with a
gasoline- or naphtha-type distillate.
[KOT]
To
raw gasoline
The gasoline produced from
processed
rasp, n.
An
box or
on
before
fishing tools are placed in the borehole.
of the
collar
Rum,
the
rat, v.i.
4.
[DO, May
and
group
1948]
restriction
lowed
to
tion of
its
ration.
[BA,
p. 147]
fix
[GI, p. 138]
hand
real pipe
rate, v.t.
To
initials
ured,"
ratable taking
pipeliner
efficiently.
the
normal capacity of a
unit.
[PE]
ream,
rated potential
The official productive capacity of a
well. [BA, p. 149]
add
who works
steadily
and
p. 200]
v.t.
To make
down
rat hole
[SA,
1.
cards,
Swordsman's Club, a
[D]
R.C.T.
lost tools
or
ream
out.
[D]
ream down
See ream.
1947]
[Heard;
DO, October
31,
red engine
245
reamer [rimmer],
1.
straighten a borehole.
splitter.
ucts obtained in
n.
[NO]
2.
casing
[NO]
compared
as
oil
to the original
amount
of
from the
reaming out
severe reprimand;
eating out. [Heard]
comparable
to
vember
12, 1947]
ream out
1.
See ream
2.
slang.
To
scold angrily.
WIN,
p.
rectification, n.
138]
recycle,
reboiler, n.
v.)
[Re-
ported]
recondition,
To
v.t.
[DO, October
14, 1947]
reconnaissance, n.
A preliminary geological survey. [D]
v.t.
To
recycle stock
refining. A portion of a charge which
has not been properly stilled and is to be
returned to a still for reprocessing. [KI]
red-and-yellow basket
See catch-all; the term is derived from
the song "A Tisket, a Tasket." [Reported]
recorder,
n.
The member
who
of a seismograph
crew
and
takes
RECORDER,
Slumber
recover,
1.
To
log,
electrolog,
seismograph
recorder,
electric
Red Barn
n.
See detector,
Schlumberger,
red ass
Jay, snitch.
v.t.
as a
red beds
To
[Heard;
DO, November
12,
1947]
The
fied
so-called
worker
who
recovered acid
"disease" of a dissatisis
ass.
red devil
Sulphuric acid which has been collected and reused after purification. [D]
recovered
red butt
An
the
oil
from the noise and vibration which annoy the handlers. [KI]
[D]
recovery, n.
1.
refining.
The
total
amount
of prod-
246
redistillation
and compressors;
machine oil and filtered
a blend of red
gines
blown
gine
stocks, or a
[POR]
oils.
reducing
A still
redistillation, n.
The
product which
of a
distillation
[KOT]
still
type,
steam
reducing
red lead
reducing elbow
An elbow which decreases in diameter
toward the small end; used as a reducer
on a turn. [POR]
and stabbing
red-neck, n.
An expressman who hauled barrels of
oil to railway shipping points in the
early days of the petroleum industry.
[T, p. 33]
red
lubricant
for
pipe
fittings.
catsup,
Also
branch. [Reported]
[Heard]
oil
[KOT]
an abbreviation used in
Redrilling;
[LDO,
p.
428]
drillers
to the red
Now
v.t.
lighter
oils
of greater
reduced crude
recovering small
named for the
for
debris;
wax.
[Reported]
See reduced
The
auxiliary
drum
drum
wax
The
fining
[D]
oil
oil.
refining, n.
[D]
reduced oil
Oil from which the more volatile hydrocarbons have been eliminated by
partial evaporation, usually by steam. [D]
reducer, n.
fitting
and
reefer, n.
refined
To
tool
reduce casing
drilling.
fishing
reel, n.
off
one end
[KOT]
manufacturer. [Heard]
name given by
distill
pieces of cone
red rock
To
reed basket
drilling reports.
reduce,
viscosimeter
petroleum products.
Redrig.
Redwood
which decreases
to the other.
[D]
in size
from
The manufacture
reins
247
refining agent
The
reforming,
REFINING
See
alkylation,
catalyst
A.S.T.M.
distillation,
cracking,
catalytic
continuous process of distillation, continuous system, cracking, cracking distillation, cracking (liquid phase), dehydrocyclization, dehydrogenation, destructive
alkylation,
destructive
distillation,
de-
Dubbs
Engler
process,
Edeleanu pro-
hydroforming, hydrogenation, mixedphase cracking, petroleum-cracking process, pyrogenic distillation, pyrolysis, pyrolytic cracking, static catalytic cracking,
steam distillation, steam refining, straightrun distillation, superfractionation, thermal cracking, thermal distillation, vac-
uum
reflux exchanger
cylinder
product of
which must be
petroleum
distillation
order to produce a high-octane fuel second to gasoline. When it is first run the stock is not
of great value, but the restilling brings
it within a naphtha range, after which it
is cracked to improve the octane rating.
[KI]
restilled in
refractive index
An
rosin in mineral
refractometer, n.
An instrument for determining the
index of refraction of a mineral. [D]
some
lead.
[SHU,
p. 158]
regular gasoline
The
gasoline
made
to
the specifica-
the selling
pumps
company and
of the
manufacturing company.
[KI]
regulator, pressure
which often
projects above
The vapors
passing
which
reflux line
pipe line leading from the condensing chamber back to the bubble or fractionating tower from which gasoline
has come in the form of vapor. [KI]
reformed gasoline
Gasoline made by cracking
run gasoline or other suitable
[KOT]
p. 470]
reforming stock
reflux, n.
utilizes a
naphtha as a
or
regular, n.
distillation.
range which
which
gasoline
distillation,
n.
cracking process
straight-run
METHOD
Atwood cracking
[POR]
Reid vapor pressure
A measure of the pressure exerted on
the interior of a special container (Reid
vapor pressure apparatus) by the tendency of the product to vaporize. [KOT]
straight-
distillates.
named
for
its
pres-
inventor.
[PE]
reins, n. pi.
1.
The
[D]
2.
releg a derrick
248
part of the
part of the sand pump. 3.
temper screw. The nut in which the
made
is
in
[NO]
2.
replace part or
demands
when
the depth
usually consists
of driving four-inch pipes inside the regular derrick legs. [Heard]
relegs, n. pi.
v.t.
more
an amount
[OPL, p. 46]
DO, January
11, 1948]
retainer or plug.
[PE]
REMOVAL OF
trip,
round
trip,
REMOVE
PIPE
See come out of the hole, draw, draw
make
a pull,
make
a trip, pull,
is
[D]
pit in
which reserve
drilling
reservoir, n.
1.
gas
or
depository.
liquids or gas
may
2.
an
as
oil
where
place
reservoir energy
paratus. [PE]
[POR]
The energy
in a pool
force
1947]
which
from
a large
amount
etc.
assists
may
re-
of gas,
from
[FO]
The
2.
v.t.
147]
1.
tion by
oil.
reservoir pressure
repeatability, n.
out more
mud
oil
The gas pressure in an oil or gas formation, syn. Reservoir pressure. [BA, p.
PIPE
trip.
To
is
removable cementer
A removable cement
1.
oil
[D]
reserve pit
repressure,
internal-
redistilled
stored. [Reported]
well
The
burned in an
engine;
Redistilled
into, a cratered or
set
easily
heat-resistant.
rerun
valve
out, fish,
more
2.
combustion
able.
relief
v.t.
drilling.
1.
to
effort to
out.
rerun,
is
relief irons
an
it;
[Heard]
relief
in
reinforce a derrick
The
[NO]
p. 168]
REPRIMAND,
of the well
all
releg a derrick
To
To
and gas
column of
oil
reservoir rocks
Rocks such as
sandstones
and some
richest hill
249
limestones with minute pores or voids
in
which
found. [BA,
oil is
retort, n.
p. 41]
on earth
Oil
clay kiln.
through
filtered
is
residual, adj.
all
material
an
constituents of
oil
mixture. [D]
or
viscous
[KOT]
residue, n.
The
1.
tion.
The amount
2.
remaining in the
the distillation
residues, n.
The
is
of original liquid
distilling
flask
when
completed. [D]
F.
and lubricating
the
of asphaltic base
asphaltum,
tire
residuum,
The
is
oils,
and,
oil.
in
[POR]
n.
return bend
1. The curved connection between the
pipes in a refinery-unit coil which can
be removed when the pipes are to be
cleaned. See header, 1. [BA, p. 231]
returns, n.
The
passes
pi.
part
up
of
the
circulation
which
meaning
to lose the
gasoline, kerosene,
The
act of
stem;
opposite
rotary
to
circulation,
reverse dip
The angle made by strata which do
not dip in the same direction; an indication of an anticline. [BA, p. 66]
by
Obsoles-
the
crudes,
etc.
residue
where the
fire.
reverse circulation
case
removed by
pi.
solid
[POR]
cent.
ties, it is
impurities are
reverse rig
drilling
rig
rigs.
[Reported]
resin, n.
The
saponifiable materials
found in
oil
mens. Resin
frequently produced by
the oxidation or polymerization of teris
[POR]
penes.
retainer, n.
rubber plug seated in casing by pressure to hold cement in place until it sets.
[DO, January
8,
1948]
To
Retipper. [Heard]
n.
name. [SH,
Rice Hotel
A treater; named by workers in southern Texas for the Rice Hotel in Houston
because of its many compartments. [BO]
richer than four foot
Descriptive of a
ported]
retip a bit
to dress
Rhumba, n.
The vibrating
richest hill
up a
good
bull's ass
oil
sand.
[Re-
on earth
title
first
field
and
later
250
rich oil
mont
field.
The name
is
[Reported;
HOO,
rich oil
Oil from which some of the lighter
cuts (probably gasoline) have been re-
ill
Wilson,
rig, cultivator
drill-
p. 34]
ride polly
To pretend to be
combination
1947, p. 101]
6,
in order to
draw
RIG BUILDER
See catheader, pecker neck, rig
fixer,
down
To tear down
rig
rider, n.
often than he
vember
2,
rides.
who
walks more
[Heard; DO, No-
pipe-line inspector,
rig fixer
1947]
rig floor
5,
derrickman.
a rig. [Heard]
The
floor of a derrick.
[DO, October
1947]
[Reported]
rig front
ridge-runner, n.
The
pipe-line rider. 3.
shirker. 4.
Anyone
who
riding boss
pipelining.
boss
who makes
his in-
(generally fur-
walking
riffle
1.
off
board
See weir,
4. 2.
A board
used to skim
wax. [Reported]
pipe
rifled
with
feet.
[D]
rig, n.
All the boring and pumping equipment, including the derrick, used in locating and securing oil. [NO] 2. An oil
1.
derrick. [D]
RIG, n.
rig,
part of a standard
pumping
or
the
sills,
Samson post, the walking beam, the pitman, the band wheel, and the bandwheel shaft. In a modern outfit a reduction gear may replace the band wheel
and other parts. [POR]
rigger, n.
1.
2.
rig
refining.
One who moves equipment, operates the
winch truck, the gin poles, and the
booms, lifts sheets for tank construction,
builder.
and
er
3.
(The
boil-
fabrication.)
[Reported]
right off the reel
1. Originally descriptive of sand line
unspooled into the hole for bailing. 2.
Now
talk.
[ST,
rough
p. 138]
right-of-way gang
The pipe-line workers
who
clear trees,
[BA,
p. 179]
road-mix surface
251
right regular-lay cable
cable in which individual wires are
laid to the left to form strands, and
strands are laid to the right to form the
cable. See lay. [D]"
rig irons
The
appliances neces-
rig runner
To
for a pipe-line
An
pipelining.
man
hammer-
with a ham-
ringworm corrosion
Worm-shaped
An
to
and
get machinery
lead,
corrosion. [PE]
clamp
river
up
Originally,
mer.
To
1.
rhythm
[Heard]
rig
drill is
ring off
steel or cast-iron
sary to install
which a
[POR]
which
is
tools in position
rimmer, n.
A reamer
rivet catcher
(q. v.)
rimrock, n.
Inward-facing
ley.
In
some
(1865).
cliffs
[NO]
surrounding a
characteristic
surface
dome; however,
expression
valis
of
a
a
ring anticline
ring gage
1. A ring used in the measurement of
crushed materials, the size being indicated by the diameter of the ring opening through which the material passes.
2.
ring used to determine the point at
it is
p. 25]
[Heard]
job.
river pipe
[NO]
Rng.
Running; an abbreviation used
ing reports. [LDO, p. 428]
in drill-
road auger
p. 72]
road binder
tar, or residuum used to
road fragments on a road
Asphalt, cold
consolidate
surface.
[D]
road-mix surface
surface
road
252
oil
rock
road
struction, etc. 2.
oil
Any
road
oil
Asphaltic residual
such
oil
with
volatilize
or
in
oil
or a blend of
which do not
used for dust-laying
distillates
readily;
construction of various
highways.
hammer used
cating
types
of
[KOT]
road
oil, nonasphaltic
nonhardening petroleum distillate
or residual oil which has a sufficiently
low viscosity to be applied without pre-
[KOT]
Any
designed to
drill
rocker
arm
on some pumping
asphaltic
oil,
drill
1.
[Heard]
units.
rock gas
See natural gas. [D]
rock hound
oil
from
etc.
linseed
oil,
castor
banana
oil,
it
oil,
[NO]
roarer, n.
]NO]
rock pressure
See
rock, n.
reservoir
pressure.
pressure
and
shut-in
[POR]
Any
rocksy or roxy, n.
A shortened form of roc\ hound
v.).
1.
tively
[D]
rock, sedimentary
rock asphalt
An oil sand from which the oils, gasoline, kerosene, and gas oil have been
evaporated, leaving residual oil in the
pores. The best-known deposit is near
Uvalde, Texas. [KI]
rock beat
[Heard]
rock bit
[NO]
(q.
[BB, p. 489]
rock tar
Crude petroleum. [POR]
To
in such a
The
manner
that
begins to flow.
start a well
two to five times
pressure required
it
to
column
is
in
normal
of fluid in
well,
the well.
first
Thus
down
it is
the tubing
between the tubing and the casing. Several of these reversals of the gas may be
required to get the well started. The
process is so called because of its backand-forth character. [POR] 2. To shift
rod-line
253
weights to equalize the load on the rods
so that the motor will start and the well
will begin to pump. [Reported] 3. To
rock up
The
increase
in
pressure caused by
it has been allowed
[Heard; BA,
rod clamp
the hard-
named
inventor. [PE]
A
it is
[Heard]
rod, n.
rod elevator
An implement
1.
[Heard]
1.
rod burner
[NO]
rod board
p. 153]
rock well
(1865).
pump
used by a pipe-line
them
steel block provided with an opening and latching device for the entrance
of the sucker rod and two long links to
pumping. [POR]
rod, connecting
rod guide
The rod
an
An
[POR]
rod hanger
rod, eccentric
of
screw-jointed rods.
from
oil
samples
rod-line
car.
[POR]
An
wells
rod thief
rod line
[POR]
from
A device high in the derrick of a producing well to hold rods straight during pulling jobs; a midget hay ra\e
(q. v.). [Heard]
[LDO,
p.
375]
pump
outside-packed
1.
small basket-like cage in which
the derrickman stands while he guides
the rods to the rod hanger as they are
to
is
connected
to-
ward
pump
in
power needed
rod basket
pump hooked
pumping
a power. [Heard]
fill
the
pump.
If it is in-
rod-line rocker
254
rod packing
fibrous
head to
pumping
well.
fit
ex-
rolling
See
dog
slips.
[LDO,
p.
373]
rolling rope
rolling tailboard
rod-line swing
which
rod-line rocker
[Heard]
pipe
screw one joint of pipe into another by means of a rolling rope (q. v.).
The joint is rolled until the turning becomes difficult; then it is screwed with
heavy pairs of pipe tongs, each operated
by four to six men. [BA, p. 180]
roll
To
[POR]
rod rollers
Wheels over which the rod line runs
to prevent the line from dragging and
to lessen weight on the power. [Heard]
rod walk
wax
roll-welding, n.
gang
lines
up and tacks a
and places it on
is
p. 59]
of
[LDO,
p. 428]
oil
To
built
rookie, n.
A new
World War
oil field.
usage.
Not
[Heard]
roll a
house of
twenties after
limited to the
roily oil
less
which was
and burned
[Heard]
R.O.G.
Crude
Roof Garden
tube
spread the end of a pipe or metal
and
will
rooster bullet
See cackle berry. [Reported]
rooter, n.
rope spear
255
rope drive, American
rooter plow
percussion
rope drilling.
carriage to take
and
rope boring
num-
rope bucket
[POR]
circuit.
p. 22]
Probably the
nickname originated in the name-calling
feud between the cable-tool drillers and
the
cable-tool
driller.
rotary drillers. It
is
said
began
that the
to call the
rope-drive system in
take
of the machines or sheaves can be adjusted and thus change the distance be-
rope grab
drillers retaliated
by calling the cable-tool drillers ropechokers. It has also been claimed that
the cable-tool driller
human
of his almost
is
so called because
association
and
re-
[ST, p. 5]
rope chopper
up rope
rope cracker
See cracker,
1.
[S]
of drilling in the
end
ground
of a rope
which
[D]
tools
in
tools
with extra-heavy
jars
may
be run
[NO]
n.
rope rig
rope drilling
with a
known
rope knife
The
method
borehole;
ropeman,
[NO]
[POR]
in the
[NO]
rope clip
centers.
well.
sepa-
There is no provision to
the stretch of the ropes unless one
up
tween
which a
in the sheaves.
is
is
times called
rig in
which the
string of tools
is
rope sheave
A grooved pulley for hoisting
power transmission. [POR]
or
rope socket
rope drive
drives
and
steel
cables
for
long-
The
line.
which
is
[NO]
rope spear
[NO]
worm
rope
256
worm
An implement
rotary runner
rope
1.
of tubing. 2.
[NO]
of a corkscrew.
1.
rotary
well.
oil
The
2.
drilling
turntable used
to
and
outside the dislocated zone which were
parallel before the displacement are no
on opposite
lines
rotary bit
cutting point of the drill pipe
accomplished through
is
rotary swivel
See swivel neck. [POR]
rotary system
The
when drilling
[FO]
rotary bushing
for
drill
it
drills in rock.
rotary drilling
hydraulic
which depends
of drilling
effectiveness
on
a rotating, auger-
rotary table
The geared rotating table which propels the drill stem in rotary drilling.
[POR]
rotate, v.t
To
1.
drill. 2.
To
The
action of
the
the bottom;
such procedure is
necessary in order to keep the hole and
mud in condition while waiting for orders or equipment. [Heard]
off
rough hand
consists of rotating a
method
its
to
bit
rotary
rotary shoe
rotary, n.
an
to
rotary engine
Any
type of engine
a truly rotary
[POR]
rotary helper
A roughnec\ (q. v.); the name
recent origin. [Heard]
flexible
is
of
for
sions.
[POR]
roughing-cut
cutting
Mud
line.
[D]
[POR]
1.
or coolant with
heat-removing
cut.
tools
qualtities;
during the
[POR]
n.
v.i. 2.
To work
as a
member
[POR]
of a drill-
rotating table
operating the
oil
compound
roughing
drilling.
roughneck,
rotary machine
The
The
a machine tool
exceptional
rotary hose
pump
roughing cut
and driving
drill
parts
pipe in rotary
Round Mound
A
[ST,
nickname
p. 191]
run barefoot
257
round
rubber rock
trip
The
of the drill
roustabout, n.
1
who
semiskilled laborer
assists
the
who
as-
4.
pull-out
To work
common
as a
or semiskilled
[Heard]
laborer.
structure
called
run, n.
1. The length of a screw;
generally, the distance that can be
drilled before the drill must be sharp-
drilling.
more
The amount of oil taken from a producer's tank by a pipe line during a specified time, as a day, a month, etc. refin3.
The
ing. 4.
total
amount
tillation of a specified
rousty foreman
production. The head roustabout, who
is responsible to the production foreman.
[Heard; LDO, p. 438]
of oil fed to a
still
v.t.
well.
6.
To
lower
amount
5.
of
One
dis-
oil.
[D]
[D]
run a rabbit
To
test
royalty, n.
1.
The
forcing a piece of steel (or other substance of the proper size) through the
pipe.
[Heard]
run-around,
the landowner or to one who has acquired possession of the royalty rights.
2. The amount paid by the lessee or operator to the owner of the property
worked, based on a certain percentage
of production. A royalty right can be
rights.
n.
run a screw
To
drill
deep enough
er screw out to
its
to
royalty interest
The
run a swab
To
[POR]
out
oil,
R.P.
Roc\
pressure;
in drilling reports.
an abbreviation used
[LDO,
run a tank
To pump
p. 428]
a tank to
R.P.M.
Revolutions per minute. [POR]
rubber, n.
A shortened form of stripper rubber
(q. v.). [Heard]
rubber neck
A
of
its
flexibility.
[Heard]
still.
[KI]
runback, n.
Pipes through which the condensate
is
returned to the
drawn
off.
still
when
it
is
not
[D]
run barefoot
Said of a producing well that is uncased in the productive sands. [BB, p.
490]
run casing
258
run casing
To
run
[WIN,
p.
138]
run derrick
The
1.
p. 138]
oil
known
[OPL,
run-down,
[WIN,
discharge a worker.
[Heard]
erect a derrick.
is
off
To
run
run days
To work
To
Gather
as runs. syn.
oil.
p. 128]
n.
an
distillation of
[POR]
down to
The whole
oil
2.
run on choke
To
by means of a
called
flow
run-down box
run out of hole
To
run-down legs
The part of
a gasoline
[POR]
run-down storage
See run-down tank.
[BOW,
p. 91]
run-down tank
tank in which a
product
is first received; a receiving tank. Also
run-down storage. [D]
distillation
Said of a well which has or gives evidence that the oil structure (rock) is in
a point. The well shows that the oil
high in
is
this point.
[PE]
run in
1
etc.
To run
hole.
The
[PO]
run line
To run
steel
in) 2.
line
up tongs. [Heard; K,
run high
structure
practical drilling.
p. 129]
To run
a straightness
test;
in the first
run ticket
record of the
[Heard; SM,
oil
p. 140]
run to coke
a depth-measuring device:
To
crude fractions
distill all
down
to
[POR]
[Heard]
R.U.
running gage
running time
Rig time: the
drilling reports.
[LDO,
R.U.R.
Rigging up rotary;
actual
working time
at
p. 428]
an
abbreviation
p.
428]
safety platform
259
R.U.S.T.
Rigging up standard
rust bucket
tools;
an abbrevia-
[LDO,
p.
A refinery
tion
and
is
428]
[Reported]
S. or Sd.
safety belt
[LDO,
reports.
sack
expression of independence.
When
my
sack full,
anyhow," he means that it does not matter if he is fired, for he has no use for
his particular job.
[Heard;
WIN,
p. 138]
saddle, n.
saddle, pipe
A
on
made
fitting
in parts for
clamping
an
outlet.
To
worn by
the derrick-
v.i.
catch
[NO]
saddle bearing
The bearing on which the walking
beam
rides
post.
[WIN,
as it rocks
on the Samson
p. 138]
of joints.
See bear
[POR]
cable slide,
hard-boiled hat, hat rack,
headache, headache board, headache post,
insurance cheater, iron hat, life preserver,
guard
rail,
life saver,
monkey
strap, never-slip,
wagon
tin
hat,
QRC,
turtle-
top.
saddle reef
See
[PE]
safety joint
special joint
saddle flange
A flange shaped for bolting on a convex
surface; used to repair a leak in a pipe.
[D]
anticline.
same number
SAFETY DEVICE
An
him
safety board
A board in a derrick on which the
derrickman stands when handling elevators. There are single, double, triple,
and quadruple boards, placed at suitable
heights for stands of drill pipe of the
back,
[POR]
saddlebag,
leather belt
to hold
[LDO]
full
An
A
man
p. 428]
legs.
[D]
S.A.E. classification
Classification by the Society of Automotive Engineers. [PE]
260
safety slide
the
derrick.
triple,
[POR]
safety slide
See son of a bitch.
[LDO]
(1890).
sag, n.
The
1.
clamp.
axis
anticlinal
One
3.
between
two
two-piece pipe
of the irons on which the
p. 66]
2.
1.
special
2.
catalyst
Sodium
not
chloride
To
v.t.
obtain samples of
and tank
salt, n.
chloride.
[NO]
salt-water well
fire wall.
[Heard]
domes. [BA,
safety valve
safety wall
See safety earth wall and
SALT WATER
sodium
removed
from crude oil. [Heard] 3. Any salt resulting from the reaction between an
acid and an alkali. [KOT]
oil
from tanks
[PE]
n. 2. A small
used in determining prop-
cars.
amount of oil
erties and grade. [POR]
sample bucket
The
from
There is usually only one such bucket on a rig, to
avoid the possibility that one might be
used which contains a little oil, thus recontainer in which samples
salt, v.t.
To
1.
strata in
or central por-
salted well
Either a dry well or one not yet drilled
which the owners present to prospective investors as a producing well after a small quantity of oil
has been poured into the slush pit, the
borehole, a pit of water, or into all.
to the pay sand,
[Heard;
sulting in a false
show
in the samples.
[Reported]
dome
HOO,
p. 152]
sample-catcher
1.
One who
2.
sample-grabber
See sample-jerker. [KI]
salt
sand
sample-jerker
One who
mark made on the kelly joint to inwhen a sample has been caught in
dicate
work
this
job.
[Heard]
from
sample mark
up
mark. [Reported]
v.,
is
2)
a sample
drilled
down
is
to
sand
26l
sampler, n.
A connection on a manifold or vessel
used to sample oil for laboratory tests.
[Reported]
tom lowered
Samson
An
pump
sand
1.
tester
sand-pumpings,
n. pi.
[NO]
of cable tools.
sand reel
sand,
n.
Any
1.
or moderately consoli-
loose
dated bed consisting chiefly of sand (often pi.). 2. Sandstone (a technical usage
in petroleum regions).
[NO]
may
p.
31]
for-
not consist
found. [BA,
To become
4.
v.i.
is
3.
with
filled
[Heard; RI,
p. 72]
sand box
A drum
ly
to
re-
p. 23]
its
on which sand
used
gripping power. [Heard]
fishing tool
to increase
is
sand hog
may
one gallon of
sand
oil.
[POR]
sill
The
[NO]
sand-smeller
geologist; a derogatory
name. [BB,
p. 489]
sand
n. pi.
sand hitch
[NO]
sand bucket
A. sand pump or bailer used
move cuttings from a well. [BG,
fitted
or bailer.
stones
sands,
trough
separate
pump
sand rocks
A term given by
settle
out of
it.
[PE]
sandstone, n.
Any rock formed of coherent or
mented sand. [D]
ce-
sand lens
See shoestring sand.
sand
[LAN,
p.
220]
line
sand
Oil
[NO]
oil
sand tester
[POR]
sand thickness
262
sand thickness
The
from
duction.
[LDO]
saturation hydrogenation
A type of hydrogenation which is confined to the production of paraffins or
naphthenes from the corresponding ole-
fines or
saver, n.
An
sand trap
[NO]
saxol, n.
name
name
Saybolt color
A method by which
proprietary
tum. [A]
saxoline, n.
sand up
See sand,
4.
[Heard;
DO, October
A
29,
proprietary
tum. [A]
1947]
sand well
An
December
4,
process by
an
sap, n.
The
Saybolt colorimeter
The
1929, p. 77]
[KOT]
for color.
alkali to
form
[KOT]
Saybolt furol viscosity
A method usually employed in determining the viscosity of fuel oils. Saybolt
furol viscosities of 43, 62, and 102 would
correspond to 400, 600, and 1,000, respectively,
soap. [D]
scale.
on
the
Saybolt
Universal
[KOT]
saponified oil
The
state of oil
when
s.c.
liberated
See acid
fatty.
[POR]
Crude
by
refining
scale
oil.
[Heard; RI,
p.
filtering
from
the heavier
[D]
oils.
saturated core
core containing
scale, n.
satin gloss
A common
wax
wax from which most
of the
content has been sweated out. [D]
oil
314]
saturated hydrocarbon
A hydrocarbon in which all of the
valence bonds of the carbon atom have
been fulfilled. [KOT]
proportion of
oil in
To remove the most valuable constituents and waste the residuals. [POR]
[LDO]
an
sand.
50 to 85 per
company
name for a poor-boy company
[MU, p. 24]
scarcely-ever-get-oil
saturation, n.
The
scalp, v.t.
field
(q. v.).
oil
scare line
[Heard]
screw conveyer
263
scatter sheave
crown
scraper-chaser, n.
A
in
who
worker
and
the surface
[Reported]
The
burned
gas.
The
first
A
n.
Slumber Jay
logging device;
electric
(q. v.).
v.t. 2.
To
record
Schlumberger engineer
The foreman of a Schlumberger unit;
only engineers become foremen. [Re-
A common
hands open
[SA,
p.
[Heard]
[NO]
[POR]
screen test
made on
asphalt emulsion
determine quantitatively the
amount of coarse emulsion present.
test
(colas)
to
[KOT]
scout, n.
1. A man sent to obtain information
concerning a mystery (q. v.). [NO]
2. The engineer who makes preliminary
examinations of promising oil prospects;
scope pole
An
much
who knows
something
about
drillers.
v.t. 4. To do
duction field. [Heard]
reconnaissance work. 5. To obtain information about areas being drilled by
[POR]
screw,
n.
cylindrical
helical
SCREW,
[NO]
v.t.
scraper, n.
made
like scis-
200]
S clamp
others.
used
scratcher, n.
scissor tongs
[POR]
line;
a scraper or a swab.
screen, n.
ported]
The
remove
to insert or
An
often used indiscriminately for any electric logging device. More often spelled
sors.
[D]
scraper trap
[POR]
Schlumberger,
1.
ner.
up, push
tongs, roll pipe, set up, thread up, tie on,
tong, tong pipe up.
it
SCRAPER,
screw conveyer
n.
See automatic
rabbit,
bug,
go-devil,
make
screw pitch
264
screw pitch
The
screw (q.
scrub,
sea duty
Work on
[POR]
scrubber, n.
1. An apparatus for washing and removing ammonia and light hydrocarbons from gas. [D] 2. A drip or separator for
separating gas
tank. [Heard]
from
fluid,
syn.
pressure vessel
mechanically entrained solids
in
large
which
and liquids
natural or manufac-
To
See blank
block
mud
block squeeze,
plug back, seal
off,
off,
spoon.
off,
the
top of
tank. [KI]
off,
seal coat
scuffle
2.
from
[D]
To
sea lawyer
scrubber tower
1.
SEAL,
scrubber tank
[HN, Septem-
seal, v.t.
v.t.
To
Volume
offshore rigs.
hoe
the blade
To
fill-
seal her
up
scuttle,
v.i.
To come down
[LDO,
S.D.P.L.
Shut down for pipe
S.D.W.O.
Shut down waiting
p.
any
to finish
task.
[Heard]
seal pipe
term. [Heard]
S.D.
Shut down; an abbreviation used in
drilling reports.
Now,
p. 428]
tool
of
"mail-order"
performance
[LDO,
p.
428]
A
for orders.
[LDO,
428]
sea drag
A cone-shaped canvas bag which is
attached at the top to an iron ring; used
in putting storm oil in the water. [D]
driller
of
unknown
quality.
[ST,
p. 162]
SEAT,
See
n.
seat
wrench
seizing
265
sea
wax
secondary production
1.
duction
dog on
his
York
secretary at the
Company
seedbag,
1.
sures, or
secondary water
Water occurring in strata separate from
the oil zones and entering the oil zones
from artificial causes. [H, p. 130]
to the Gar-
[NO]
secure,
oil-bearing
(1890).
from the
left
ported]
sediment,
material other than water (usually sand or dirt) which settles naturally
below oil in a tank. [D]
n.
See alternating
flux,
basic
sediment,
wax
Now,
[NO]
and con-
a specially designed
surface.
the earth's
oil
segment,
1.
oil to
[POR]
[Heard]
oil.
n.
The
between an
surface included
arc of a circle
and a chord.
2.
The
air
[POR]
SEISMOGRAPH CREW
See bug, D.B. crew, doodlebug, doodlebugger, jug hustler, permit man, recorder,
shooter,
seismograph log
The diagram registered by the seismograph, or by seismographic apparatus,
of the action of ground movements. [PE]
One who
sedimentary rock
sandstone conglomerate, shale, or limestone.
water-laid deposit,
seismograph recorder
tailings.
flax-
n.
Any
SEDIMENT,
to
with
2.
Crevice
to a stopping point; said of
filled
seep
sand
v.t.
To come
bag
seepage, n.
The flow or leakage of
second sand
The second
[NO]
n.
Originally, a
as
sand,
[POR]
seducing the canine
Loafing on the job; killing time; a
euphemism said by some oilfielders to
have originated when a worker insisted
on drawing the picture of a man chasing
observes, reads,
and records
seismometer,
An
n.
instrument
used in geophysical
survey to detect and measure movements
in the earth.
[LDO]
seizing, n.
[D]
266
self-contained
self-contained, adj.
Descriptive of thermal cracking
which the process operates entirely
recycle light hydrocarbons
the cracking
itself.
in
on
[KE]
[DO,
n.
proprietary
Seneca
name
oil
An
abbreviation
of
steam
emulsion
number. [Reported]
separator, n.
1.
machine
aid of water or
with the
materials of different
for separating,
air,
52]
sell, n.
activity or
command. [Heard]
SELL, n.
See bastard file, can of vacuum, lefthanded monkey wrench, pipe stretcher,
rat-hole bailer, sky hook.
1.
oil pool.
tum. [A]
sell
semprelin,
produced in
self-drilling well
rat
hole,
build
rabbit
from
[Heard]
separator, cutting-oil
out
To become
p.
222]
centrifugal
cutting
tings. It
oils
is
[POR]
separator, oil
of a steam engine to
semiagitator, n.
LDO,
it
poses.
[POR]
p. 449]
semitight well
A well about which little information
has been released. [DO, October 19,
1947]
semiwildcat, n.
1. A well being bored at the limits of
an oil pool or very near a known pool.
[PE]
adj. 2. Descriptive of a well being
when
the steam is to be
used in a condenser for heating purlubricating oils
service engineer
set, v.t.
1.
To
a well.
cement or other
mixtures which were at one time semiliquid, but which have become solid.
n.
3.
adj. 2. Descriptive of
in
wood. [D]
267
back
set
settle to boil
[WIN,
stand of pipe.
An
refining.
p. 138]
expression
signifying
set casing
See
set,
To
1.
[Heard]
on the bank
set her
ported]
An
The
drilling
tools.
The
drill
is
is
made
not
To
tear
down
from
set it
To
pipe and thereby
end of normal
drilling;
mark
tools to
one phase of
[Heard]
set
bounce. [Heard]
up
1.
To
tools.
shoe
[NO]
setter, n.
on rubber
drill into a
the
[Heard]
set pipe
set
off.
[Heard]
To cement
bled
pit into
separates
set to carry
set out
sibly derived
is
open
oil
in
[NO]
several pieces.
probably passing
settling pit
The
set of tools
is
joist to
p. 490]
seven, n.
A pay sheet with the official number
777, the official work-order sheet used by
the Stanolind Oil and Gas Company. A
worker may say, "I have a seven for a
certain job." [Heard]
To
[WIL,
an early expression.
p. 56]
setting point
The temperature at which liquids congeal and become solid or semisolid. In
many petroleum oils this point is determined by the paraffin content, which
becomes solid when the temperature is
reduced to a certain degree. [D]
settled production
The production
of
an
oil well,
which,
years.
[D]
seventy-foot rock
A name given by drillers to a white
sand found at a depth of 825 feet in
Pennsylvania
County,
Westmoreland
(1890).
[NO]
settler, n.
1.
in
Originally,
to
make
any
job.
[Heard]
2.
Now,
to
com-
S.G.
268
S.G.
Show
an abbreviation used in
gas;
[LDO,
drilling reports.
p. 428]
shackle line
connected clamps, or
extended to a pumping jack
from a central power plant. Also called
rod line and pull line. [POR]
line of rods,
shackles,
shackle-rod system
to operate as
wells.
[Heard; RI,
p. 35]
n.
shake-out, n.
A sample of oil taken from the grindout machine to determine the percentage
of BS&W; so called because the machine
"shakes the sample out." [Heard]
shake-out machine
business;
said
of
an
oil-
grounds
name for Woodford
shale, coffee
field
Slush
less
than
[LDO]
Sh.&L.
Shale and lime; an abbreviation used
[LDO,
p. 428]
One
[NO]
and
is
used to
is
sharpshooter,
1.
long,
n.
for hard
digging. [Heard] 2. drilling. The worker who has charge of the explosives.
[Heard]
shear release
A nail plug that breaks when the
sure
pres-
is
[Reported]
shear zone
The zone within which the
movement
sheave,
of the rocks
is
lateral
evident. [PE]
n.
for
n.
A Wyoming
driller.
[PO]
sheet, n.
steel plate
shale. [Re-
shale oil
3.
[Heard]
years.
of tanks, boilers,
ported]
1.
1,000 feet.
1.
shale, n.
[D]
[D]
many
share pole
shallow sands
Oil sands with a depth of
in drilling reports.
shackle-work,
To
shale shaker
A device through which mud from a
well passes to the slush pit, and in which
part of the water is removed. "He used
to sell shale shakers" is an expression
commonly used to describe an executive
of an oil company who has been around
sheet sand
A continuous layer of sandstone underlying a wide area. [BA, p. 55]
shell, n.
1.
oil wells.
shoestring sand
269
2.
in well-boring.
shell buckle
gether. [Reported]
pump
shell
pump
shirttail
packer
A homemade
made from
days
consist-
shirttail rig
rig
which
is
moved
to a
new
loca-
[Heard]
drilled.
shells, n. pi.
fine-
shock
To
v.t.
break
down
electric discharges.
shell
A
the
water-cut
[BA,
oil
with
p. 159]
still
first
method
is
now
Shepard canes
The Shepard
shock macaroni
earth-resistivity
meter
setting
field.
up
[Heard]
shoe, n.
1.
The bottom wedge-shaped piece
which is attached to tubing when it is
being sunk through quicksand. 2. A heavy
steel ring the end of which is beveled on
the inside and then hardened; used as a
shoe on the bottom end of a string of
casing. [D] 3. A part of a crosshead on a
compressor. [D] 4. The lowest board on
shield, n.
rods.
[OPL,
p. Ill]
enough
An
SHIFT, n.
See graveyard, gravy tower, hoot owl,
morning lower, tour, tower, trick.
shift-breaker
An
shift or tour.
shine, n.
pressions as
[Heard]
shoe
toe joint
cuttings, syn.
shipper, n.
bars
the custody
clay.
shoe-shell
A tool with a valve opening upward,
used in deep borings for removing drill
shoestring sand
Sandstone that
is
is
a lens representing
shonkinite
270
and most
miles,
[POR]
shoot pipe
To
perforate casing by
forator in
shonkinite, n.
The
discovered. [PE]
shoot,
To
lens
v.t.
other
high explosive in a hole to shatter the
rock and increase the flow of oil. [NO]
nitroglycerin
explode
or
One who
an
oil-bear-
To
send
An
short stake
A short payday; a term used by old
cats. [Reported]
1.
oil
electric charges into the earth
shot, n.
[Heard]
shoot for
p. 147]
short, n.
To
patterns.
and in
cer-
and
re-
mean
to
ing,
3.
glycerin dropped
bottom of a well
of petroleum. [PE]
the
cartridge of nitro-
on the formation
at
shooting needle
in the
stemming
shooting system
it
shot-detector distance
The
located
shot
distance at
from the
is
drill
An
[NO]
shotgun, n.
A steam cylinder on the leg of a derrick; used in early days to break out pipe.
[Reported]
27 I
shotgun
driller
scriptive of
BA,
disturbance
superficial
occasioned
lower in the hole.
by an explosion much
[PE]
shot-hole rig
[Heard]
shot-in-the-dark, n.
[NO]
goon
appearance of
oil
from a
by a rainbow on
water coming from the well, distinguished from the films formed by lubricating oils used in drilling. [D] 2. Any
appearance of oil too small to measure
in barrels or too insignificant to produce.
[Heard]
v.i. 3. To promise oil. [NO]
showings,
shrinkage,
The
oil.
n.
2.
by evaporation dur-
The
settling of earthen
1.
v.
To
shut-in production
The amount
of oil a well
is
capable
p. 165]
shut-in storage
Oil left in the wells after it has been
discovered and is known to exist in
large commercial quantities.
[LDO,
p.
498]
shut-off, n.
Shut
[POR]
shut
cold, off-stream.
leaks
[D]
loss of oil
ing shipment.
fills.
n. pi.
The
1.
Work
shut-in pressure
n.
The
4.
1.
1.
(shutdown)
SHUT-DOWN, adj.
See cold, down
v.t.
show,
n.
shut-in
SHOVEL,
[Heard;
Any suspended
shot-hole disturbance
shoulder,
an
p. 228]
[Reported]
Sicilian oils
down
To suspend
in;
an abbreviation used in
ing reports.
the
production of a
[LDO,
drill-
p. 428]
Sicilian oils
suspend any
gentum,
oil-field
operation, as
of an
office.
[BA,
p. 165]
the
management
adj. 3.
De-
sideboard
272
sideboard
side shot
An
extension for increasing the capacity of a container. Boardinghouse proprietors advise roughnecks to put sideboards on their plates because they serve
themselves so generously. Possibly transferred from farm terminology (i.e., the
sideboards of a wagon). [Reported]
side
[Heard]
To
cut of
oil
sections of the
or
from
drill or string
sight derrick
To
and lamp
light
oil
petroleum
olive
oil.
combined with
oil
oils, as
lard oil or
[KOT]
subdivision
of
mouse
trap
[POR]
side
draw
cut.
[BA,
Monkey-
To
cas-
ing. [S]
side irons
side run-off
put
down
[LDO]
sinker bar
A bar added to the drill tools to give
the required force to the upward jar. It
is never allowed to pound upon the drill.
sinker-bar guides
Bars of iron (usually four)
fitted
to
which make up
the walkjng beam and
drill or
[NO]
p. 234]
sidehill, n.
Ragtown boom
sinker, n.
side-door elevator
An elevator with a hinged part at one
side that opens to receive casing or tubing.
since the
The
broken
sink, v.t.
bit for
p. 234]
side-door basket
mak-
[LDO]
See side
station.
Silurian, n.
dog
sure different
or
useful in
side
drill past a
of casing
is
side stream
signal
side cut
the top
traverse
method
ly
bottoms
the top
level
1.
pillar tractor.
side
mapped
The hand
side track
boom
A boom
accurately
[D]
sink hole
1.
vertical hole worn by water into
limestone rocks along a point or fracture and usually connected to an underground channel. The caving of the roof
skimming
273
may
cause
the for-
Shut
in,
on a well
To
remain
One
while
is
geologist or
sitter, n.
An
six-size candle
pound
wax and 50
Skidmore crucible
A crucible used
son carbon
test.
skid-row tycoon
skid shoe
To move
new
better of another.
sixty-foot rock
skim,
name
[NO]
The number
which
is
its
with
diameter.
[Heard]
v.t.
To remove
[D]
n.
ported]
p. 160]
size of a
wrench
The
[Heard]
plate used in
[POR]
skimming pit
A pumping
pit in
The skimming
of traps through
making
steel pipe.
which
the water
is
skelp, n.
location.
skimmer,
size of a well
four.
the Conrad-
ported]
sixth sand
[BA,
making
in
[KOT]
[POR]
around the
skid rig
at the site of a well
sketch plate
circular
S.I.P.
1.
pit
it
effected
oil
predetermined
[Heard]
reaches
pit.
is
which
by means
flows
levels
when
in
the
skimming plant
274
skimming plant
and equipped to
recover only the light products from
refinery designed
crude
oil.
[D]
v.).
Skinner's Rest
leakage
[WIN,
p. 53]
A name
1.
can
to natural gas so
readily
be detected.
and
shells).
[NO]
An
2.
by an Ontario
sky-hooker, n.
See derrickman. [BB,
p. 489]
sky hooks
nonexistent tool for which boll weean initiation prank.
[Heard]
slab, n.
and
others.
slate
and shells
name given by
[D]
drillers to a certain
sleeper, n.
slack barrel
a joint or to couple
slate
name
moderate-sized
gasket,
from
incorrect
n.
well-drillers,
oil.
p. 138]
skunks,
wax and
[POR]
slate, n.
oil
malodorant added
that
[WE,
slack wax
A mixture of paraffin
skirt, n.
skunk
slack-water navigation
Navigation made possible in shallow
streams by means of pond freshets (q.
which
specially
is
made
[NO]
sleeve, n.
is
used to cover
two lengths
of pipe.
[D]
slick, n.
type of chisel.
[NO]
slack loops
slick joint
150 to 200 feet apart, and the pipe between the skids sags into the ditch. [OPL,
slick
rod
p. 67]
slack off
To
off;
let
down
[Heard]
slack the rope
pipelining. To release the tension on
the spinning ropes after a connection on
a screw line is made tight. [WIL, p. 69]
SLIDE RULE
See circus rule, educated
ing stick, slip stick.
stick, guess-
Sligh oxidation
test
cating
made on
oils
stability
towards oxidation.
[KOT]
sludge
275
slim hole
A reduced hole which finishes about
5Vz inches and takes a 4% -inch bit; a
West Texas drilling method. The surface
and inner casing are less than one-third
the usual size. [Reported; FO, p. 119]
hole
sas.
fin slop.
The
side
[Reported]
pump
[OPL,
or
through
oil
p. 318]
[POR]
slips, n. pi.
more
wedgeform with a
pieces of steel of
[POR]
slip'
socket
[NO]
slop over
To flow very slowly by small heads:
"The well was slopping over at the rate
of one barrel of oil an hour." [DO,
January 22, 1948]
slop tank
A container for slop, paraffin slop, or
slop
oil.
2.
that
To bungle
a job. [Reported]
slosh, v.t.
To
slosh
polish rod. 2.
An
engineer's slide
[Heard]
slip-stick artist
engineer. [Heard]
slip-type elevator
Slips for
collars.
[Reported]
Steel line
slow-curing asphalt
A road asphalt liquefied with a gasoil naphtha so that it cures more slowly
than other asphalts liquefied with gasoline and kerosene naphthas. See mediumcuring asphalt and rapid-curing asphalt.
[KI]
sludge, n.
S.L.M.
1.
measurement; an abbrevia-
428]
[Heard]
slip stick
An
is
corrugated
fishing tool. 2.
1.
socket on a cable tool which serves the
same purpose as the overshot on a rotary.
rule.
which
run. [Reported]
Any
1.
1.
is
slop oil
1.
crew. [Reported]
in a refinery through
which
slip puller
or
tank. [Reported]
The sewer
Two
may be burned as
always an unfinished
slop line
steel slips.
is
swedge with threads on the outwhich fits two sizes of pipe. [Heard]
To
gas
slip grip
oil,
slop her
leakage of
valves.
petroleum
residue
but it
product. [KI]
fuel
slip, n.
The
after the
worked once;
drilling rig
drilled. 2.
is
Petroleum residue
has been
sloper, n.
slim-hole rig
1.
slop, n.
[LDO,
p.
Any
obtained
[KOT]
from
drill
2.
The mud
hole in boring.
sludge, crankcase
276
sludge, crankcase
black,
of oxidized lubricating
oil,
composed
carbonaceous
material,
sludge acid
[NO]
sludge buggy
A small mobile cart used in a refinery
to cart
acids
sludger, n.
sand
[Heard]
pump
used in
slush bucket
A hollow cylinder used to draw sludge
from the bottom of a well. [RI]
slushing
One
oil
slush
1.
oil
The waste
removed from
slush pit
portion of water.
different grade
a header
line,
mud
[NO]
slug, n.
Drilling
3.
oil)
[POR]
water.
viscous emulsion
is
is
When
oil
of a
A
the
pit
mud
syn. Slush
slush
80]
Slumber Jay
1.
An
electric
To
[BA,
p. 132]
Any
thin, slippery
mixture (mud,
clay,
com-
of the process.
slush,
1.
small hole
1.
The
be-
it moves so fast
often tears things up. 2.
type of
cathead; so called because it reduces the
er;
that
so called because
it
S.M.B.
State mining bureau; an abbreviation
used in drilling reports. [LDO, p. 428]
smeller, n.
1.
oil smeller.
Smith
[POR]
See
cover and daub with a water-
proof material.
is
small pit
Stiff
n.
2.
Waste
oil
and
smoke,
[NO]
2.
geologist.
Stiff
v.t.
To
which
[NO]
drilling.
size of the
slurry, n.
1.
mud-
smart aleck
slump, n.
A change in the altitude of an outcropping bed caused by slipping downhill. [D]
fire
pump
A pump
n.
Steam.
[WIN,
p. 138]
[PO]
snub
277
smoke
eater
a snake can
smokehouse smut
Indecent
stories, syn.
Bull
and verbal
West
Virginia. 3.
smoke point
The temperature
at which a petroleum
product will smoke with heat but will
not burn; a standard test in the industry, since many buyers purchase by this
point, syn. Smoke test. [KI]
adj.
A solid
by filling up
and working down the
smooth-mouthed,
oil.
[D]
smut hound
A worker in a carbon-black
[Heard]
plant.
snakes in hole
job,
[Heard]
skill.
snapper,
n.
sneezing bar
A walking beam
cheater;
wrench
1.
to
be so
an extension used on a
more leverage. [Heard]
time,
tattletale. 2.
ports.
device
down
[Heard]
snitcher, n.
pipelining.
which
pipe
An
electrical
spots flaws in
line.
snub,
[WIL,
p.
detector
the coating of a
164]
v.t.
To run
while
said
to give
snitch, n.
time,
snag one
driller;
snipe, n.
snag hook
snake, n.
1. A Virginia
oil
fail to
See orchard-heating
[Heard; Reported]
v.t. 7. pipelining.
To move heavy pipe by pulling it along
the ground. [WIL, p. 86]
1.
single rope sheave set in a housing which provides a latch link to be
opened for admission of a rope without
the necessity of threading the end of the
rope through the block. [POR] 2.
small, sturdy pulley used to move machinery and equipment. [Heard]
adj.
smother a well
To drown a well. [Reported]
To
rick. 6.
snatch block
smudge
An
n.
it
cools. 4.
smoother,
The
smooth,
fireman. [Heard]
oil is
[LDO]
278
snubbing post
soiled
snubbing post
dove
post in the back-up corner for holding the safety line on the back-up tongs
so that they cannot get out of control.
soil pipe
[Heard]
snub nose
wood,
S.O.
Show
oil;
an abbreviation used in
[LDO,
p.
surface pipe of an
oil well.
In early
was
first
[NO]
as in pile-driving.
solar oil
snuse, n.
Snuff; a field term. [Reported]
ing reports.
The
drill-
428]
solidification point
soap, n.
salt
formed when
of saponified oil is
with a metal. See acid fatty.
[J]
[POR]
solidified gasoline
soap stock
amorphous
light-colored,
Sweet,
waxes used in the manufacture of soap
and in the saturation of waxed papers.
[D] 2. Oil and fatty acids which are byproducts of refined or hardened oils.
[Reported]
1.
soapstone,
by treatment with
having undergone treatment with hydrochloric acid at a high
Gasoline jellied
kerosene
Kerosene jellied by
stearic acid;
n.
given by drillers to an argillaceous shale, the second rock encountered in drilling. Also called mud roc\.
The name
[NO]
soft diggin(g)
used
transported.
solidified
easily
Two
of
the
best
for use in grates are: (1) the absorpby a porous material, pref-
erably
itself
combustible,
as
dry peat,
An
soft-laid line
be
petroleum
petroleum.
solid injection
may
[POR]
known methods
um
with
treatment
as a counterirritant or
as a safety illuminant;
Jellied
socket, n.
device fastened to the end of a
1.
rope by means of which the rope may
be attached to its load; also called rope
fishing tool designed to ensocket. 2.
circle and grip a solid object. [D]
[LDO]
temperature.
solidified
system
injection system in
which
fuel
is
field term.
[Heard]
so-long sand
soft line
tion
soft rope
1.
it is
Marline or marlin.
2.
Any
raveled
[Heard]
S.O.G.&W.
Show of oil,
solting point
gas,
and water; an
[LDO,
p. 428]
ab-
boom in that
nearly at an end.
particular area
is
Southwestern Terminus
279
solubility test
on asphalts
made on
test
plied
asphalts to
show
the
soluble oil
and
[KOT]
BA,
in
sense.
this
[Heard;
p. 122]
soup wagon
wagon
[POR]
sour, adj.
Descriptive
of
petroleum products
having a bad odor which results from
sulphur content. [Heard]
[LDO,
oil
found.
is
p. 327]
sour dirt
solvent extraction
refining of petroleum
of a selective solvent
and
except
n. 2. Nitroglycerin.
source rock
A formation in which
means
nitroglycerin.
The
acid
to
[Heard]
oils
by
which
will
of the pe-
troleum
oil
fect the
remaining constituents.
[KOT]
impregnated
dirt
with
sulphates.
[POR]
solvent naphtha
1. Coal tar and wood naphtha. 2. A
petroleum product of high solvent pow-
sour gas
er.
resulting
[J]
power
made to show the solubility of
lacquer solvents for gums that are used
in the lacquer industry. [KOT]
solvent
test
solvent treatment
out of
oil.
dirt
is
dissolved
son of a bitch
1.
car used to
p. 488]
ported]
2.
14, 1947]
Sour Gas
An
Law
early
name
make
in
dead
a quick descent
an emergency. [BB,
man
(q.v.).
[Re-
containing
Gasoline
refers
sour
oil
doctor
Sour Spring
top Hill;
Mound
soup,
tion
v.t.
acidize a well.
to nitroglycerin,
Soup generally
and is not ap-
first
name
so called because
To
com-
sulphur
test,
pipelining.
signal that a tank just
opened is the same grade as the one being closed. [Reported]
1.
Law
line.
Reputedly the
s.o.s.
refers
n.
A sinker bar
from a derrick
October
[Reported]
sonde [sund],
sour gasoline
which
process by
for Spindleof
the oil
Southwestern Terminus
p. 91]
280
spacing
spacing, n.
In locating wells, the distance from
center to center of location.
[POR]
spaghetti, n.
1.
field
(tubing
is
more
burning. [KI]
ciety for
spark-knock,
specifications standard
2.
Specifically,
v.i.
To
specifications,
A.S.T.M.
of
Specifications
American
the
spark-plug job
but
Any power
rig.
[Heard]
[BO]
of horse-drawn transportation.
n.
S.P.B. solvent
special boiling-point
from
light oils.
drilling reports.
made
product
[KOT]
used
abbreviation
[LDO,
in
[NO]
2.
re-
[BO]
spectacles, n. pi.
tools;
now
[NO]
spent, adj.
1. Empty,
Having lost
as a refinery tank.
usefulness, as oil
[POR] 2.
which no
or clay
spider, n.
special, n.
when
to
mark
the
still
reis
come
1.
[KOT]
specification gasoline
to a certain specifica-
with spaces
made
sembling
special products
Gasoline
shortened to specs.
1.
p. 428]
spear, n.
1.
products,
tacles.
Spdg. or Spd.
Spudding; an
the tubing.
own
when
specs
A
A
oils.
spavined royalty
spawl,
So-
lines
many
seem
to be intertwined.
mon
around a
4. Coiled or
crossed steampipes that run into a still
at short distances from each other. These
refinery.
281
pipes are arranged so that steam may
be forced into the still for rapid distribu-
electricity
also dis-
keep
The
and also
where refined
stills
To
S-P interval
The interval between sound waves.
[PE]
spin-up chain
See spinning chain. [Heard]
spit oil
To
v.).
[SM,
p. 53]
splicing needle
field
(q. v.).
[Heard]
account
marketing. The handling of more
than one brand of gasoline. [SHU, p.
split
139]
[Heard]
end with
Matheson and
of pipe (the
threads).
See
neutral
wax
oil
setup
arrangement or disposition of the
seismograph instruments in a manner
split
which
distillate.
spindled distillate
fin or
rope
spool
[POR]
An
spindle oil
related
One of the grades of refined petroleum. [NO] 2. The lighter portion of the
[POR]
The
[PE]
it.
spoilbank,
n.
thrown
Spindletop
from
to
to
spoil dirt
To
no use
[Heard]
spoke,
n.
The measure
of the
amount
of
oil.
reaches a certain point represents a certain degree the valve is opened. The
valves are opened a certain
number
of
WIN,
line
some
rigs in
p. 138]
An
282
spool
termine whether
[KI]
[Reported]
spot time
spool,
v.t.
To remove
crown
block.
from the
spot weld
To
1.
spot.
2.
by
To weld
p. 82]
spout,
spooler, n.
A drum
that
spool 'em up
To
[Heard]
spool clothes
To
it
is
To
or reel; anything with a line
reeled.
[AS,
v.i.
[Reported]
spouter, n.
spoon,
n.
[Reported]
[D]
sport-model bit
three-cone slush-lubrication
bit.
[Re-
ported]
2.
oil
spray bar
spot, n.
1.
An
bailer.
drilling
November
location.
[Heard;
DO,
v.t. 2. railroading.
2, 1947]
To place a railroad car in the proper
place for loading or unloading. 3. To spot
is
by spraying
sprayer, n.
of the oil
spot market
marketing. The market on date of
sale or delivery; may apply to any class
of delivery: tank car, tank wagon, commercial consumer, or service station.
[SHU,
p. 146]
common
of waste oil in
sump
practice to dispose
holes
lease roads
it.
[Heard]
every particle
air in small
exposed to the
streams (1887).
spray
and elsewhere
with
[NO]
oil
usually similar
to
lubricating
viscosity,
oil,
used
spray wash
Water sprayed through a batch of oil
to cause sludge to separate from oil. [Reported]
spread, n.
spotted, adj.
1.
slang.
layout:
"Many
po' boys
houses."
spot
test, v.t.
To
an asphalt to determine
has been cracked. Cracked
asphalts are less valuable than uncracked
asphalts; therefore, buyers use this method to ascertain the quality.
n. 2. The
test by which buyers of an asphalt de1.
whether
test
it
[WIN,
an area under
[DO, October
p. 138] 2.
lease:
The
extent of
"The spread
of
14, 1947]
spreader
squeeze
283
spread foreman
pipelining.
tire
crank. [D]
The
supervisor of an en-
spudding
spring pole
1.
tool used to work the drill and
other implements in sinking a well; resembles an old-fashioned well sweep.
[NO] 2.
pole which activates hand
tools used in percussion drilling. [Reported]
spring water
Acid (HCL or muriatic acid) used in
acidizing wells. [Heard]
spud,
n.
tool
method
which a line
move the cable up and down.
initial-drilling
used to
[Reported]
is
tool
v.t. 4.
in
To work
the boring
in starting
spud bar
1.
bottom sediment from tanks. It is sharper and broader than the spud bar used by
the pressmen in wedging the wax from
the blankets of the sweater or press. 2.
short, wide-blade, light bar used in
wedging the pressed wax from the blan-
kets of the
spudder,
1.
wax
press. [KI]
n.
tool
modern
2.
[Heard]
spudding,
1.
The
The
first
500-600 feet of
bit
spring, n.
to flow
2.
[McT]
drilling.
spudding in
spudding pulley
metal ring to
initial
step
in
drilling,
per-
fit
and
when
spudding. [POR]
spudding shoe
A device which provides
a ready
means
[NO]
spud
drilling
See spud
in.
[LDO,
p. 392]
spud in
To commence
1.
drilling.
Strictly
spy, n.
square joint
[Heard]
squealer, n.
v.t.
and the
[NO]
To
n.
rig.
spudding ring
oil
squeeze job
284
squeeze job
stabbing salve
See red lead. [Heard]
stabilize, v.t.
To
um
from
[POR]
Gasoline after
it
sure
is
fractionation, in
reduced to a specified
pres-
maximum.
[TH]
stabilizer, n.
squib shot
A small charge (five or
nitroglycerin. [Reported]
which specification
made, so constructed that
tower-still in
gasoline
is
column
six quarts) of
S.R.
To add a
[Heard; F,
new
p. 73]
stack, n.
2.
ss.
To
petroleis stable.
[POR]
squib, n.
1.
casing.
stab
[BB, p. 486]
stabilized gasoline
squegee or squeegee
smoke
for creating
a draft pressure over a fire. The discharge capacity of a stac\ depends upon
the relative inside and outside temperatures, the height of the stack, and the
cross-sectional areas.
[POR]
stack, oil
[PO]
stabber, n.
1.
attends
to
the
stabbing board
A board across the derrick on which
The
opening
stack,
umn. [POR]
standing valve
285
stack draft
The
or in "inches
and
olive
Any number
gases
discharged
by a
joints,
as
one
be
may
depending on the
pipe. 2.
stack gases
oil,
or
1.
[Heard]
cottonseed
oil,
[POR]
stalk, n.
one or more
stacked, adj.
Descriptive of a jackknife derrick that
has been torn down and set aside.
The burned
oil.
number of joints
The number of
or sections of
joints, usually
standardizing system
The dual system (q.
v.)
of drilling.
[D, p. 269]
stack height
The height measured above the grates
in feet; determined largely by the draft
required and by the nature of the gases.
standard
syn.
rig.
set of
standard
[POR]
standard tools
Cable tools. [BA,
stack rating
standard white
The
boiler horsepower.
[POR]
[Heard]
p. 99]
staff, n.
tools.
[POR]
standard white
oil
stage development
stand by
To
oil
tical
stagger wells
and other
[POR]
stand-by time
Time when workers are at the job but
are not actually working; waiting time.
[Heard]
staining, n.
standing, adj.
To
manner
stainless oils
Neutral
colorless)
oils
(usually light-colored or
compounded with
lard oil or
standing gage
A gage taken when a tank
service.
standing valve
textile
fabric
is
not in
[Reported]
pump. [POR]
286
stand pipe
stand pipe
The
1.
pump
along the
[D]
2.
drive-
winnings and
convinced that an
their
reaming and
drill hole.
[D,
I,
straight-
static catalytic
A cheater
(q. v.). 2.
A tool to engage
November
to live.
[GI,
cracking
[KE]
chain
chain suspended from the rear
steel
[POR]
static
To
man
static
1.
region was no
p. xxii]
227]
star post
left
oil
head
a well
27, 1947]
stay bolt
startability, gasoline
The
ability of gasoline to
vaporize and
a steam-boiler firebox.
START AN ENGINE
See bounce off engine, get
kick off.
428]
steal hole
To
Woodbine
start
An
oil
report
drilled.
steal oil
To
from one
without a permit from
the railroad commission (Texas). 2. To
treat oil in a tank that has been sealed
off; i.e., the gauger has put a seal on a
tank to show that he has accepted the oil
transfer oil or waste
lease to another
specified
States,
line.
Stdg.
1. Standardizing. 2. Standing; abbreviations used in drilling reports. [LDO, p.
1.
start for
up
See come
off center,
1.
drill used for making the upper
part of a hole, the remainder of the
hole being made with a drill of small
See blow
boll weevil's
[Reported]
starter, n.
To
[POR]
stayline, n.
up. [Heard]
back to the
for a refinery.
[WIN,
p. 138]
steamboat ratchet
A
steel,
heavy
six
body of
diameter,
barrel, or barrel-like
to
eight inches
in
steam-bottom still
A still in which the bottom steam
is
ad-
steep-roofing asphalt
287
mitted to the oil to reduce the temperature and prevent decomposition. [POR]
[POR]
steam-cylinder oil
Oil used to lubricate cylinder walls,
and
pistons,
steam
The
valves.
[KOT]
distillation
during petroleum
distillation
still
lower
being disto
and
the steam,
to
minimize cracking.
[D]
steam emulsification
The
One
oil for
compounding
test
test
used in
required. [KI]
steamer,
treater
down production;
move any other foreign
cuts
particularly
BS&W
matter from
(q. v.).
oil,
[Heard]
steam gravity
The
than
silica.
.65
[POR]
tenance, contains
which
ing oils and
[POR]
stance
distilling
with steam.
steam trace
made
easier.
for main-
no glue or other
sub-
oils;
be
oil, or a compound
are used extensively for quenching
table
oils
may
oil,
contraction.
[POR]
steel toes
steam-refined asphalt
Asphalt which has been refined in the
presence of steam during distillation of
the crude oil. [KOT]
is
wooden
the
less
and
to
shipment; has
Hardening or quenching
steel springs.
To purify by
[KOT]
oil
steel-hardening oils
[POR]
steam piano
A mud hog
sulphur
steel barrel
steam-refine,
[POR]
oils.
n.
steam and
lubricating
sucker-rod
A special carbon steel sometimes given
a normalizing treatment in which it is
heated and then allowed to cool slowly.
The elements other than iron are about
as follows: carbon .35 to .55 per cent,
of
when an emul-
all oils
fats
steel,
less
and vegetable
manganese
steam emulsion
naturally in animal
steam-cooked grease
tles.
stearic acid
[Reported]
Safety shoes
worn
in
the
oil
field,
288
stem
stem,
is
Smith
Stiff
n.
The heavy
method. [NO]
Tulsa,
men
stem,
n.
pipelining.
[WIL,
One
[NO]
To
moving
stations.
[POR]
p. 186]
The
1.
vertical interval
measured on
the rod subtended between two stadiahairs; a dislocation of the strata. [D]
series of closely associated parallel
2.
box
The box
in
down
To reduce
or amount.
See alternating
blowing
oil
oil is
batch
still,
still,
battery,
still,
tower
n. 2.
reduction in size
shell
still,
still,
still,
vacuum
[DO, March
still
[D]
still.
for
The two-speed
See cheesebox
When
still.
[POR]
still.
continuous
A still in which the oil is pumped continuously from one still to the next, each
still,
still
of
oil.
The
first still
stiff, n.
from
first
heavier series,
cracking
still,
high-pressure, high-temperature
for cracking
1.
the
finally
leg
[POR]
coking
See tar
[POR]
cheesebox
still,
still,
stick, n.
still.
blowing
still,
20, 1948]
still,
batch
pipe
steam-bottom
still, thermal still,
still,
tar
still,
tube
still,
See batch
size,
petroleum
still,
stripping
still,
still,
anything in speed,
step-out, n.
field.
where
reducing
part of a refinery
STILL, n.
still,
1.
The
1.
heated to drive off the hydrocarbon vapors. [POR] 2. A cracking still. [Reported]
v.t. 3. A shortened form of
distill. [KI]
battery
step
step
still, n.
er,
[POR]
faults.
step or interval, n.
tate
[WIL,
stile, n.
step, v.t.
stiff
Stiff.
p.
212]
1.
rigid,
tion.
oils.
See cracking
[POR]
still, fire
See
fire still.
[POR]
still
distilla-
289
lubricating oil
still,
which
still
hydrocarbons
stocks
previous distillation has removed the gasoline, the burning oils, and the wax distillates. [POR]
a
after
The waxy
reducing
A still in which the temperatures are
reduced by a steam supply to prevent
which
cracking or decomposition.
A boom
1.
because of
its
insect. 3.
[Heard]
stink
still.
The
2.
sect.
tar
See tar
bomb
An
[POR]
[WIN,
isolated houses.
tower
still,
See tower
vacuum
See
still
[POR]
still.
residue in
shale oil
is
the
still
crude
used as
after
distilled to dryness;
fuel,
co\e.
[POR]
heaviest distillate
crude shale
grease-making. [D]
of
tillation
from the
dis-
used
oil;
in
stills
in
tor in
1.
which
A worker
in charge of the
oil is refined. 2.
An
p.
still
[POR]
2.
Any
[POR]
Stk.
ing reports.
[LDO,
drill-
p. 428]
setting
applied to a
still.
[POR]
steam
Any
An
p. 228]
stock
An
oil
stocks, n.
supplied
by steam in reducing gasolines and kerosenes; generally redistillation from a raw
distillate obtained from the crude. [POR]
still
1.
fied
to
The brickwork
stock, n.
preheater
A closed tank and pipe-coil arrangement by which incoming crude oil is
heated by the condenser water to save
fuel ordinarily necessary to raise the crude
still
The
of stirrup-shaped fittings
used in the rig and elsewhere. Also called
D-lin\. [NO]
still
still
to the
number
of a
opera-
35]
to
drilling.
1.
pitman
and
stillman, n.
refining.
stirrup, n.
stitching oil
grease
The
[LDO]
stinkumnasty, n.
See mercaptan. [KI]
[POR]
coke
The
p. 138]
stinkstone, n.
vacuum
still,
dis-
[D]
[POR]
still.
usually yellow,
end of petroleum
stinger, n.
an
steam bottom
See steam-bottom
still,
[POR]
product,
indicates the
tillation.
still,
still,
wax
still
the lubricating
distills
in
is
pi.
Petroleum in storage awaiting transfer of ownership or utilization. Producers' stocks include petroleum held on
producing properties (lease storage).
stock tank
290
Pipe-line
erhoused (q.
themselves. [D]
such
products
as
cleaning
[KOT]
when
the
oil
is
flowed
pumped. [POR]
Stoddard solvent
or
stop lock
Stoddard aromatics
A special test showing the aromatic
content of
stated intervals
solvent.
To
reports. [Reported]
v.)
v.t.
stock tank
stop-cock,
bottom of tanks or on
[Heard]
line connec-
[Reported]
roll.
stoke or centistoke, n.
The unit of kinematic
viscosity.
[KOT]
storage, n.
Facilities for storing oil, earth,
stoker's oil
cement, or
[POR]
stomp clutch
in
To
The
stop valve
action
steel.
wood,
[POR]
storage losses
Loss of the light ends of crude oil
and petroleum distillates by evaporation,
leakage,
expansion,
from storage
tanks.
contraction,
etc.,
[POR]
Stonehouse Jack
crete
storm
stooler, 4, 8, etc.
ville,
which
Practically
any
water, will
do
stool pigeon
it
oil,
is
lighter than
test.
[POR]
story pole
uses a
gauge
line.)
[Reported]
Stout Fella
Stout,
straight-run pitch
291
gusher in the Oklahoma City field in
1936 that threatened to be more destructive than Wild Mary Sudi\ (q. v.). It
took 66 hours to bring the well under
control; meanwhile, it had sprayed more
than 1,000 residences and the state capital and covered the North Canadian
River, which caught fire. [RI, p. 260]
straight
dog
plates together
other.
The bar
and
wedging
in line with
steel
one an-
260]
straight-hole test
stout post
See Samson post. [Reported]
1.
stove distillate
A gasoline used in stoves. [POR]
the hole
[KOT]
Light, riveted pipe of large diameter,
up from
riveted,
Casing built
2.
rolled
steel
3.
To
string
v.
one
a time, a method used during
pipelining.
joint at
iron
or
first
[LDO]
is
such a
test.
drilling.
v.t.
To make
2.
[Heard]
straight-pein sledge
A sledge on which the pein
with the handle. [NO]
reaming
method of reaming
is
in line
straight
stovepipe, n.
sheets;
test
directional
stove oil
Petroleum oil removed in the distilling
process between kerosene and gas oil;
usually boils between 500 and 700 F.
1.
poor weather conditions when pipewelders must protect their welding arcs
with shields. [WIL, p. 96]
stovepipe casing
which the
436]
straight-run distillation
A continuous distillation of the
ucts of petroleum in the order of
boiling points without cracking or
pounding with other products.
method
in
from the
stovepipe welding
method
line.
of
making up
joint of pipe
is
joints in a
laid
on skids
high enough above the ground to permit the welders to work entirely around
it. The pipe is lined up with the end of
the pipe already laid and tack-welded
to
it
at just
[BA,
p. 181]
The
oil
medicinally (1436).
[BOW,
straight-ahead drilling
Continuous drilling
culty. [S]
p. 3]
lation.
[POR]
straight-run gasoline
1.
oil,
all
of
the fractions having closely related boiling points. 2. Gasoline in which the ele-
[POR]
straight-run pitch
A
without
This
their
com-
pipe
prod-
diffi-
with
straight-run product
292
straight-run product
A product of straight-run distillation
(q. v.). See also top and skim. [BA, p.
204]
stratigraph, n.
strain bolt
bolt for
wooden
pull rods.
[NO]
strainer, n.
wire-wrapped perforated
Slotted or
pipe which is run into oil sand when a
well
is
finished.
[LDO]
stratigraphic correlation
The determination
of the equivalency
or nonequivalency in age of
separated
similarity, etc.
lithologic
fossils,
[POR]
steel tape
stratigraphic trap
[DE,
escape.
which
cannot
oil
p. 99]
stratigraphy, n.
The branch
which
of geology
treats
and
p. 175]
[POR]
strap in
To
hole.
measure pipe
[Heard]
as
it
is
drill
The worker who takes the measurements of fluids in a tank. [OPL, p. 191]
strap pipe
To measure
drill
pipe
by
derrick
height. [Heard]
Stratford process
treating
p. 558]
stratified
beds.
in distinct,
The
distinction
generally
between
is
straw
oil
light
oil
absorbent
for
rubbing
and
stray sand
1. Sand which the driller did not expect to encounter and of which there was
no geological record at the depth en-
countered.
[DO, February
1,
1948]
2.
The sand below the shales, known locally as stray. The sand above the shales
is considered Berea. [NO]
stray third sand
rock
Rock deposited
parallel,
gasoline
strapper, tank
tillates
distillate
To measure
straw
fine-grained,
muddy
20 feet
above
(1875).
[NO]
the
regular
from
third
15 to
sand
293
streak, n.
strip
To
p. 54] 4.
term used
[NO]
out
[LDO,
p. 405]
stringer, n.
stream,
The
n.
1.
flow
through
pipes at varying
still
on the
[OPL, p. 54] 2. A
horizontal timber which is a supporting
member of a structure. [POR]
surface of the ground.
stringer bead
The
first
[Heard;
LAM, November,
line.
1947, p. 8]
string of casing
strength, ultimate
The breaking strength of material.
who
pipeliner
number
[POR]
string of tools
stress-and-strain department
The engineering department of the
Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company, Duncan, Oklahoma. The term is
engineering and
generally applied to
geological departments where there is
brainwork and to mechanical departments where there is strong-arm work.
[Reported]
stretch, n.
1.
The
stretch before
hple.
[LDO]
2.
field
string rods
connected rigid-
shafts
from
string
up
To
[Reported]
strike, n.
strip, v.t.
1.
The
an
inclined
stratum,
joint,
fault,
cleavage
from the
To find
To make
3.
activity.
drilling of a well.
oil in drilling
successful
a well.
[D]
distillation
all
the
to lubricating oils.
connections; origi-
To remove
still.
manhead
the
plates
from
[Reported]
v.t.
[NO]
4.
strip a well
To
venture in any
pull rods
alternately in order to
[Heard]
lated paraffin
To remove by
down
2. To unscrew
nally a military
string, n.
1.
1.
light fractions
arranged
[NO]
2.
All
v.t. 3. To
pipe of one size. [BB, p. 488]
lay pipe on the surface of the ground,
end to end along the right of way. [OPL,
strip out
To
at
pull tubing
the
same
time.
When
the
pump
is
r*
stripper
294
stripper, n.
The
little oil.
[Heard]
stripper
Law
produce very
stripper plant
is
pro-
stripper rubber
tilling
still
used in the
process. [PE]
[WIN,
farm
bosses,
p. 138]
strong well
A well with a high
[Heard]
structure, n.
relations
strut, n.
compression
member
or column.
stuck, adj.
Descriptive of an employee
work
overtime.
Stuckey of the
[WIN,
I.
who must
p. 138]
F. C.
M. M. Stuckey, head of
Columbia's Andean Pipeline Company,
who, together with M. M. Austin, presipipelining.
The
still
etc.
stripper operator
[POR]
stripping
big bosses:
stripper field
stroke department
first
or primary dis-
stripping tower
A tower similar to, but smaller than,
the bubble tower and so attached to the
bubble tower that the side draw from
the bubble tower enters its stripper compartment above the top tray. Here the
lightest fractions are stripped out and
stuck rods
Rods frozen in the well with paraffin;
sometimes they are steamed in the well,
but if it is possible to remove them, they
are steamed on the racks. [Heard]
stud, n.
sucker-rod hanger
295
er,
sublimates,
[Heard]
[POR]
distillation.
stud, n.
n. pi.
sublime,
To
v.t.
one end
stud bolt
See stud. [KI]
submergence,
The
which
stud driller
The main
driller
distill
on a
rig,
who
a gas-lift line
used in
sees
n.
submerged; a term
is
pumping
gas-lift
to describe the
[POR]
subsill, n.
stud horse
by the
driller.
[Heard]
stud-horse bolt
The
the
band-wheel
bearings. [Reported]
implement used
to connect a tool
to another
stud terrapin
A variation
An
with a
dif-
[NO]
substructure, n.
of stud horse: a head roust-
The foundation
of a derrick. [Heard]
subsurface geology
stuff, n.
Royalty.
[DO, February
The
15, 1948]
box
stuffing
The
tion
[POR]
stuffing-box casing head
See bradenhead. [NO]
stumblebum, n.
A boom-town panhandler.
[KI, p. 247]
[WIN,
in
some
of winter consumption.
[POR]
sucker pole
A $uc\er rod
[WIN,
1.
well.
A short
of pipe.
p. 432]
(q. v.).
p. 138]
sucker rod
sub, n.
1.
[LDO,
subterranean storage
surface rocks.
p. 138]
subcooling condenser
A condenser which cools vapors coming from distillation below the temperature for condensation. [PE]
tions at
artesian
sucker-rod hanger
A device in the upper part of a derrick
from which the sucker rods are suspended when they are pulled from the
sucker-rod joint
296
some
[POR]
sucker-rod joint
edge of a field is discovered by a rig encountering the producing sand below the
salt water horizon, the crew says it has
hit the suitcase sand or the Gulf of Mexico. The term is said to have originated
bits
ejectors, siphons, and other apparatus used to draw in a fluid and deliver it at a pressure or head greater
pumps,
who makes
suds, n. pi.
mass of
air
sugar sand
A name given by
sand encountered in
drillers to a certain
drilling.
test
made on
determine
its
lubricating crude to
[KOT]
are
no longer
profitable.
hydrogen
compound
of sulphur and
hydrogen having an unpleasant odor
which occurs frequently in crude petroleum and at oil wells. [POR]
gaseous
wholesale layoff of
oilfielders.
When
sulpho compounds
Compounds formed by sulphuric-acid
treatment of petroleum lubricating oils
which form curdled masses when
brought into contact with water, and
is
often
suitcase sand
1. Unproductive sand that marks the
edge of a productive field. When the
[P, p. 135]
sulphur dioxide
A gas formed by the burning or
oxi-
suitcase parade
p.
To
Crews may
v.
sulphur-bottom corn
Corn whiskey (East Texas).
[NO]
suitability distillation
that
[WIN,
dressings
suction, n.
138]
sulphide,
suck pipe
1.
many
[Heard]
sucker-rod wax
See rod wax. [D]
To pick up pipe
required so
medium and
also in
some
pe-
summer-black
oil
summer
oil
swab down
297
sump,
n.
hole
See slush
sunned
A
for
pit.
p. 331]
surface hole
The
from
the
first
[D]
oil
[LDO]
surface pipe
See surface casing. [Heard]
trade
a
warm
sun
[LDO,
sump
surface sand
A name given by drillers to a sandstone found at a depth of 90 to 180 feet
in Vanango County, Pennsylvania ( 1 883)
[NO]
surface string
The
test
[BB,
first
p. 488]
surface well
[J]
superfractionation,
One
petroleum
[NO]
re-
2. Special apparatus in
passed over hot coils and
which steam
is
superheated.
[KOT]
The
the
soil, clay,
etc.,
tact
with others.
[D]
3.
The
top plane in a
liquid.
surface casing
casing extending
above the surface of the earth
down past the first water sands so that
surface water and the first spring water
are held out of the well. [KI]
from
n.
steel
to
to
lift
surface, n.
.
swab,
cable
of the parts of a
Salt
drilling reports.
1.
superheater, n.
finery.
S.W.
[KE]
fractions.
1.
rock;
n.
A refining process by which fractionating columns having efficiencies equivalent to that of 50 to 100 theoretical plates
are operated for the separation of particular hydrocarbons from light gasoline
this system.
[D]
Pit.
from
1.
short string of
just
surface geology
A system of prospecting for
oil whereby the geologist studies surface indications and topography. The anticlinal and
To
gossip.
swabber,
[Heard]
n.
pipeliner.
[WIL,
p. 69]
swab down
To
Swab
recover
dry,
ported]
all fluid
swab the
from
hell
out of
it.
[Re-
swab
in
swab
in
To
298
swarm when
start
flowing by means of a
oil
swab. [BB,
p. 490]
fall
swab-man,
A
line
n.
[F, p. 138]
cup on a swabbing
A sell.
swage,
1.
or
[LDO]
and designed
to
fit
two
v.t.
syn. Sloper. [Heard]
the diameter of a pipe by
2.
[Heard; BA,
sizes of pipe.
3.
To
sweat,
tool
on the out-
reduce
hammering.
[LDO]
n.
To
be-
5.
(in
a person or
support of a derrick.
p. 101]
1.
in
p. 428]
v.t.
To remove
oil
from
paraffin
wax by
which
lighter
is
and
separates
Wax
is
separate
from
used
abbreviation
[LDO,
in
floats
removed by the
swallow hole
sway brace
The diagonal
drilling reports.
n.
tool
To
fluctuates, etc. 3.
swb.
Swabbing; an
damaged
side
comes granular or
[Heard]
tool.
ment
swab rubber
and become so tangled that the derrickman cannot manage them easily. 2. To
liquid
solid
when
oil
[POR]
amorphous
presses.
and
crystalline
heated.
has been
paraffin
To
2.
wax
by the
swamp, v.t.
To work as
a helper.
The
originated with
swamper
(q. v.).
expression
[Heard]
sweated scale
wax
oil-
the
sweaters before final filtration for semirefined grades. [D]
swamper,
sweating pan
swamped,
adj.
To
n.
truck driver's helper who maintains all the necessary tools on the truck
and directs the driver over difficult ter1.
rain. 2.
Any
helper. [Heard] 3.
jani-
[KI]
for leverage;
4.
now
swamp
swamp
pipe
pole
swamper
1.
sweating surface
The surface on which paraffin wax is
caught after heating and cooling have
taken place. The vessel is cooler inside
than outside, where wax sweats or condenses as it comes into contact with the
cooling surface. The surface is enclosed
within the sweating tanks. [KI]
sweat over
or cheater (qq. v.).
[Heard]
swarm,
coils,
v.i.
To become unmanageable;
pipes
wax. [KI]
swing
299
swedge,
n.
An
1.
implement
damaged
collapsed or
straightening
for
pipe.
[NO]
2.
monly
called swage.
of a
Swedish powder
Originally,
Copenhagen snuff; now,
any kind of snuff. Used by employees in
refineries where smoking is forbidden
except in restricted areas. [Heard]
Descriptive
petroleum
of
products
sweet crude
Crude oil containing
taste.
per-
[Heard]
or
no
sul-
2.
To
treat gasoline
with an
remove undesirable
chemical compounds. [Heard]
alkaline solution to
sweetener, n.
A producing well used as bait to induce prospective buyers to invest in a
company. [NO]
sweetening
swinestone, n.
Bituminous limestone. [D]
n.
pivoted
a
which
distillates or
[D]
SWEETENING TREATMENT
See copper sweetening process, doctor
Frasch process, hot-doctor
line to a
[POR]
well.
swinging gauge
A method of gauging a tank of oil.
By subtracting the outage gauge from
the reference point (mark on the gauging
hatch), the amount of oil in the tank is
determined in feet and inches. [OPL, p.
'
232]
swinging spider
A
ing
still
treatment,
treatment.
n.
v.t.
in
radiate in
To
still
v.t.
swindle sheet
swing,
little
phur. [POR]
sul-
The
[NO]
no
November
Swindletop,
sweet, adj.
v.).
or
To
[Heard]
1.
little
18, 1947]
swindle,
swedge out
sweeten,
sweet oil
Crude oil containing
tains to
sweet gasoline
move bad
swedged nipple
To
sweet gas
Gas with no foreign or sulphurous
odor. [DO, October 14, 1947]
Gasoline that has been treated to reodors. See also doctor test,
doctor solution, and sour gasoline. [KI]
[Heard]
swedged, adj.
Reduced in diameter by the use
blacksmith's swedge or swage. [D]
line
process.
swing
by which the
cable-tool device
is
in
[LDO]
line
which can be
of a cable.
BS&W
casis
tank
by means
raised above
raised or lowered
The
pipe
out. [Reported]
is
good
oil is
pumped
swing
man
swing
man
300
swivel-bailing, n.
other operators
when
is
he
swivel neck
1. A forged steel connection used between the rotary-drilling hose and the
top of the grief stem. Its design permits
the drill pipe to be rotated in the hole
while water is circulated to remove cuttings.
[POR]
in derision
2.
by
cable-tool drillers.
[Heard]
Shift-breaker. [Heard]
swivel off
swing pipe
To come
outlet
valve
in
tank is continued
tank to provide
through the
shell of the
against
collection
the
water which
settles
and freezing of
from the oil. [NO]
swivel wrench
special
switcher, n.
switch
oil
Insulating
oil
used in
electric switches.
n.
the letter S.
like
[NO]
synclinal, adj.
Characteristic of, situated in, or forming a syncline; the opposite of anticlinal
[POR]
syncline, n.
swivel, n.
drilling.
s-wrench,
(q. v.).
[J]
[POR]
handled.
1.
The low
um
like
form. [POR]
synthetic driller
An inexperienced driller; often shortened to synthetic. See weevil and brake
weight. [Heard]
T
T. A.
Temporarily abandoned; an abbreviation used in drilling reports. [LDO, p.
tack, v.t.
428]
An adhesive asphaltic film used in gluing new asphaltic surface to old pavement. [KOT]
tabasco sauce
Acid used in acidizing wells. [Heard]
To weld
in spot. [Heard;
OPL,
p. 58]
tack coat
301
take-off tray
tag.
An
[POR]
An
apparatus for
making
n. 2. One of the false piston rods projecting through the cylinder head of a
large engine to support the heavy pis-
[POR]
ton.
flash
tests
tail
shoe
The
outer
tail sill
The
[NO]
sill
on which the
strument. The Saybolt Universal readings can be converted into tag. by multiplying S.U. by 0.28 at 100 F., by 0.51 at
212 F. [POR]
take, n.
tag line
take a core
utility
chain
The end
of a
winch
line; a short
chain
house
The house
runs
for
into
test
junction house.
The
work
final
readying
[POR]
work
tailing-in
it
of finishing a well
and
tailings, n. pi.
The
1.
any product; foots, bottoms. 2. A shortened term for wax tailings or gum, the
last distillate passing off before coking
of dry-run crude or tar. [D]
tail
pipe
tail
post
post
sand
tail
1.
reel.
rods
To
or run by picking
ing
shaft of the
[NO]
it
Oil
[BA,
taken,
or
rail
post rests.
bought, from a
lease.
p. 174]
To
by means of a core
bit. [S]
take a hitch on
To pick up something with a winch
or any other lifting device. [Heard]
take a picture
To make an impression of a fish (q.
v.). When none of the standard fishing
tools work, the driller must make a tool
to fit the fish. He does this by taking
a picture of the situation: lowering an
impression block into the hole and
pounding it down on top of the object
for which he is fishing. [BA, p. 118]
The
ment
post or
arm
that transmits
move-
to the
take-off tray
The
place
is taken from
[Reported]
a tower, syn.
Catch
tray.
two buckets
takes
302
bottom
typical
dog
answer a
onlookers
or
driller gives
who
a bird
how
asks
deep
take-up screw
A screw for iron pull-rods or wire
drilling
are
what
operating,
for-
mation
is
[LDO,
p. 397]
tally pipe
To measure
Two
[POR]
tank, crude-oil storage
is
55,000-barrel tank
The
crete.
voir type
[POR]
tank, cylindrical
moving
a rig. [Heard]
[POR]
is
put
[NO]
oil in a
tank, flow
tank, n.
TANK,
made
tank
which
t.&t.p.
tank.
in
stored.
made
which
v.t. 2.
of
oil,
To
and
oil
flows
from
is
fineries.
[POR]
n.
pot,
dump
tank, egg,
and
oil
working tank.
portable tank in
tank, fuel-oil
which
all
the plates
and
gases.
[POR]
tank, gasoline
An
tank, bolted
A
in
other, used in
[POR]
n.
sets
the field.
tank, concrete
tops.
tandem,
oil in
field
crude
[NO]
rope.
1.
especially
tight
tank,
preferably
tang-gauging engineer
33
may
[POR]
A tank used
waste
[Heard]
off as
etc.
oil,
BS&W
from
tank-breather tubes
Outlet pipes for the escape of air and
vapor while a tank is being filled or while
the vapors are expanding during a heated
period; a wasteful process, since an entire tankful of vapor is expelled at every
filling,
[SHU,
tank, vapor-tight
when
tank car
tank coils
Steam coils used
large, vertical,
in
the tank
[POR]
tank, gasometer
of crude oil
tank bottoms
p. 146]
to heat
heavy
oils.
[POR]
refinery-distillate
tankage,
The
storing of
dome
short cylindrical bonnet placed
on
provide a
filling
[POR]
connection.
tanker, n.
A
n.
tank
ship
steel
pumped
tank balloon
der their
3.
The
Diesel,
own
tank farm
for
light
cools again.
[POR]
tank barge
A barge or scow divided into compartments for carrying bulk crude oil
or fuel oil. A barge may be towed by
another vessel, or it may be provided
with auxiliary power. [POR]
1.
power. [BA,
steel reservoirs. 2.
ing
p. 192]
all
Such an
area, includ-
[POR]
tank gauge
A gauge used to indicate the contents
remaining in tanks. [POR]
tank-gauging engineer
A worker who computes the tan\ table
(q. v.) to determine the volume of oil
in barrels at various depths. [Reported]
tankies
34
tap, pipe-thread
tankies, n. pi.
Tank
builders.
[Reported]
tank mix
An
oil,
The
tion
'shortage" of
oil,
tank station
A station on a pipe
are located. [D]
or the
amount
of evapora-
line
where tanks
tank strapper
A worker who measures the
[D]
in a
oil
and
inches.
[POR]
tank table
tank-transportation
vehicles
were
tank-wagon man
wagons. [BA,
p. 36]
[SHU,
at
which
cur-
or
p. 147]
tap, n.
tool
1.
fish pipe.
[Heard]
2.
Any
The
represents
oil;
bituminous
dark-colored liquid
or
semifluid,
ordinary solvents such as carbon disulphide, benzol, petroleum ether, etc. When
distilled
[D]
bottoming
it
tar distillate
1.
A full-threaded
used to
tool
tank-wagon price
rent sales are
tar, n.
fuel
wagons. [KI]
tap,
1.
tilling.
wagon
tank
taper tap
tapered tool used to cut threads in a
nut or a hole. [POR]
tank truck
first
taper rope
A rope with a gradually diminishing
diameter from the upper to the lower
end. The diameter of the rope is decreased by dropping one wire at a time
at regular intervals. Both round and flat
ropes may be tapered and such ropes are
intended for deep-shaft hoisting, with a
view to proportioning the diameter of
the rope to the load to be sustained at
different depths. [D]
of oil
tank. [Reported]
The paper ribbon on which the seismograph record has been inscribed over
a period of time. [PE]
rels
tape, n.
tank steamer
feet
drill
drill
ments in
tap
[KOT]
tank outage
lost
distillate
still.
[D]
affin
and heavy
2.
from a
distillate
oils
tar or
residuum
from which
par-
are obtained.
[Re-
separated
into
ported]
tar oils
1.
Coal-tar
distillates
telegraph cord
305
commercial
following
the
oil,
derived from
fractions:
crude carbolic
oil,
oil.
[POR]
tar.
[Heard]
(sing.)
2.
Oil
An
T.D.
tarp, n.
t.b.p.
[Re-
[Heard]
teacher, n.
tar plug
so
driller;
by roughnecks.
called
[Heard]
TEAMSTER,
n.
asphaltic
oil.
teaser, n.
[Reported]
A
sand
Sand which
tar
well
enough
yields
tarry
[Re-
oil.
yielding
to be of
[Heard; BA,
not
p. 32]
ported]
technical products
tar spring
A
[FO,
tar
oil.
p. 10]
still
A
the
still
first
in
distillation
is
distilled again.
(The
ritory.
Shell Oil
Company,
[Reported]
Incor-
this class
[KOT]
tar test
test
made
cylinder-oil stocks
and other
obtained
oils
The
from
test
and con-
sists
distilled
[D]
an adjuster
field
name
for a
weight indicator.
2.
n.
[Re-
Tbg.
Tubing; an abbreviation used in
ing reports.
A walkjng beam
TEL,
tee bolt.
[NO]
[LDO,
p. 428]
drill-
Tel.
(q. v.).
[Heard]
n.
t.e.l.,
taw,
tee bolt
(q. v.).
tattletale, n.
1.
pipe fitting with one single side outright angles to the run. [D]
teetering log
[Heard]
let at
juster board;
tar well
it
tee, n.
telegraph cord
The wire that makes connection between the telegraph wheel and the engine. [BA, p. 102] Also called telegraph
telegrapher
306
TELEGRAPHER, n.
See bonus man,
Ham,
brass pounder,
Lid and
lightning slinger.
smoke
32 millimeters, during a
kerosene. [KOT]
test
on
tender, n.
telegraph wheel
A metal pulley in front of the headache post with which the driller starts,
pipelining.
shipment of
oil.
[F, p.
sulphur.
[NO]
102]
Tennessee
stops,
oil
Oil containing
ten-spot,
To
much
v.t.
drill
acres.
[RI, p. 218]
p. 102]
telescope pole
See mast and
tent rule
frame. [Heard]
slide
rule, a
telewire twister
A telephone repairman on a pipe
a corruption of tenth
rule;
name
by nonengineers because
line.
it
is
divided
[Heard]
term of
telltale, n.
device in an oil tank which indicates when the tank is full. [BB, p. 488]
telltale flange
opening in an
tion or testing. [D]
temper screw
The
late
part of a drilling rig used to reguthe force of the blow of the drill
bit:
a screw
term used
which
landowner.
original
royalty interest
it
returns to the
[LDO]
1
To examine, or attempt by means of
a reagent to determine, the temperature
.
at
which
light
hydrocarbon
[Heard]
tendency to soot
[POR]
2.
oils
evolve
To examine
test.
test
burner
power
tester,
A
there
temple screw
[PE]
test, v.t.
same
function:
after
explosive vapors.
[KOT]
employed
ing or an
and
valid
sufficient to
beam used
is
temper, v.t.
To dry fuller's earth at a temperature
tempering
royalty
terrain correction
An
lization.
oil
of illuminating
oil.
[POR]
casing
device for
determining whether
is water leakage in the casing.
[LDO]
test pile
offshore drilling.
temporary
pile
thickened
37
tetracosane, n.
A very heavy,
hydrocarbon (C 24
H 50
melting
point
50 to 51 F., specific gravity 0.790 at 60
F.).
[POR]
tetradecane, n.
A heavy, liquid, saturated paraffin hydrocarbon of the kerosene group (C 14
45 Baume, boiling point 252 C).
30 ,
[POR]
tetraethyl lead
A chemical [Pb(C 2 5 ) 4 ] added to
gasoline to give it antiknock properties.
[KI]
tetrahydroterpene, n.
A naphthene (C 10 20
boiling point
162 to 167 F.) found in some grades
of Russian petroleum. [POR]
,
solid
hydrocarbon (C 34
fi6 ,
melt-
[POR]
petroleum.
pipe on
only one side of the derrick, in contrast
to the California style, in which pipe is
racked on two sides of the derrick. Also
called Texas and Oklahoma style. [Reported]
compound (C 32
H 22
first
obtained
[POR]
do
me
An
^f
that's
oil
drillers,
and
thermal alkylation
1. An alkylation proceeding in the
absence of catalysts. 2. Specifically, the
alkylation of isobutane with propylene,
butenes, or pentenes; effected by the use
of concentrated sulphuric acid or anhydrous hydrofluoric acid as the catalyst.
The products are named in terms of the
olefines used in their manufacture: propylene alkylate, buten alkylate, or penten
alkylate.
[KE]
thermal cracking
name
thermal
An
distillation
early
distillation.
[KI]
thermal efficiency
ratio of heat used
number
compared
to
thermal
A
v.).
that'll
by roughnecks,
geologists
The
grows
the total
thallene, n.
[KOT]
them
tetraricontane, n.
oils
still
still
used in thermal
distillation (q.
[KI]
thermal unit
mating amount of
comparing or esti[D]
heat, as B.T.U.
thermoviscosity, n.
high
A viscosity
as kerosene.
test made on
[KOT]
the 32
The
32
every
p. 138]
thickened oils
with small
Mineral oils thickened
amounts of vulcanized rubber or dis-
T-head engine
An
shifts.
three
[BB, p. 489]
308
thief
aluminum
solved in
cants. [A]
[POR]
thief, n.
1.
from a
body of
in the
2.
3.
To
take a sample of
Used
compounds,
in
oil
[NO]
a material.
with a
v.t.
thief.
hatch
thief
The opening through which the samples may be taken with a thief. [POR]
thief hole
gauge
[EA,
hole.
p. 158]
rod
thief
oil
samples
car.
[POR]
thief
from
richer strata.
[ME,
oil
To
fluid.
third
mountain sand
The
mud
A name
given by
the
drillers to the
Fifty-foot
thread up
To screw a nut or a pipe. When a boll
weevil does not know which way to
turn a nut or a pipe, an old hand may
say, "Goes on just like
a plow bolt,
Sonny," meaning that it turns to the
right as does a plow bolt. [Heard]
three-day hand
A worker who is not interested in a
regular job but in a short sta\e, or pay
check. [Heard]
rock
Thompson machine
machine used to test the lubricating value of an oil and obtain the coefficient of friction
thread protector
[NO]
thirty-foot sand
between
p. 764]
down
thin
various
3-way
A
that
bit
to a fishtail bit except
has three blades. [Reported]
bit similar
it
A
BA,
A safety
[Heard;
p. 127]
thribble board
[NO]
thread, n.
of a screw.
thribble, n.
on the face
[POR]
joints of pipe.
thread, pipe
The Briggs taper thread used for pipe
ends and pipe fittings. [POR]
forming
thread, S.A.E.
throttle, n.
[Heard]
throat sheet
the
boiler proper
connection
between the
boiler. [KI]
time squib
309
throttle-happy, adj.
ticket, n.
brake-happy. [Reported]
To
shut
down an
An
official
DO, November
1.
tie in
engine. [Heard]
1.
throw a double
To work two consecutive
2.
[Heard]
throw
To
ly
tie in
his voice
who
is
violent-
ported]
To
let
work;
of the
to
Later,
A command
to start the
bull
off
To
[Reported]
is
lacking
which no
about
[Heard; BA,
p. 32]
formation which is not easily peneby acid. Tight spots are portions of
a formation that have little porosity.
[Reported]
trated
tight hole
[LDO]
[POR]
tight well
thumb
tight sand
through
thumb buster
[Heard]
p. 32]
lines.
tight formation
and flow
fuel
released.
rope
Originally,
1.
do most
[BO]
off the
p. 138]
on
1.
else
[WIL,
tight, adj.
(q. v.).
throw
on one
someone
tie
run.
throw-off hooks
Disconnecting hooks. [NO]
off
on
or
is
pipe
To make
throw
rule
mation
is
released.
no
drilling infor-
[Heard]
tilting stick
walking beam
TIMESAVER,
the stick
tank.
thunder mug
A chamber pot. Also
[ST,
p. 55]
n.
time squib
[NO]
Timken
310
film strength
as
the
tongs, n.
Timken
test
film strength
made on
[KOT]
pi.
Wrenches used
to
screw up pipe of
tongue,
lubricants such as
n.
its
shape. [Reported]
too deep
tin hat
protective metal hat worn by oilfield workers, especially workers on a
The
[Heard; F.
rig.
p. 67]
tinhorn gambler
A boom-follower who poses as a
gambler but makes most of his money
by hijacking. [ST, p. 73]
tinhorn millionaire
One who
oil.
has
made
1.
The
1.
front
v.t. 2.
To
tong bucket
bucket-shaped
is
tong
ballast
thrown
driller's assistant at
[D]
2.
an
oil
well;
The workman
tool extractor
A
tools
or detached in the
Also called
swivel wrench. [D]
borehole.
tool
grab
and
tool grab
into
moved up
tool dresser.
[POR]
tool joint
tong gang
See laying gang. [BA,
p. 179]
tong key
is
sharp
tong
Two men
line
who
operate the
man. [OPL,
specified
Institute.
[POR]
too loose
n.
p. 8]
tong pipe up
To
The
[NO]
to balance
1.
DO, Novem-
toolie, n.
a junior driller.
tongman,
Any implement
who
pipelining.
which
tool, n.
tool dresser
The
a quick fortune in
[ST, p. 65]
An
the bit
tool pusher
builders
torpedo war
311
equipped with a tool rack driven by a
tool pusher. [Heard; S, p. 336]
The
um
tool rack
[Heard; S]
removal by distillation or
other artificial means of an appreciable
quantity of the more volatile componafter the
[KOT]
ents.
topping,
tool shiner
tool dresser;
so called because he
pin.
n.
The removal by
1.
heavier crudes;
[D]
The
2.
from
[S]
complete
1.
the petroleum
component
where
heavier
is
oils
(fractional) of the
except for a heavy residual
fraction. [BA, p. 204]
whole
To skim
To
fill
topping plant
refinery designed to
and kerosene
the gasoline
remove only
fractions.
[POR]
Toppling, Lizzie
A rival of French Kate
(q. v.).
[GID,
p. 107]
tops, n. pi.
light
distillate
from
topping
pipe-line gauger.
distillation
oil
The
top a tank out
light gasoline
i.e.,
too tight
top, v.t.
distillation of the
crude
oil.
[D]
[Heard]
topside, n.
Any
level.
top water
top dressing
Oil used to
a well. In the
early days of the industry worthless oil
territory was often disposed of at an
exorbitant price after it had been treated
to a top dressing with natural crude oil
from a well in a neighboring district.
salt (q. v.)
[NO]
shortened form of
torpedo.
[Re-
ported]
torpedo, n.
A shell exploded in a well to remove
v.t. To exobstructions or reach oil.
plode a shell in a well. [NO]
topographic correction
torpedo
top-middle-and-bottom, adj.
man
topographic high
torpedo war
The higher
[LDO]
v.)
The
conflict
and
W.
[NO]
torque
312
up
in
crevices
veins
rock. Oil
and
pro-
[GID,
p. 73]
amount
of
movement obtained by
of twist in edges.
[POR]
1.
2.
spelled
tower bottoms
very thick, very poor material
left
test
its
fly
spray to determine
destructive
effect
on
[KOT]
T.P.
Tubing
in drilling reports.
[LDO,
p.
428]
pipe
leaks. 2.
and
don-
kittens,
tractor fuel
To pump
from
the
still
at
which
to the frac-
heat,
to
tion,
and
oil
Now,
to reduce oxidation.
insula-
[KOT]
sufficient ad-
[POR]
transmission oils
Oils used in automobile transmission;
generally consist of steam-refined cylinder oil having a flash point of 610 F., a
fire test of 710 F., and a cold test of
30 F. [POR]
An
across
lines
soften
transmission grease
A semifluid grease having
who walked
Originally, a
along
cat, cats
Trans-Panama Line
trackwalker, n.
1.
n.
See buffalo,
peratures.
made on
quantitatively
flies.
transgressive overlap
The cap or caps overlapped by the
process of transgression. [PE]
tower
own;
n.
tower bird
The
TRACTOR,
transformer
The high
its
shift.
gasoline goes
tower. [D]
tower,
transfer-line temperature
rock. [S]
tour, n.
tractor, n.
blending. [KI]
tough diggin(g)
Hard
Company, Hous-
ton, Texas]
transfer,
re-
[KOT]
[POR]
torsional deflection
The amount
by airplane and
torque, n.
The turning or twisting effort exerted
by an engine or motor in turning shafting or wheels, given in pound-feet or
pound-inches. With a given horsepower,
the torque decreases with an increase
in speed and increases with a decrease in
speed.
lines
worker
emergency
pipe-line
the Isthmus
World War
II
of
system laid
Panama during
as a supply artery
from
tricosane
3r3
the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The
line is
photography and espionage. During the war the lines carried petroleum
products to war fleets; now they carry
travel time
re-
aerial
supplies
[WIL,
United
the
for
States
Navy.
pumping
along the
ing up the
oil
one
An
much
the
same man-
apparatus for
[Reported]
tremps,
trap, n.
service
which
field
1.
basin or
pond
in
which
is
[BA,
p. 41]
trap, gas
which
receives gas
from
and automatically
discharges the gas and liquid into sepand mixed
oil,
or other liquids,
oil
[POR]
and unwrenching
tools.
[NO]
traveling block
The block, containing sheaves and
provided with clevis and hook, which is
connected to a load hoisted or lowered
in a derrick. [POR]
1.
[Heard]
[Reported]
lines.
tremp work
The
pipelining.
act of cutting in or
trend play
method
of oil-prospecting which
comparing sands of two pools,
drawing a line through them, and drilling on the line. [Heard; T, p. 77] 2. The
search for shallow production in and
around the edges of an older field.
[Heard; DO, June 22, 1942]
1.
consists of
Trenton rock
An
oil
Indiana (1892).
[NO]
Triassic, n.
geology.
1.
The
Jurassic. 2.
down during
Hard
this
for-
period.
[LDO]
trick, n.
traveling valve
pump.
available
traveler, n.
from
re-
finery collects.
ly oil,
position of wires
water
n. pi.
pipelining.
tions,
refining.
separating
oil.
spilled
an agitator
as
treater, n.
from
last.
known
or washer. [D]
Natural gas
through extensive
from the
pipe-line systems in
To
station pick-
line,
also transported
is
[NO]
treat, v.t.
tervals
p. 186]
transportation, pipe-line
lay
treadle, n.
work
shift.
[Reported]
tricosane, n.
(C 23 H 48 ) obtained from
[POR]
solid
troleum.
pe-
3M
tridecane
tridecane, n.
Paraffin
(C 13 H 2 8)
extracted
from
gravel hog, junk hustler, loose-line herder, mechanic with his brains knocked
out.
trimer, n.
Trucking Train
A nickname for the J. M. English
Trucking Company; usually heard in the
jingle
trimo wrench
A pipe wrench. [POR
"J.
[Reported]
chain."
To pump
oil
truck skinner
A truck
Trinidad asphalt
Asphalt obtained from the large natural deposit in Trinidad. [POR]
driver.
[Heard]
trip, n.
[KI]
true
round
trip.
cal
triple
board
[Heard]
Trumble plant
which can
be recoverec
operating the trip release if the casing
proves immovable. [LDO]
ing,
itself
[KOT]
trunk line
trouble shooter
trip spear
pumper
1.
The main
artery through
which
oil
trough,
are fairly
n.
The low
[H,
place
on the
p. 118]
TRUCK,
main
wagon,
cattle
truck,
TRUCK DRIVER
See
structures built of
line
on which trunk
2.
tariffs
The
have
n.
permanent
dead-in-a-hurry,
gear
jammer,
T.S.D.
Temporarily shut down; an abbreviation used in drilling reports.
[LDO,
p.
428]
tube,
v.t.
To
down
line
turbine
3J5
clip for
gripping a tube or
especially
and
hoisting
tube packing
A bag of flaxseed, or ring of rubber,
made to occupy the space between the
tube of an oil well and the bored hole
to prevent a flow of water to the oilbearing stratum. [A]
tubercular lease
A contract covering land on which the
title is clouded and requires "curing."
(The latter is a term used by attorneys.)
[Reported]
tube
still.
[BA,
The pump
barrel
inside the
working
The
[NO]
tubing block
of a wire-line hoist.
[POR]
tubing board
derrick platform on which the derrickman stands to rack tubing. Originally the platform was made of three 3x 12-
girts.
[Heard]
tubing-catcher, n.
device used to prevent tubing from
slipping back into the well while it is
being pulled. [D]
tubing gas
Gas coming
oil string or
to the surface
through the
oil. [PO]
tubing-hanger
tubing spear
An implement used to seize tubing
when it is unscrewed or broken off.
[NO]
tuboscope, n.
An instrument for examining the interior of drill pipe and checking the pipe
alignment on the outside. [LDO, p. 421]
tubular goods
All classes of pipe, casing, and tubing
used in drilling or operating oil or gas
wells. [D]
projection
[Heard]
from the
[POR]
grease for lubricating the main engine and propeller shaft of ships in the
shaft tunnel; comes in 56-pound blocks
which fit into the openings provided in
the tunnel bearings. [POR]
turbine
oil
well-refined,
specially-selected
pe-
troleum
distillate
turbines. These oils show high resistance to emulsification with water and to
oxidation under conditions of use. [TH]
turbine oils
non-emulsifying petroleum machine oil of medium viscosity which is
sprayed on reduction gears by a rotary
pump. [POR]
turbine
mineral
tubing job
make
tug rim
A grooved pulley, generally equipped
with two grooves and bolted to the side
of the band wheel, for carrying the bull
Oils
hole to
[NO]
being pulled.
The
[NO]
oil
casing.
tubing ring
p. 231]
tubing, n.
is
steam
tug pulley
still
See pipe
rods. 2.
oils,
oils,
for
oils
steam
lubricating
steam turbines;
Since the oils are used in closed circulating systems, they must be free from
acids and sediment or any other sub-
turbulent flow
316
stance that
of soaps
point
is
is
[POR]
used.
turbulent flow
and
to op-
trade
1.
The
for a petroleum-tur-
n.
repairs
made
in a clean-out job
complete overhauling of
equipment. [Reported] 3. The trip from
the oil fields to the refinery and back;
(q. v.). 2.
refers to trucks
To
drill;
turpentine substitute
Petroleum spirits. The term is misleading, since the product is not a turpentine
substitute,
but,
like
turpentine,
is
[POR]
1.
name
turnaround,
A
2.
turtleback, n.
tur-min-tine, n.
The
turnover job
and tankers
that trans-
like
a turtle's back. 2.
worn
twenty-foot rock
A name given by drillers to a rock between the Sixty-foot Rock and Mountain
Sands in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
[NO]
twenty-four,
n.
[LAM, November,
eight, etc.
port crude
1947, p. 7]
[Heard;
turnaround speed
twin, n.
twin engine
turnback,
made by
constructing
p. 138]
n.
casing shoe
WIN,
twin well
1.
One
of
two
wells
drilled
steel sheets
tube to
the other two. The projection is then
turned back over the outside tube and
riveted. This improvised shoe is not so
rigid and durable as the forged steel shoe,
but it is more easily driven because of its
smaller external diameter. [D, I, p. 237]
[DO, October
turnbuckle,
1.
2.
[NO]
line-tightener.
BA,
p. 123]
2.
under
pool.
well that
twist drill
n.
31, 1947]
same
ing to
drill
twist-drill spear
A fishing tool.
[NO]
twister, n.
[BB, p. 489]
underground storage
317
twist her tail
[Heard]
drill
ringer-nec\. [D]
turning
it
two-well jack
bit
[NO]
two-mile hands
Workers who are unwilling to work
farther than two miles from town.
[Heard]
p. 55]
on the bottom
To wear
(1890).
twist off
in
off the
two-hundred-foot sand
A name given by drillers
to a sand-
U
U
bend
See return bend. [PE]
ultimate production
The total production of a well or a pool
in a given time or during its production
life.
[POR]
ultimate strength
The breaking strength of a material.
[POR]
umbrella, n.
A combination cave-catcher which is
used as a bridge for a time bomb and
supports the shot tamp that holds down
the charge when exploded. So called because of its shape: it opens toward the
top of the well to catch gravel, broken
stones, or other substances used in tamping to form a bridge. [Reported]
unbedded deposits
Mixed deposits without former
nite strata.
defi-
n.
two series of rocks and indicating a pronounced duration of time between the
formation of the two series. [POR]
unconsolidated sand
loose,
underclay,
caving sand.
[LDO]
n.
underground storage
Depleted or exhausted oil sands which
serve as storage reservoirs for crude oil
adj.
unconformity,
coal.
[PE]
unconformable,
down
or gas.
[LDO,
p. 499]
underream
318
underream,
To
v.t.
[D]
ing.
unsaturation, n.
underreamer [underrimmer]
unsaturated, n.
An unsaturated hydrocarbon. [KE]
The
n.
used for enlarging the hole below a drive shoe, etc. [D]
pounds
under-the-well, n.
UNSCREW,
tool
A
v.).
rings
under water
p.
under wraps
Descriptive
about which
well
of
break
is
released. [RI,
out,
swivel
collar-pecker
off.
v.t.
drill rapidly.
really unspooling
[ST, p. 138]
is
no information
or
off, strip,
When drilling of a
well continues at a rapid rate without
mishaps and delays, a driller may say he
To
419]
v.t.
break,
unspool,
little
See
(q.
[LDO]
to
it.
Also swivel-bail.
p. 76]
undeveloped land
to
have
oil.
[LAM,
[WIL,
p. 70]
union,
n.
1.
down
at the comple-
1947, p. 11]
v.t.
The
To
unsulfonated residue
A portion of an oil, such as spray oil,
which is not acted upon when the oil is
agitated with a definite amount of concentrated sulphuric acid under specified
conditions.
The
connection
made
The
[KOT]
untest stock
partially reduced; a
single property of
ings.
up,
v.t.
To
[LDO]
fields
unitize, v.t.
To
operate an
(q. v.).
[Heard;
oil
pool by unitization
29, 1947]
1948]
DO, October
uplift, n.
unit lease
Oil-bearing property having more than
two owners but operated as a single holding. [DO, October 29, 1947]
unravel,
To
ahead
let
The
elevation
[POR]
upper valve
v.t.
unsanitary, adj.
Descriptive of a
upper water
tool
or
piece
of
field
[LDO,
upset,
To
name
(q.
v.).
p. 419]
v.t.
increase
vapor lines
319
drill
to casing
[D]
proprietary
latum. [POR]
n.
The
upthrust, n.
1.
An
of an area of the
which usually results in
elevation
earth's surface
[LDO,
p.
428]
usoline, n.
Descriptive of
U.R.
Underreaming; an abbreviation used
in drilling reports.
upset wrinkles
upthrow,
[D]
adj.
2.
such an elevation. [D]
faulting.
name
U.S.P.
V
vacuum
distillation
below
ture.
[POR]
vacuum
A
um,
still
valve, regulator
still
working under
heavy lubricating oils. Since distillation under vacuum permits distillation at a lower temperature, it does not decompose the lubricating distillate. The vacuum is maintained by pump. [POR]
throttle, traveling
valve gate.
lid,
cover, ball,
upper
valve
which
wedge which
and opens as it is advanced or
withdrawn from a V-shaped seat. Also
valve with a sliding
closes
[POR]
valve positioner
device which indicates where the
from the control room.
valve is controlled
[Reported]
vaporizing oil
See power kerosene. [TH]
[POR]
vapor lines
n.
[POR]
valve gate
or slide, which opens and closes a passage to control the flow or supply of
liauids, gases, or other shifting material.
VALVE,
valve,
valve, n.
valve,
valve, regulator
valence, n.
contrivance, as a
a partial vacu-
as in the distillation of
Any
refining. Pipes
from the
[BOW,
fire stills to
p. 96]
vapor lock
320
vapor lock
verifier, n.
1.
tool used in deep boring for
detaching and bringing to the surface
portions of the wall of the borehole
from any desired depth. 2. In gas-testing,
an apparatus which measures the amount
of gas required to produce a flame of a
given size; a gas verifier. [D]
An
vapor-phase cracking
A cracking process which yields a gasoline with high antiknock and blending
properties. [NB, p. 471]
V.I.
vapor pressure
the molecules
apart.
fly
Baume
turpentine substitute of 52
gravity. Both are used by varnish
2.
[POR]
varnish-makers' naphtha
70
1. Deodorized naphtha of 58 to
Baume.
manufacturers. [POR]
spear
used in apply-
trade
name
petroleum product
semisolid
used in ointments and pomades, as a
form of
lubricant, etc. 2. (not cap.)
petrolatum. [D]
lucent,
made
free.
is
When
the fishing
if
the
vis., n.
[KI]
viscosimeter, n.
An instrument for testing the viscosity
an
of
oil.
[POR]
viscosity, n.
The measurement
V-belt, n.
have a
is
body
vaseline
[LDO]
spear has
varve, n.
vasegen, n.
Oxygenated
vibration, n.
shape. [PE]
of
viscosity
with
orifice type, in
which
allowed to flow through an orifice of standard diameter at a given temperature. The time in seconds required
for a standard quality of oil to flow
through the orifice is taken as the vis-
ported]
cosity
vent, n.
has
the oil
velvet, n.
1.
The
See
shallow
flare.
oil
[DO, November
18, 1947]
no
is
an
number
arbitrary unit
which
[POR]
venture, n.
viscosity, specific
wall hook
321
surface of the
distant,
verted into a vaporous state, or the relative amount of heat required to vaporize
the liquid.
volatile liquid is one which
readily vaporizes at comparatively low
temperatures or forms great volumes of
[POR]
viscosity-breaking, n.
position, usually
made by
[POR]
of a derrick
The
volatile spirits
The
ease with
which a
liquid
is
con-
[NO]
volcanic treatment
The
[NO]
volume tank
oil
petroleum
distillate
treated
with
W
wagon top
walking-beam stirrup
stills
while
men
working
to protect
wait on
To
swab
line, etc.
[DO, November
on
14, 1947]
walking beam
A
beam
walk out
1. To walk along
a prominent bench
or contour to plot geological strata within a given area. [D] 2. To walk off the
walkway, n.
1. The walk along
[OPL,
p. 137]
wall hook
A tool used to straighten pipe dam-
wall-hook packer
322
[LDO]
tool.
wall-hook packer
A packer which supports
the walls of the casing.
itself
against
[POR]
takes samples
A gauge rod for measuring the outage of a barrel, tank, or tank car; a
gauge pole or stick. [D]
war baby
The Bayou
it is
brought
washing
oil
purified gas
gases.
[POR]
wash out
To displace
war
line
p. 238]
warm up
To loosen
WARNING,
See
to
around
wart hog
See tool dresser. [Reported]
wash,
v.t.
To
clay.
[D]
wash-around,
One mud
oil
in a borehole, as salt
washout,
n.
wash pipe
n.
fire, fire
wasp's nest
Light bread; an expression used in
camps. [Reported]
waste, n.
1
A mass of cotton or wool threads or
fibers used to clean machinery or to
absorb and hold lubricating oil for certain types of bearings. 2. Loss for which
there is no compensation. [POR]
.
[Reported]
tings are
water blanket
washdown
water-bound, adj.
Confined by water. [D]
spear
[D]
washer,
1.
An
oil
water acid
n.
cycle.
wash boring
agitator.
oil
wantage rod
II;
An
as
of a borehole. [PE]
2.
[NO]
wash in
To pump
wall sampler
One who
n.
water boy
Used in the expression "He came up
from water boy," to mean that an employee has worked his way up in a com-
water
3 23
shaker. [Reported]
as illuminating gas.
water brake
water
[WIN,
called yo-yo.
p. 138]
refining.
sludge so that
oil. [Reported]
of coagulating
can be separated from
water cone
which
in
the
strata
and
water cushion
water drive
To run water
to
18, 1948]
water finder
instrument for ascertaining the
of water in a tank containing
amount
oil.
[D]
and
system of well-boring in which percussion drills are used with water which
is forced
to the bottom of the hole
The
made by
a mixture of hydrocarbons;
but
water
on a locomo-
[POR]
line
The
watermelon,
n.
[WIN,
p. 138]
lower
two
strata.
waterproofing,
Hot
crete
from
different
[NO]
n.
etc.
[KI]
water gas
as a fuel,
(q. v.);
fishing
water packer
water flush
gas
from
terminology
where, as in seining, one makes a water
haul when he fails to catch fish. 2. An
unsuccessful attempt of any kind. Now
transferred to general usage. [Heard]
1.
water-flooding system
A system of development in which
one type of well is used to force water
into the formation while another is used
to extract the oil. The method is used
in very shallow fields where sand condi-
tive-type boiler.
An
water leg
pitch pipe.
water haze
water-coning, n.
The water elevation
and
water haul
1.
method
it
in a line
[POR]
transferred
water break
and used
[LDO]
hammer
hammer
See
seal
is
water seal
A seal formed by water which prevents
the passage of gas. [D]
water shut-off
32 4
wax-house
water shut-off
See shut-off. [PE]
water-soluble oils
Oils which can form a
emulsion with water. [D]
permanent
wax
water string
one
set,
wax
[LDO]
The
called
v.t.
To remove
from
oil
by means
[NO]
1.
grade of color in
best grade
of
oil.
refined
[POR]
oil;
2.
above
[NO]
press
wax
slop
wax
sweater
wax
W.B.D.
wearing surface
The
that
vertical
An
water witcher
2.
[BB,
p.
489]
weather,
neutral oil distillate before the separation of paraffin wax; the primary base
for paraffin wax and neutral oils. [D]
[D,
I,
v.t.
To
the pipe
shell
n.
oil
out of wax.
225]
wax
oil
tailings
residual product
wax,
obtained by running
[POR]
water witch
1.
[Reported]
water white
The
MEK plant.
water table
water- wash,
plant
See
usually
[D]
tured.
1.
oil
The immediate base from which paraffin wax and neutral oils are manufac-
wax
[D]
water swivel
rotary drilling.
man
is
which
The
outside surface of
in
thickness
from
3 25
heat it as with steam, to allow the lighter
vapors to escape into the air. [POR]
weave,
v.i.
wedge burner
high, wedge-shaped furnace at or
near the top of the burner into which is
dumped clay saturated with oily im-
from
the clay
it
til
From
filtered oil.
strained
from high
the top
meant by
weevils got
levels
weigh
wedges,
n. pi.
feed
[Re-
ported]
weight indicator
rotary drilling. An apparatus for recording and indicating the tension upon
a drilling line. [POR]
weir, n.
Slop. 2.
1.
weed
fields. 3.
who
its
weeping core
A core which becomes covered with
tear-like trops of fluid
to the surface.
when
it is
brought
A formation
yielding such
a core is usually found to be low in oil
productivity, syn. Bleeding core. [POR]
weevil, n.
was
lubricator
on
a rock bit. 2.
A new
told to
cator).
process for
A
A
removing wax
still;
named
for
its
barrier or obstruction in
it
re-
pump. Also
weir
fill
the weevil
(i.e.,
the lubri-
distillate
An
driller. 3.
said to
named
inventor. 4.
tate
hoer: one
1.
slop;
weed whore
[Re-
term for
field
scales the
fluid.
itself;
level.
mud
ported]
that
p. 30]
the use of
weight a brake
rotary drilling. To put a heavy
weight on the brake so that the line will
process.
adj.
MU,
mud
ported]
wedged,
up
from
1.
eat
[Heard;
him
Descriptive of a driller
To gauge by
purities
well
well
326
though
quantities,
is
it
WELL,
may
yield water,
it
[POR]
n.
bores water or
1.
The
an
line a well.
[Heard]
well digger
[LDO]
oil wells. 2.
well casing
drilling
filter
liner in the
well-wisher, n.
One who
machine
well borer
well-tube
nonproducing
1.
well-spacing, n.
A system by which the number of wells
to be drilled in a given area is limited.
[DO, October 22, 1947]
digger in
WEP
War Emergency Pipeline, a government agency sponsored by eleven major
oil companies which supervised the conand operation of the Big Inch
Big Inch pipe lines. [WIL,
struction
and the
Little
p. 167]
well drilling
The
oil well.
West
[Heard]
Virginia Rule
measure of a barrel
well flower [flow-er]
A device sometimes used on the tubing
below the packer in place of a perforated
pipe or anchor.
meaning
p. 118]
effort
p. 153]
more
well-head pressure
An
[WIL,
set the
wet, adj.
[NO]
plus 2
which
as 40 liquid gallons,
wet gas
that a
well
17, 1948]
wet hole
well-rejuvenating, n.
The reworking of a well to renew or
increase production. [LDO]
A borehole drilled into a sand containing enough water to meet drilling needs.
well rig
An assemblage of all the equipment
used to drill, case, and finish a well. [D]
ing process
well rigging
See well rig.
well-shoot,
To
fire
v.i.
there
is
retarded. [H, p.
235]
[D]
wet ship
[LDO]
ship's
well shooter
and improve
If
wet string
string of pipe
which
is
filled
with
wiggle
327
oil, water, or drilling fluid when
pulled from the well. [Reported]
whale,
it
is
n.
[NO]
Virginia.
[Heard] 2.
square; so called because one type of square is equipped with
a spirit level. [BB, p. 487]
level.
WHITE-COLLAR WORKER
See fair-haired boy, pencil pusher, pinhead.
what's-it, n.
white
oil
n.
very clear
tions just
whiteruss, n.
Liquid petrolatum. [A]
white scale
See paraffin
white
wheel,
Stick
scale.
[TH]
spirits
See petroleum
[POR]
spirits.
An
man
whoop-and-holler
whip
off
To
break
off;
[Reported]
1.
n.
loose pipe
[D]
2.
who
followed oil-boom
days of the industry
and established palatial sporting
houses in Pennsylvania at Pithole, Tidioute, Titisville, Parker's Landing, Petrolia, Bullion, and Bradford. See also
French Kate. [GID, p. 64]
activities in the early
whipstock,
tool used
[Heard; BA,
p. 133]
v.t. 4.
To make
Wickedest
Town
of
Them
All
The name by which Tar port, Pennsylvania, was known during the oil rush
of 1878. [GID, p. 117]
widemouth socket
whiskers,
n. pi.
wide open
Descriptive of a well that
whisky jack
whisky
1.
setters
stick
and
widow-maker,
allowed
n.
[NO]
level,
is
builders;
from
spirit
wiggle stick
1. A walking beam
488]
2.
divining rod.
tool.
(q. v.).
[DON,
[Heard]
[BB,
p. 45]
p.
W.
I.
H.
W.
I.
H.
Water
328
winch,
in hole;
drilling reports.
an abbreviation used in
[LDO,
428]
p.
An
company organized
velop unproven ground far from
to de-
oil
[D]
the acwell
2.
[Heard]
windjammer,
wildcat, n.
1.
n.
v.t. 3.
To
in virgin territory.
[NO]
gas
Used
and
adj. 4.
1.
n.
of
teller
[Heard]
2.
tall
refining.
(general).
tales
An
air
compressor.
[Reported]
wind
oil
[NO]
wildcat
[DO, October
field.
window,
14, 1947]
1.
wildcat field
pipe;
An epithet applied
Texas,
field;
County,
so called because the formato the Jones
[Heard]
title
wildcatter, n.
for
oil
unproven
in
2.
Gasohave
to
Wild Mary
Mary Sudik. [GL,
p.
297]
trol for
fame;
it
showered
oil
on farms
for
Norman, twelve
miles
away. Also
called
p.
260]
[NB,
aperture in the
winged substitute
type of
gudgeon
[NO]
late;
Winter Garden
winter rig
protect workers
wiper, n.
early pipe-line employee. [F. p. 95]
wire line
drilling cable.
[Heard]
wire-line coring
wild well
oil
directional drill-
An
gas.
p. 498]
An
An
wing gudgeon
line
tional
earth's surface
all
[NO]
wild gasoline
1. Casing-head gasoline. [D]
1930,
necessary in
[Reported] 2.
ing.
bit to
territory.
See Wild
n.
Wildcat Jim
field.
An
Taking
(q. v.).
making a trip
core barrel and the core bit
a core without
The
3 29
[Reported]
work-over
Wonder
title
[HOO,
field.
W.O.O.
or
p. 51]
woo
wire rope
woodpecker hole
hole in the
rope
through
socket
passes. [S]
wool stocks
wire strand
1. A group of wires twisted to form a
stiff, strong rope which is suitable for
guys or other supports, but not for pulleys. 2. One portion of a wire rope (q.
work ahead
To drill: "Crew was running
[POR]
v.).
wire twister
14,
1947]
work
witch, n.
derricks
To work
divining rod or device used by nonscientific prospectors to discover underground oil. Also called witch stic\, oil
witch, and doodlebug. [BB, p. 487]
bit basket
before
WIN,
rickman. [Heard;
p. 138]
working barrel
The steel chamber
witcher, n.
One who
derground
oil.
[BB,
p. 489]
The
[BA,
p. 83]
to,
the lessee.
[POR]
One
stick.
[BB,
p.
487]
from the
field.
[OPL,
p. 261]
witness, n.
1. An onlooker.
2.
drone. [Heard]
W.O.
Wor\-over; an
drilling reports.
abbreviation
[LDO,
wobbling log
A walking beam
used in
p. 428]
work off
To grow more feeble,
jars wor\ off. [NO]
work-over,
as the drilling
n.
w.o.c.
To
of the minerals
working tank
witch stick
woes,
[NO]
working interest
The share or portion
witching stick
v.).
wells.
v.t.
wait on cement to
initials.
October
21, 1947]
pres.
part.
set;
coined from
Wocsing.
[WO,
in such combinations as
wor\-over
To
job, etc.
wor\-over
v.t. 4.
recondition a well; to
rig,
(work over)
go into the
330
[DO, Novem-
crews."
No.
Company
of California
Sublette County,
perior Oil
18, 1949.
[Re-
n.
1.
coil
[NO]
2.
An
worry box
The big tool box
To
wrench
four,
bar.
wrench bar
ported]
worm,
[NO]
wrench
circle
[NO]
wrencher,
n.
pipeliner
of a wrench.
well under
drill a
difficulties.
tool for
tools.
who
[WIL,
p. 53]
wrench monkey
[Heard]
W.P.
Wording pressure; an abbreviation
used in drilling reports. [LDO, p. 428]
wrapper,
wrestle,
tied together at
wringer-neck,
wrap your
tails
her an honest
derived
possibly
wrench,
n.
pipelining.
n.
alligator
number
bend made
in a pipe
The
by
pipe
WRENCH,
pipe.
wrinkle bend
a
See
n.
[Heard]
[NO]
as pipe
n.
number
which are
1.
v.t.
To
wrench,
always-ready
a wrinkle
bends are
formed
by
making
more
wrinkles. Wrinkle bends are not satisfactory on crude-oil pipe lines. [OPL,
p. 71]
yo-yo
33 1
wrinkle chaser
geologist.
[LON,
p. 160]
[LDO,
p.
428]
w.s.o.
W.S.R. or W.O.S.R.
Water shut
off;
an abbreviation used
in drilling reports.
[LDO,
p. 428]
W.S.O.O.K.
Water shutoff O. K.; an abbreviation
used in drilling reports. [LDO, p. 428]
W.S.O.N.G.
Water shutoff no good; an abbrevia-
wye,
n.
pipelining.
Y-shaped connection
in-
[Heard]
X
Xlab
An
abbreviation
for
experimental
laboratory. [Reported]
Y
yards, n.
An
yield point
pi.
equipment. [Heard]
oil-field
yellow dog
1.
yoke,
lamp used
teapot-shaped
at night
on
which
it
used for
adj. (yellow-dog)
3.
One who
follows
dog
driller.
yellow
[Reported]
hammer
driller;
162]
yellow
2.
n.
[NO]
You
Can't
Take
It
You
wax
high
1.
or gas obtained by
plaint.
[WIN,
yo-yo,
n.
1.
p. 138]
yo-yo driller
hole
it
down
332
mechanical
Yo-yo.
2.
used to
standard
rig
truck winch.
yo-yo pipe
To make frequent trips (q. v.). Derrickmen consider yo-yoing pipe a legitimate excuse for quitting a job. [Reported]
[Heard]
yo-yo stick
yo-yo
driller
The
driller
on a
p. 489]
zero
oil
Any
oil
which congeals
at 0 F.
[POR]
zero pour
test
to
perature at which an
oil will
flow and,
setscrew
[T, p. 180]
zone of saturation
An area which contains
zone, n.
term used
full of
capillary or
which are
move with
ordi-
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