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MILITARY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

MAJOR: OIL ENGINEERING


SUBJECT: TECHNICAL ENGLISH 1
SEMESTER: 2 / 2016
Professor: Otoniel Plaza
Technical vocabulary of a RIG
OILFIELD
RIG

Oil & Gas Rig


DERRICK

• Palmar 15 exploratory drilling rig


Santa Cruz, Bolivia
PIPES

• OIL PIPES
OIL BARREL

• BLACK OIL BARRELS


ELBOWS
PIPE COUPLING
COUPLING
VALVES
Pressure Control Valve
CROSS PIPES
• CROSS
T PIPE
• TEE PIPE
• Christmas Tree or Wellhead?

A Christmas Tree is an A wellhead and


assembly of valves, Christmas tree are
spools, and fittings entirely separate
used for an oil well, pieces of equipment.
gas well, water A wellhead must be
injection well, water present in order to
disposal well, gas utilize a Christmas
injection well. tree and is used
without a Christmas
tree during drilling
operations.
Christmas Tree
Function of a tree
It controls the flow of oil or gas into or out of
the well.
OIL PUMP
• OIL WELL PUMPS = PUMPJACKS
ROTARY TABLE
Spinning section of the drillfloor
Natural gas
transporting
pipeline

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