Trip:

V: shortened form of “make a trip.”

Terms Related to Trip

• Tripping

  The operation of hoisting the drill stem out of and returning it to the wellbore. See make a trip.

• Make a trip

  To hoist the drill stem out of the wellbore to perform one of a number of operations such as changing bits, taking a core, and ...

• Round trip

  The action of pull out and subsequently running back into the hole a string of drill pipe or tubing. Making a round trip is also ...

• Trip margin

  The small amount of additional mud weight carried over that needed to balance formation pressure to overcome the pressure-reduction effects caused by swabbing when a ...

• Trip tank

  A small mud tank with a capacity of 10 to 15 barrels, usually with 1-barrel or h-barrel divisions, used to ascertain the amount of mud ...

• Come out of the hole

  To pull the drill stem out of the wellbore to change the bit, to change from a core barrel to the bit, to run electric ...

• Trip gas

  Gas that enters the wellbore when the mud pump is shut down and pipe is being pulled from the wellbore. The gas may enter because ...