oil field

platform

Raised flat structure

• rigEquipment arrangement or vehicle
• derrickMovable boom apparatus
• semi-submersibleHull partly underwater craft

drillship · offshore · onshore · pipeline · tank farm · separator · pump jack · Christmas tree · wellhead · storage tank

borehole

Drilled underground passage

• wellheadSurface opening of bore
• derrickMovable boom apparatus
• spudPotato, colloquially

bit · kelly · mud · perforation · horizontal · directional · casing · completion · pressure · logging

reservoir

Large water storage basin

• formationCreation or arrangement
• shaleCompacted clay sediment
• sedimentaryFormed from deposited material

porosity · permeability · trap · anticline · fault · seismic · exploration · survey · prospect · basin

barrel

Hooped cylindrical vessel

• crudeUnpolished, raw state
• extractionAct of removing
• recoveryRegaining what was lost

primary · secondary · enhanced · waterflood · depletion · flow rate · pressure · pumping · output · yield

roughneck

Oil platform laborer

• roustaboutUnskilled transient worker
• drillerOne who bores holes
• company manEmployee devoted to employer

geologist · petroleum engineer · crane operator · diver · safety officer · crew · shift · hitch · hardhat

• fieldsbiology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering
• petroleum geologypetroleum, hydrocarbon, source rock, hydrocarbons, cap rock
• offshore industryoffshore rig, semisubmersible, floating platform, helipad, subsea
• resource sitesmine, quarry, coal mine, gold mine, iron mine
• natural sourcesspring, wellspring, mine, quarry, vineyard
• sources of abundanceparadise, cornucopia, land of milk and honey, treasure trove, gold mine