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conditioned mud, 20 fault traps, 62
cuttings and drilling mud examination, 163–172 finding petroleum traps, 65–68
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drilling mud, 12, 20 foundation traps, 61
oil-base, 127 other traps, 64–65
mud cleaning, 133 structural traps, 61
mud engineer, 47 origins and accumulation of oil and gas, 60–61
mud log, 164 outpost wells, 69
mud logger, 163 overshot, 181
mud logging company, 40
mud motors, 118
mud pits, 184 packers, 168, 174
mud pump, 97 people, 44–54
mud tanks, 85 area drilling superintendent, 51
mud weight, 126 company representative, 51
mule shoe, 181 crew safety, 50
derrickman, 46–47, 49
driller and assistant, 45
natural gas, 6, 55 drilling crews, 44
natural gas liquids (NGLs), 57 drilling crew workshifts, 50
neutron log, 165 foorhands (rotaryhelpers/roughnecks), 48–49
night toolpushers, 44 office personnel, 54
nippling BOPs, 159 offshore personnel, 51–54
rig superintendent and assistant, 44
perforating, 176–177
off-bottom weight, 139 perforating gun, 176–177
office personnel, 54 perforations, 176
offshore drilling rigs, 2 permafrost, 73
offshore installation manager (OiM), 51 permeable rocks, 59
offshore personnel, 51–54 personal protective gear (PPE), 3, 50
offshore rigging up activity, 92 petrochemical feedstock, 57
offshore rigs, 84 petroleum era, 10
oil, 1 petroleum geology, 65
characteristics of, 55, 57 petroleum traps discovery, 65–68
origins and accumulation of, 60–61 piercement salt dome, 64
in rocks, 163 pile driver, 81
oil and gas reservoirs, 58–68 pins, 112
characteristics of reservoir rocks, 58–59 pipe rams, 184
oil-base mud, 127 pipe tally, 136
oilwell drilling, early, 16 plastic material, 65
Oil Creek, 14 platform, 21
on-bottom weight, 139 plugging and abandoning wells (P&A), 173
open-hole completion, 176 plug stops, 158
operating companies, 38–39 polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC) bits, 125
operators, 38 pontoons, 30
origins and accumulation porosity, 58
about, 60 porous rock, 58
anticlinal traps, 62 posted-barge submersibles, 24