Glossary
Glossary
This glossary more specifically relates to oil and gas exploration and production terms.
- Refinery:
- Plant where crude oil is separated and transformed into marketable products.
- Reforming:
- Reforming consists in raising the octane number of the naphtha obtained by distillation.
- Reserves (of a field):
- Volume of oil trapped in a rock.
- Reservoir characteristics:
- All of the features that serve to characterize the hydrocarbons (viscosity, density, etc.) and the rock containing them (porosity, permeability, etc.).
- Reservoir rock:
- See oil reservoir.
- Richter scale:
- a scale used to measure the amount of energy released by an earthquake (magnitude). Measurements are recorded by seismographs using a logarithmic scale from 1 to 10 in which each whole number step corresponds to the release of about 31 times more energy.
- Rig:
- a drilling platform.
- Rotary:
- Drilling method consisting of drilling rocks with bits turning about their axis. The rocky debris is continuously evacuated to the surface by a flow of mud under pressure.
- Rotary table:
- Circular plate in a drilling rig that transmits the rotational motion to the drill pipes through the drive pipe.
