PALABRA CONCEPTO

Bed A specific layer of earth or rock that presents a

contrast to other layers of different material lying
above, below, or adjacent to it.
Bedrock Solid rock just beneath the soil.
Belt Flexible band or cord connecting and wrapping around
each of two or more pulleys to transmit power or
impart motion.
Belt guard Protective grill or cover for a beld and pulleys.
Bent sub Short cylindrical device installed in the drill stem
between the bottommost drill collar and a downhole
motor. Its purpose is to deflect the downhole motor off
vertical to drill a directional hole.
Bit The cutting boring element used in drilling oil and gas
wells. The bit cosists of a cutting element and a
circulating element. The cutting element is Steel teeth,
tungsten carbide buttons, industrial diamonds, or
polycrystalline diamond compacts.
Bit breaker Heavy plate that fits in the rotary table and holds the
drill bit while it is being made up in or broken out of the
drill stem.
Bit cutter The teeth of a bit.
Bit pin The threaded element at the top of a bit that allows it
to be made up in a drill collar comonent of the drill
stem.
Bit record Report that lists each bit used during a drilling
operation, giving the the type, the footage it drilled,
the formation it penetrated, its condition, and so on.
Bit sub Sub inserted between the drill collar and the bit.
Blind ram An integral part of a blowout preventer, wich severs as
the closing elemento n an open hole. Its ends do not fit
around the drill pipe but seal against each other and
shut off the space below completely.
Blind ram Blowout preventer in which blind rams are the closing
preventer elements.
Block Any assembly of pulleys on a common framework; in
mechanics, one or more pulleys, or sheaves, mounted
to rotate on a common axis. The Crown block is an
assembly of sheaves mounted on beams at the top of
the derrick or mats. The drilling line is reved over the
sheaves of the crown block alternately with the
sheaves of the traveling block. Which is raised and
lowered in the derrick or mast by the drilling line.
Blowout An uncotrolled flow of gas, oil, or other well fluids into
the atmosphere or into an underground formation. A
blowout, or gusher, can occur when formation pressure
excedes the pressure applied to it by the column of
drilling fluid.
Blowout One of several valves installed at the wellhead to
preventer prevent the escape of pressure either in the annular
space between the casing and the drill pipe or in open
 hole (i.e., hole with no drill pipe) during drilling or
completion operations.
Blowout Controls, usually located near the drillers position on
preventer the rig floor, that are manipulated to open and closet
control panel he blowout preventers.
Blowout Device that stores hydraulic fluid under pressure in the
preventer special containers and provides a method to open and
control unit close the blowout preventers quickly and reliably.
Usually, compressed air and hydraulic pressure provide
to opening and closing force in the unit.
BOP Blowout preventer.
BOP stack The assembly of blowout preventers installed on a well.

PALABRA CONCEPTO
Bore The inside diameter of a pipe or a drilled hole. v: to
pentrate or pierce with a rotary tool.
Borehole Hole made by drilling or boring; a wellbore.
Bottomhole The lowest or deepest part of a well. Adj: pertaining to
the bottom of the wellbore.
Bottomhole The portion of the drilling assembly below the drill
assembly pipe. It can very simple composed of only the bit and
drill collars or it can be very complex and made up of
the several drilling tolos.
Bottomhole The pressure at the bottom of a borehole caused by
pressure the hydrostatic pressure of the wellbore fluid and,
sometimes, by any back pressure held at the Surface,
as when the well is shut in with blowout preventers.
Bottom plug Cement plug that precedes cement slurry down the
casing. The plug wipes drilling mud off the walls of the
casing and prevents it from contaminating the cement.
Box The female section of a conecction.
Box and pin See tool joint.
Box threads Threads on the female section, or box, of a tool joint.
Brake Device for arresting the motion of a mechanism,
usually by means of friction, as in the drawworks
brake.
Brake band Part of the brake mechanism consisting of a flexible
steed band lined with a material that grips a drum
when tightened. On a drilling rig, the brake band acts
on the flanges of the drawworks drum to control the
lowering of the traveling block and its load of drill pipe,
cassing, or tubing.
Break To begin or startb (e.g., to break circulation or to break
tour.