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• Make up

  1. To assemble and join parts to form a complete unit (e.g., to make up a string of casing). 2. To screw together two threaded ...

• Bypass

  1. A pipe connection around a valve or other control mechanism that is installed to permit passage of fluid through the line while adjustments or ...

• Production tank

  A tank used in the field to receive crude oil as it comes from the well. Also called a flow tank or lease tank.

• Battery

  1. An installation of identical or nearly identical pieces of equipment (such as a tank battery or a battery of meters). 2. An electricity storage ...

• Reel vessel

  A ship or barge specially designed to handle pipeline that is wound onto a large reel. To lay the pipeline, the vessel pays out the ...

• Stock tank oil

  Oil as it exists at atmospheric conditions in a stock tank. Stock tank oil lacks much of the dissolved gas present at reservoir pressure and ...

• Shaker tank

  The mud tank adjacent to the shake shaker, usually the first tank in to which mud flows after returning from the hole. Also called a ...