PALABRA CONCEPTO

Bed A specific layer of earth or rock that presents a contrast to other

layers of different material lying above, below, or adjacent to it.
Bedrock Solid rock just beneath the soil.
Belt Flexible band or cord connecting and wrapping around each of two
or more pulleys to transmit power or impart motion.
Belt guard Protective grill or cover for a beld and pulleys.
Bent sub Short cylindrical device installed in the drill stem between the
bottommost drill collar and a downhole motor. Its purpose is to
deflect the downhole motor off vertical to drill a directional hole.
Bit The cutting boring element used in drilling oil and gas wells. The bit
cosists of a cutting element and a circulating element. The cutting
element is Steel teeth, tungsten carbide buttons, industrial
diamonds, or polycrystalline diamond compacts.
Bit breaker Heavy plate that fits in the rotary table and holds the drill bit while it
is being made up in or broken out of the drill stem.
Bit cutter The teeth of a bit.
Bit pin The threaded element at the top of a bit that allows it to be made
up in a drill collar comonent of the drill stem.
Bit record Report that lists each bit used during a drilling operation, giving the
the type, the footage it drilled, the formation it penetrated, its
condition, and so on.
Bit sub Sub inserted between the drill collar and the bit.
Blind ram An integral part of a blowout preventer, wich severs as the closing
elemento n an open hole. Its ends do not fit around the drill pipe but
seal against each other and shut off the space below completely.
Blind ram preventer Blowout preventer in which blind rams are the closing elements.
Block Any assembly of pulleys on a common framework; in mechanics,
one or more pulleys, or sheaves, mounted to rotate on a common
axis. The Crown block is an assembly of sheaves mounted on beams
at the top of the derrick or mats. The drilling line is reved over the
sheaves of the crown block alternately with the sheaves of the
traveling block. Which is raised and lowered in the derrick or mast
by the drilling line.
Blowout An uncotrolled flow of gas, oil, or other well fluids into the
atmosphere or into an underground formation. A blowout, or
gusher, can occur when formation pressure excedes the pressure
applied to it by the column of drilling fluid.
Blowout preventer One of several valves installed at the wellhead to prevent the escape
of pressure either in the annular space between the casing and the
drill pipe or in open hole (i.e., hole with no drill pipe) during drilling
or completion operations.
Blowout preventer Controls, usually located near the drillers position on the rig floor,
control panel that are manipulated to open and closet he blowout preventers.
Blowout preventer Device that stores hydraulic fluid under pressure in the special
control unit containers and provides a method to open and close the blowout
preventers quickly and reliably. Usually, compressed air and
hydraulic pressure provide to opening and closing force in the unit.
BOP Blowout preventer.
BOP stack The assembly of blowout preventers installed on a well.
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Bore The inside diameter of a pipe or a drilled hole. v: to pentrate or
pierce with a rotary tool.
Borehole Hole made by drilling or boring; a wellbore.
Bottomhole The lowest or deepest part of a well. Adj: pertaining to the bottom
of the wellbore.
Bottomhole The portion of the drilling assembly below the drill pipe. It can very
assembly simple composed of only the bit and drill collars or it can be very
complex and made up of the several drilling tolos.
Bottomhole pressure The pressure at the bottom of a borehole caused by the hydrostatic
pressure of the wellbore fluid and, sometimes, by any back pressure
held at the Surface, as when the well is shut in with blowout
preventers.
Bottom plug Cement plug that precedes cement slurry down the casing. The plug
wipes drilling mud off the walls of the casing and prevents it from
contaminating the cement.
Box The female section of a conecction.
Box and pin See tool joint.
Box threads Threads on the female section, or box, of a tool joint.
Brake Device for arresting the motion of a mechanism, usually by means of
friction, as in the drawworks brake.
Brake band Part of the brake mechanism consisting of a flexible steed band lined
with a material that grips a drum when tightened. On a drilling rig,
the brake band acts on the flanges of the drawworks drum to
control the lowering of the traveling block and its load of drill pipe,
cassing, or tubing.
Break To begin or startb (e.g., to break circulation or to break tour.