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accident statistics, 189 Index
acetylene gas, 164
Petroleum Extension-The University of Texas at Austin
acidizing, 177
air hoists, 103
alternating current (AC) electricity, 98
American Petroleum institute (APi), 115
anchor points, 159
Anglo-Persian Oil Company, 13
annular preventer, 184
annular space, 126
annulus, 158
anticlinal traps, 62
APi kelly, 115
Arctic sites, 82
Arctic submersibles, 24, 26–27
Arctic transport ships, 56
area drilling superintendent, 51
artificial lift hardware, 174
assistant drillers, 44
assistant rig superintendent, 44
automatic catheads, 102
automatic pipe racker, 152

backup tongs, 141
Baku, Azerbaijan, 7–8
barge control operators, 53
barge engineers, 53
barge masters, 53
barium sulfate(barite), 127
barrel, 10
bedrock, 9
beds, 60
bent housing, 180
Bissell, George, 8
bits
about, 4–5
diamond, 125
drag, 122, 125
matrix of, 125
milling, 123
polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC), 125
roller cone, 122, 123–124
bit sub, 136
Black City, 7
blind rams, 184
blocks and drilling line, 104, 105, 108

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