Directional Drilling

The practice of steering the trajectory of a well during drilling from vertical to a deviated angle, including horizontal drilling used for oil and gas production from poorly permeable rocks. Directional drilling may also be used to maneuver around obstructions or to drill beneath areas that are inaccessible on the surface.

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Word of the Week – Cyclone Separator

Word of the Week – Cyclone Separator

Cyclone Separator A large cylindrical vessel attached to two-phase production pipelines in geothermal fields that is used to separate dry steam from a fast-moving two-phase fluid. Steam...

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Word of the Week – DAS

Word of the Week – DAS

DAS Distributed Acoustic Sensor. Involves the deployment of fiber optic cable on the surface or in a well, and the detection of small variations in the refractive index of the fiber based...

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Word of the Week – DFIT

Word of the Week – DFIT

DFIT Diagnostic Fracture Injection Test. A subsurface well test in which pressure is monitored as a small volume of fluid is injected into a reservoir to develop a hydraulic fracture....

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