- Absolute [n]
Something definite; pure; unlimited; definite; positive; not relative.
- Absolute permeability [n]
The permeability of a fluid in a rock containing only that fluid.
- Adequate [adj]
Sufficient, suitable; tolerable, barely passable.
- Administer [v]
To manage, supervisor, implement, execute; supply, dispense, give.
- Adopt [v]
To choose the correct procedures.
- Adsorb [v]
Take up and hold (a gas, liquid or dissolved substance) in a thin layer of molecules on the surface of a solid substance.
- Adsorption [n]
Process of adsorption.
- Aerate [v]
To supply (as the soil or a liquid) wit air; to expose to a mix with air; e.g. water in some reservoirs is aerated and purified by being sprayed high into the air.
- Aerobic [adj]
Living, active, or occurring only in the presence of oxygen.
- Air pollution [n]
Pollutants which contaminate the air.
- Alkane [n]
Any of numerous saturated hydrocarbons.
- Alloy [n]
Mixture of metals; precious metal (gold or silver) mixed with an inferior metal.
- Alternate [v]
To interchange, take turns, rotate, substitute.
- Ambient [adj]
All around; surrounding; encompassing.
- Amplitude [n]
The extent of a vibratory movement (as a pendulum) measured from the mean position to an extreme.
- Angular [adj]
Pointed; having angles; bony; stiff.
- Angular field [n]
The angle between a camera and an object, angle from which a picture is taken.
- Angular velocity [n]
The rate of change of angular displacement.
- Aniline [n]
A colorless, poisonous, oily liquid, obtained from coal tar, used to in making dyes, medicine, plastics, etc.
- Anion [n]
The ion in an electrolyzed solution that migrates to the anode.
- Annulus [n]
A ring like part, band, or space.
- Appraisal [n]
Estimate of the value, amount, quality, etc.; their appraisal of the stock was too low.
- Appropriate [n]
Suitable; fitting, proper.
- Appropriate [v]
To set aside, allot; take without permission.
- Approximate [adj]
Near, approaching.
- Approximate [v]
To approach, come near.
- Aqueous [adj]
Resembling water.
- Areola [n]
A ring-shaped zone around an igneous intrusion.
- Atmosphere [n]
Layer of gases surrounding the earth; layer of gases surrounding a planet; climate of a particular region; unit of air pressure; tone or mood of a place or thing.
- Atrophaeus [adj]
Decrease in size or wasting away of a body part or tissue.
- Bacillus [adj]
Bacterium.
- Basalt [n]
A dark gray to black dense to fine-grained igneous rock that consist of basic plagioclase, augite, and usually magnetie.
- Biodegradable [adj]
Capable of being broken down by the action of bacteria.
- Bitumen [n]
Any of a number of minerals that will burn, such as asphalt, petroleum, and naphtha.
- Borehole [n]
A hole or drilled in the earth.
- Brine [n]
Water saturated with common salt.
- Bubble [n]
A small body of gas within a liquid.
- Cake [n]
A hard or brittle layer or deposit.
- Capillary [n]
Resulting from surface tension.
- Capillary attraction [n]
The force that causes a liquid to rise in a narrow tube, or when in contact with a porous substance.
- Capillary contact [n]
The boundary of contact b/w two fluids.
- Capillary force [n]
The force b/w two fluids on their boundary which is created due to surface tension.
- Capillary pressure [n]
The capillary force per unit area.
- Carbonate reservoir [n]
A reservoir which consists of limestone rocks.
- Casing [n]
Thing put around something; covering; case.
- Catalyst [n]
A substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions than otherwise possible.
- Categorization [n]
Classification, division into categories.
- Categorize [v]
To arrange in groups, classify, place into category, sort.
- Category [n]
Class, division.
- Cavities [n]
Holes, empty space.
- Characteristic [adj]
Typical; distinctive.
- Coarse [adj]
Made up of fairly large parts; e.g. coarse sand.
- Combustible [adj]
Burns easily, highly flammable.
- Compartmentalize [v]
To separate into isolated compartments or categories.
- Component [n]
Ingredient, single piece which forms part of a larger whole; part, constituent.
- Concave [adj]
Curving inward; rounded like the inside of a bowl.
- Concomitant [adj]
Accompanying; attending; e.g. a concomitant result.
- Condensate [n]
A product of condensation: a liquid obtained by condensation of a gas or vapor.
- Condensation [n]
(in chemistry) A reaction in which two or more molecules unite to form a larger, denser, and more complex molecules, often with the separation of water or some other simple substance.
- Condensation [n]
A changing of a gas or vapor to a liquid; e.g. the condensation of steam into water.
- Condense [v]
Make denser or more compact; compress.
- Connate water saturation [n]
The percentage of water in void spaces that cannot be removed.
- Constant [adj]
Continuous; firm, steadfast, unmoving.
- Consume [v]
Use up (the electrode is consumed)
- Contaminate [n]
To make impure or unclean; e.g. drinking water is contaminated when sewage seeps into the water supply.
- Contaminate [v]
To pollute, make impure.
- Contraction [n]
Spasm;shortening,shrinking.
- Convex [adj]
Arched, curved outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle.
- Corrigendum [n]
An error in a printed work discovered after printing and shown with its correction on a separate sheet.
- Corrosion [n]
The action of destroying.
- Critical gas saturation [n]
The gas saturation below which gas cannot flow.
- Damp [adj]
Slightly or moderately wet.
- DarcyÕs velocity [n]
The average velocity of a fluid through the rock.
- Decane [n]
Any of several isomeric liquid alkenes.
- Defect [n]
Imperfection; deficiency.
- Defect [v]
To desert, abandon, change sides.
- Defective [adj]
Imperfect; deficient, lacking.
- Deformed [adj]
Impaired, maimed; disfigured, marred; spoiled; distorted or unshapely in form.
- Density [n]
Compactness, closeness; the quantity per unit volume, unit length as the mass of a substance per unit volume or the distribution of a quantity per unit usually of space.
- Deplete [v]
Empty or exhaust by drawing away or using up resources, strength, vitality, etc.
- Depletion [n]
Being depleted.
- Deposit [n]
Weld deposit.
- Deposit [v]
To lay down (sand, mineral deposit, etc).
- Destructive [adj]
Ruinous, tending to destroy.
- Determine [v]
To decide, settle; conclude; casue, affect.
- Diatomite [n]
Earth consisting of the fossil remains of diatoms.
- Dip [v]
To lift a portion of by reaching below the surface with something shaped to hold liquid; put under water or any liquid and lift quickly out again.
- Discontinuities [n]
Lack of continuity or cohesion.
- Disperse [v]
Send or drive off in different directions; scatter.
- Dispersive [adj]
Tending to disperse.
- Distillate [n]
A liquid product condensed from vapor.
- Distinguish [v]
To mark as different; see as different; differentiate; discern, recognize.
- Distortion [n]
Deformity, twisting out of shape; falsification, misrepresentation.
94.Effective porosity [n]
The total % by volume of void spaces which are interacted.
- Effluent [adj]
Flowing up.
- Electrolyte [n]
A nonmetallic electric conductor in which current is carried by the movement of ions.
- Eliminate [v]
To remove, get rid of.
- Elongate [v]
To lengthen, extend, make longer.
- Elucidate [v]
Make clear.
- Emulsify [v]
Make or turn into an emulsion.
- Emulsion [n]
Mixture of liquids that do not dissolve in each other.
- Encase [v]
Put into a case; cover completely; enclose.
- Encounter [v]
To meet by chance; face, meet with (difficulties, hardship, etc).
- Energize [v]
To supply with electrical power.
- Ensemble [n]
A group producing a single effect.
- Entrain (v)
To draw in and transport as solid particles or gas by the flow of a fluid.
- Entrapment [n]
To catch in or as if in a trap.
- Entrapments [n]
Allurement, enmeshment, drawing into difficulty or danger.
- Entrapments [n]
Slag entrapments within the weld.
- Equation of state [n]
The equation that relates pressure, temperature, volume, and number of moles for a gas.
- Equilibrium [n]
A state of balance between opposing forces or action that is either static (as in a body acted on by forces whose resultant is zero) or dynamic (as equal reversible chemical reaction when the rates of reaction in both directions are equal).
- Excessive [adj]
Immoderate, exceeding normal bounds, extreme.
- Expansion [n]
Enlargement, increase, spread; development.
- Extraction [n]
Removal, taking out, uprooting; origin, source, descent.
- Extrapolate [v]
To predict by projecting past experience or known data.
- Fatigue [n]
The tire out, exhaust, drain, weaken.
117.Fatigue [v]
To tire out, exhaust, drain, weaken.
- Ferrite [n]
Amorphous hydroxide of iron (found in certain rocks); pure iron; substance containing iron.
- Ferromagnetic [adj]
Electricity, physics pertaining to ferromagnetism; exhibiting ferromagnetism.
- Ferromagnetic [adj]
Relating to substances with an abnormally high magnetic permeability, a definite saturation point, and appreciable residual magnetism and hysteresis.
- Flammable [adj]
Combustible, capable of being easily ignited.
- Flux [n]
Flow; flowing; fluidity, continual change; instability; material for soldering (flux coationg).
- Flux [v]
To melt; weld, fuse; flow.
- Fractured reservoir [n]
A reservoir in which artificial cracks have been created.
- Fume [n]
A smoke, vapor, or gas especially when irritating or offensive.
- Fume [n]
Smog, particles hanging in the air; smoke; angry mood, irritation (fume extraction).
- Fume [v]
To make fume; smoke; pollute; stink up; rage, rant.
- Fusion [n]
Melting, smelting; blend, mixture, combination; union; coalescence.
- Globule [n]
Small globe; small round object; drop.
- Globules [n]
Tiny globes or balls especially of a liquid (weld spatter is small globules of metal).
- Gradient [n]
A part slopping upward or downward.
- Gravity effect [n]
The force exerted by earthÕs gravity on any fixed mass.
- Gravity force [n]
The force exerted by earthÕs gravity on any fixed mass.
- Grid [n]
A regular spatial arrangement of points, such as x-y coordinates.
- Grid [n]
An electronic consisting of a mesh or a spiral of fine wire in an electron tube.
- Grid [v]
To convert irregular spaced points to a regular spacing by interpolation.
- Gridding [n]
The act of determining values for grid elements on a map. The grid element values are chosen from nearby data points.
- Hazardous [adj]
Dangerous, risky, perilous (breathing welding fumes can be hazardous to your health).
- Heterogeneous reservoir [n]
A reservoir consisting of rocks with variable properties.
- Homogeneous reservoir [n]
A reservoir consisting of rocks with uniform properties.
- Igneous [adj]
Of, relating to, or resembling fire.
- Imbibitions [n]
The taking up of fluid by a colloidal system resulting in swelling.
- Immiscible [adj]
A fluid which cannot mix.
- Immiscible [adj]
Incapable of being mixed; e.g. water and oil are immiscible.
- Impervious [adj]
Allowing no passage; impermeable; e.g. a coat made of rubber is impervious to rain.
- Inclusion [n]
The act of including, state of being included, incorporation.
- Increment [n]
Amount or portion added to a thing so as to increase it; addition.
- Inflammable [adj]
Flammable, easily set on fire, ignitable; excitable, passionate.
- Influx [n]
A flowing in; steady flow.
- Infrared [adj]
Pertaining to the invisible electromagnetic radiation situated outside of the visible redend of the spectrum.
- Infrared rays [n]
Rays of light in the invisible spectrum.
- Inorganic [adj]
Neither animal nor vegetables; e.g. water and minerals are inorganic substances.
- Inorganic chemistry [n]
Branch of chemistry dealing with inorganic compounds and elements.
- Intermittent [adj]
Not continous, sporadic, fitful, alternately stopping and starting.
- Interstice [n]
A space that intervenes between things.
- Interstitial velocity [n]
The actual velocity of fluid drops through porous spaces.
- Ion [n]
Atom or group of atoms having a negative or positive electric charge as a result of having lost or gained one or more electrons.
- Irreducible [adj]
Impossible to transform into or restore to a desired or simpler condition.
- Irreducible oil saturation [n]
The percentage of oil in void spaces that cannot be removed.
- Irreducible water saturation [n]
The percentage of water in void spaces that cannot be removed.
- Isotope [n]
Form of a chemical element which has the same atomic number as the other forms but a different atomic weight.
- Iterative [adj]
Full of repletion.
- Jig [n]
A device which holds and guides a tool; device which separate ore (as in a jig used to assemble a joint).
- Jig [v]
To move jerkily, hop.
- Kerogen [n]
Bituminous material occurring in shale and yielding oil when heated.
- Kinetics [n]
A branch of science that deals with the effects of forces upon the motion of material bodies or with changes in a physical or chemical system.
- Laminate [v]
Cover with thin plates.
- Laminated [adj]
Formed in a succession of layers of material.
- Limestone [n]
Rock consisting of mostly calcium carbonate; e.g. marble is a kind of limestone.
- Limestone reservoir [n]
A reservoir which consists of limestone rocks.
- Linear [adj]
Straight; one dimensional; narrow elongated; pertaining to length; involving or resembling lines; involving linear functions or equations.
- Linear flow [n]
The type of the flow where the area perpendicular to the flow is plane.
- Longitudinal [adj]
Pertaining to longitude or length; running lengthwise.
- Lubrication [n]
Application of a lubricant (oil, grease); state of being lubricated.
- Matrix [n]
Something within or from which something else originates; e.g. the rock in which gems, fossils, etc. are embedded.
- Minimize [v]
Reduce (minimize cracking by gradually reducing the heat).
- Miscible [adj]
A fluid which can mix together.
- Moisture [n]
Dampness, humidity; wetness.
- Nonconsumbale [adj]
The tungsten electrode is nonconsumble.
- Non-fractured reservoir [n]
A reservoir in which no artificial cracks are present.
- Oil saturation [n]
The percentage of oil in void spaces of a rock.
- Ore [n]
Natural combination of minerals (especially from which a metal or metals can be profitably extracted).
- Oscillate [v]
Move to and fro between two points.
- Oscillation [n]
A flow of electricity changing periodically from maximum to minimum; e.g. the variation of a quantity from one limit to another, as the voltage of an alternating current.
- Overlap [v]
Extend over, cover a part of; have something in common.
- Oxide [v]
To combine with oxygen.
187.Paleo (combining form)
Old; ancient; primitive; prehistoric; e.g. paleography.
- Paramount [adj]
Superior to all others; chief in importance; above others; supreme.
- Penetrate [v]
To pass into, enter, pierce; permeate.
- Penetration [n]
Passing into, piercing, permeation.
- Percolation [n]
To cause (a solvent)
To pass through a permeable substance.
- Permeability [n]
The ability to be entered; a measure of how easily a fluid can flow through the void spaces in the rock.
- Permeable [adj]
Allowing the passage of liquids or gases through it.
- Perturbation [n]
Discompose.
- Photon [n]
A quantum of radiant energy, moving as a unit with the velocity of light.
- Polarity [n]
AC current alternates between positive and negative polarities.
- Polymer [n]
A mixture of compounds formed by polymerization and consisting essentially of repeating structural units.
- Pore [n]
A very small opening for perspiration, absorption, etc.; a small interstice as in soil admitting absorption or passage of liquid.
- Porosity [n]
The percentage of void space in the rock; the ratio of the volume of interstices of a material to the volume of its mass.
- Porosity [n]
The ratio of the volume of interstices of a material to the volume of its mass; a porous structure or part.
- Porous [adj]
Full pores; permeable by water, air, etc.; e.g. clothes, blotting paper, and earthenware are porous.
- Precipitate [v]
To throw something violently.
- Priority [n]
Preference, precedence; higher rank, privileged position; seniority, precedence.
- Procedure [n]
Routine, protocol; course of action; subroutine, sequence of instructions.
- Proxy [n]
Power to act for another.
- Quadratic [adj]
Like a square; involving terms of the second degree at most.
- Qualifying [adj]
Serving to make fit or competent, modify.
- Radial flow [n]
The type of flow where the area perpendicular to the flow is circular.
- Radiation [n]
Energy radiation in the form of waves or particles; process of emitting energy in electromagnetic waves or moving particles; act of emitting, act of beaming or glowing.
- Radioactive [adj]
Emitting energy as a result of atomic decay, radiating energy in waves or moving particles.
- Radioactive [n]
Radioactive isotope.
- Ray [n]
Beam; flicker, gleam; trace or hint of something.
- Ray [v]
Radiate, give off rays, produce beams.
- Reagent [n]
Substance used because of its chemical or biological activity.
- Receptacle [n]
Container, vessel.
- Relative permeability [n]
The ratio of permeability of a fluid in a rock which contains other fluids to the permeability of the same fluid in a rock which contains only that fluid.
- Repulsion [n]
The action of driving back.
- Reservoir simulation [n]
The process of creating or re-conducting the actual reservoir environment on a computer program.
- Residual [adj]
Relating to a remainder; of a residue; leftover, remaining, left as a residue; remaining after largest quantity or part has been subtracted or has gone.
- Residual [adj]
The difference between results obtained by observation and by computation from a formula or between the mean of several observations and any one of them.
- Residual water saturation [n]
The percentage of water in void spaces that cannot be removed.
- Residue [n]
Remainder, rest, material that remains after part is removed.
- Retardant [adj]
Hindering, tending to slow down a particular action, delaying.
- (where fire retardant clothing).
- Retrograde [v]
Moving, occurring, or performed in a backward direction.
- Rheological [adj]
The ability to flow or be deformed.
- Rheology [n]
Science that deals with flow and alteration of form of matter.
- Rigid [adj]
Stiff, inflexible; fixed in place, firmly set; strict, severe, stringent.
- Ripples [n]
Small waves, small undulation; small wave-like formation; rough finished surface.
- Ripples [n]
They should be even through the weld.
- Rotary [adj]
Turning on an axis like a wheel.
- Salinity [n]
Saltiness; saline condition; e.g. a salt spring, well or marsh.
- Sandstone reservoir [n]
A reservoir which consists of sandstone rocks.
- Saturation [n]
The percentage of total void space in a rock occupied by a particular fluid.
- Scalability [n]
Capable of being easily expanded or upgraded on demand.
- Scatter [n]
Sprinkle, dissipation; diffusing, throwing loosely about; small quantity.
- Scatter [v]
Sprinkle, disseminate; spread, disperse; be sprinkled.
- Secondary oil recovery [n]
The production of oil using water flooding.
- Sediment [n]
Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; e.g. each year the Nile overflows and deposits sediment on the land.
- Seismic [adj]
Earthshaking.
- Shale [n]
A rock formed from hardened clay, mud, or silt in thin layers, which split easily.
- Shallow [adj]
Having little depth, not deep; superficial, not concerned with serious intellectual matters; weak, breathing in very little air.
- Shear [n]
A cutting implement similar to a pair of scissors but typically larger.
- Shrinkage [n]
Contraction, process of becoming smaller, process of shrinking; amount by which something becomes smaller; decrease in value, depreciation.
- Silicate [n]
A salt or ester derived from a sadistic acid.
- Slag [n]
Residue or ore separated from a metal during the smelting process; scoria, cinder like pieces of lava.
- Slag [v]
To form into slag.
- Slag inclusion [n]
The waste of inclusions.
- Solubility [n]
Quality that substances have of being dissolved easily; e.g. the solubility of sugar in water.
- Soluble [adj]
That can be made into liquid; e.g. salt is soluble in water.
- Solvency [n]
The ability of being dissolved.
- Spatter [n]
Splashing or scattering of small drops, spraying; spot of something spattered.
- Spatter [v]
To splash or scatter in small drops; sprinkle, spot, spray; send out small drops.
- Specimens [n]
Examples, part seen as typical of a whole; sample taken for the purpose of analysis or testing.
- Spectroscope [n]
An instrument for forming and examining spectra especially in the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- Spectrum [n]
The range of colors (as seen in a rainbow).
- Splash [v]
To dash a liquid, spatter, spray, wet or mark by spattering with a liquid; move through a liquid and scatter or dash it about; be spattered; mark with contrasting colors; display conspicuously.
- Stabilize [v]
To make stable; become stable; maintain a given level.
- Stabilize [v]
Voltage is enough to stabilize the arc.
- Stoichiometric [adj]
The quantitative relationship between two or more substances especially in processes involving physical and chemical change.
- Stress [n]
The force applied to a body that can result in deformation, or strain, usually described in terms of magnitude per unit of area, or intensity.
- Sufficient [adj]
Enough, adequate.
- Swab [n]
A mop for cleaning decks, floors, etc..
- Swab [v]
To clean with or as if with a swab.
- Synergic [adj]
Working together.
- Technique [n]
Method of performance, technical skill, manner in which technical details are treated.
- Tensile [adj]
Capable of being stretched.
- Terminal [n]
End, extremely, closing, concluding, final.
- Tertiary oil recovery [n]
The production of oil by injection of substances other than water.
- Thermal [adj]
Designed to prevent the dissimilation of body heat.
- Thermostable [adj]
Stable when heated.
- Threshold capillary pressure [n]
The capillary pressure b/w two phases above which one fluid would start displacing the other.
- Torsional [adj]
The state of being twisted.
- Total porosity [n]
The total % by volume of void spaces in the rock.
- Toxic [adj]
Poisonous, noxious, deadly.
- Toxic [adj]
Welding produces toxic fumes.
- Transverse [n]
Something which lies in an opposite direction, something which lies in a cross direction.
- Traverse [n]
Something that crosses or lies across.
- Tungsten [n]
Bright-gray rare metallic element having a high melting point and used in alloys of metal (chemistry); element found in electric lamp filaments and high-speed cutting tools.
- Twist [v]
Turn with a winding motion; wind.
- Ultrasonic [adj]
Having a frequency above the range of sound audible to the human air (of waves, vibration, etc).
- Uniform [adj]
Similar, alike, constant, even, unvarying; supply with uniforms; cause to be uniform.
- Upscaling [n]
Of a superior quality.
- Variation [n]
The act or instance of varying; degree of diversity; change; modified version.
- Velocity [n]
Quickness of motion; speed; swiftness; e.g. the velocity of light is about 186, 000 miles per second.
- Ventilation [n]
Free exposure to air.
- Viscosity [n]
The property of resistance to flow in a fluid or semfluid.
- Viscous [adj]
Thick like heavy syrup or glue; sticky.
- Volumetric [adj]
Involving the measurement of volume.
- Vug [n]
A small unfilled cavity in a lode or in rock.
- Water flood [n]
The process of infecting water into the reservoir to displace oil so that oil can be recovered.
- Water saturation [n]
The percentage of water in void spaces of a rock.
- Weld [n]
The act or instance of uniting metal parts through fusion with heat; welded part of joint.
- Weld [v]
To unite or fuse metal by means of heat; unite, attach, join; be welded, be capable of being welded.
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