Resources and Glossary for those following the Deepwater Horizon Hearings

[Mike 03]

The joint Marine hearings into the Deepwater Horizon hearing fascinate many of us, but I found the vocabulary and explanations regarding certain procedures to be very confusing. After doing some Google searches I found some very helpful resources that provide definitions, explanations and illustrations to clarify some of those terms that repeatedly come up that come to mind like:

Cementing and Cement Job
Casing size and Casing String
Riser
Mud or Drilling Mud
Kick
Wellhead
Loss returns
U-tube effect
Abrasion test
Bottoms Up Test

And so on and so forth.

I found these sites helpful and maybe others will as well, in particular the Schlumberger Oil Field Glossary.

http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/default.cfm

http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com/Display.cfm?Term=casing%20string

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casing_string

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Drilling_technology

The next series of Marine Joint Panel hearings into the cause of the Deepwater Horizon disaster are set for the last week of August.