Confining pressure:

Includes overburden.

Terms Related to Confining pressure

• Lithostatic pressure

  Overburden pressure of rocks at a depth.

• Gas lift

  The process of raising or lifting fluid from a well by injecting gas down the well through tubing or through the tubing-casing annulus. Injected gas ...

• Abnormal pressure

  1. Pressure exceeding or falling below the normal pressure to be expected at a given depth. Normal pressure increases approximately 0.465 psi per foot of ...

• Mud pump

  A large, high-pressure reciprocating pump used to circulate the mud on a drilling rig. A typical mud pump is a two-cylinder, double-acting or a three-cylinder, ...

• Collapse pressure

  The pressure at which a tube, or vessel, will catastrophically deform as a result of differential pressure acting from outside to inside of the vessel or ...

• Magnetic survey

  An exploration method in which an instrument that measure the intensity of the natural magnetic forces existing in the earth's subsurface is passed over the ...

• Bleed off

  1. Reduce pressure by letting oil or gas escape at a low rate. 2. To equalize or relieve pressure from a vessel or system. At ...