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safety training frequency, 189 special operations, 179–188
salt, 65 directional drilling, 179–181
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salt domes, 65 fishing, 181–182
sand reel, 16 well control, 183–188
sandstone, 58 Spindletop well, 11–12, 20, 64–65
SCR house, 98 spool, 88
sediment, 57 spudded wells, 11
seismic signals, 68 square kelly, 114
seismic surveys, 68 stabbing the drill string, 117, 156
seismology, 68 standard derricks, 89
self-propelled barges, 27 standpipe, 130
semisubmersibles, 30–31 stators, 118
Seneca Oil Company, 9 steering tools, 180
service and supply companies, 40, 42–46 stem, 115
shakers, 131 step-out wells, 69
shale, 65 structural traps, 61
shale diapirs, 65 submersible MODUs, 24
shale pits, 74 types of, 24
shale shakers, 128 subsea blowout preventers (BOPs), 52, 186
shaped charges, 176 subsea engineers, 52
shear rams, 184 subsea equipment supervisors, 52
sheaves, 106 substructures, 4, 85–88
shut in well, 136 subsurface safety valve (SSSV), 175
sidewall coring, 170 sulfides, 57
silicon controlled rectification (SCR ) rigs, 94 supply reel, 104
singles (pipeline), 89 surface blowout, 183
sinker bar, 15 surface casing, 136
site preparation, 73–81 surface hole, 136
cellars, 77 surface location (SL), 179
conductor holes, 80–81 surface preparation, 73
earthen pits, 73–76 swamp barges, 27
mouseholes, 79 swampers, 91
ratholes, 77–78 sweet crude, 57
surface preparation, 73 swivel, 110, 115–117
site selection, 71–72 swivel stem, 116
skidding of rigs, 21
skid the rig step, 82
slack off, 5 tapered bowl, 112
slide drilling with a motor, 179, 180 tectonic plates, 60
slingshot substructure, 86 tensile forces, 121
slurry, 158 tensioners, 35
Smith, William A., 9 threads, 121
soft elevating-substructure, 86 thrusters, 32
sonic logs, 165 thumpers, 68
sour crude, 57 Tinkerbell line, 47
sour gas, 55 Titusville, PA, 14
spears, 182 tongs, 48