Glossary

Glossary

This glossary more specifically relates to oil and gas exploration and production terms.

Echosounder:
Device used to calculate the distance of an obstacle based on the time a soundwave takes to travel to the obstacle and back.
Effluent:
Mixture of oil, gas, water and sand discharged from a well.
Electron:
An elementary particle carrying a negative electric charge. An electron’s mass is negligible compared with that of protons and neutrons.
Enhanced recovery:
Recovery techniques designed to extract more hydrocarbons from a reservoir by physical, chemical or thermal means.
Equipping (a well):
Installing instrumentation to monitor events in a producing well.
Exploration:
Any method used to discover new oil and gas fields.
Exploration well:
Well drilled to find an oil field.