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n: a method of rotary drilling that uses compressed air as the circulation medium. The conventional method of removing cuttings from the wellbore is to use a flow of water or drilling mud. Compressed air removes the cuttings with equal or greater efficiency. The rate of penetration is usually increased considerably when air drilling is used;however, a principal problem in air drilling is the penetration of formations containing water, since the entry of water into the system reduces the ability of the air to remove the cuttings.

n: A method of rotary drilling that uses compressed air as the circulating medium.

drilling with air instead of drilling mud (requires diverters at the surface to handle cuttings and formation fluids).

n: I. the return of a debt (principal and interest) in equal annual instalments. 2. the return of invested principal in a sinking fund.

n: (1) in designing or ordering hoisting (lifting) equipment, the maximum weight that the equipment will be able to safely lift. (2) on diesel electric rigs, the maximum amount of electric power that the generators will have to produce to adequately power the rig.

n: pressure expected to be measured at the surface after a well is drilled and completed.

n: a hard brown or black material composed principally of hydrocarbons. It is insoluble in water but soluble in gasoline and can be obtained by heating some petroleum, coal tar, or lignite tar. It is used for paving and roofing and in paints.

n: A colloidal, viscosity-building clay used principally in salt-water muds.

a colloidal, viscosity building clay used in water based muds. They generate viscosity due to the mechanical interference of their straw shaped bodies.

n: a braking mechanism on the drawworks, supplemental to the mechanical brake, that permits the lowering of heavy hook loads safely at retarded rates without incurring appreciable brake maintenance. There are two types of auxiliary brake-the hydrodynamic and the electrodynamic. In both types, work is converted into heat, which is dissipated through liquid cooling systems. See electrodynamic brake, hydrodynamic brake.

n: The additional device of mechanical brake.Decreasing the maintenance of brake system and making landing heavy loading safe. There are two kinds of forms: one is hydrodynamic, the other is dynamic.

n pi: a classification of injection wells under Safe Drinking Water Act that are related to hazardous, industrial nonhazardous, and municipal wastewater disposal below underground sources of drinking water.

n: a sedimentary rock composed of fragments of preexisting rocks. The principal distinction among clastics is grain size. Conglomerates, sandstones, and shales are clastic rocks.

n: 1. a solid cellular residue produced from the dry distillation of certain carbonceous materials that contains carbon as its principal constituent 2. a residue of heavier hydrocarbons formed by thermal cracking and distillation and deposited in the reservoir during in situ combustion. This residue catches fire and becomes the fuel for continued combustion.

a generally insoluble hydrocarbon that has been oxidized to the point of a solid, often hard mass.