ESL Lesson 1
Oil in Our Every Day Life
ESL Lesson 2
The History of Mining
ESL Lesson 3
Economic growth
ESL Lesson 4
Delivery Systems
ESL Lesson 5
Cities and Population Movement
ESL Lesson 6
Recycling
ESL Lesson 7
Rubber
ESL Lesson 8
Farming
Glossary of Oil & Gas Terms
The following are abbreviations and definitions of terms (words) commonly used in the oil and gas industry.
“Bbl” means a barrel of 42 U.S. gallons of oil. One barrel equals 159 liters or 35 imperial gallons.
“Bcf” means billion cubic feet of natural gas. (1,000,000,000,000)
“Bcfe” means billion cubic feet equivalent, [Convert using the ratio of six Mcf (6,000) of natural gas to one Bbl of crude oil, condensate or natural gas liquids.]
“BOE” means barrels of oil equivalent. (equals the same amount of energy).
“Completion” means the installation (put in place) of permanent equipment for the production of oil or gas.
“Condensate” is composed of light hydrocarbons in the liquid state at normal temperature and pressure.
Condensates are produced from liquid hydrocarbons which are separated when natural gas is treated.
Condensate may be similar in appearance to light crude oil.
“Development Well” means a well drilled within the proved area (100% known area of oil) of an oil or gas reservoir (pool of oil or gas underground) to the depth known to be productive.
“Exploratory Well” means a well drilled to find and produce oil or gas in an unproved area, to find a new reservoir in a field previously (before) found to be productive (producing) of oil or gas in another reservoir, or to extend (reach out to) a known reservoir.
“Horizontal drilling” (sideways drilling) means a drilling technique that allows the operator to contact (hit) and intersect (touch and come into) a larger portion (section) of the producing area than conventional vertical drilling techniques (up and down) and can result in both increased production rates and greater ultimate recoveries of hydrocarbons (oil and gas).
“MBbls” means thousand barrels of oil. (One M= thousands 1,000’s)
“Mcf” means thousand cubic feet of natural gas.
“Mcfe” means 1,000 cubic feet equivalent, using the ratio of six Mcf (6,000 cubic feet) of natural gas to one bbl of crude oil, condensate or natural gas liquids.
“MMBbls” means million barrels of oil. (Two MM’s= millions 1,000,000’s)
“MMBOE” means million barrels of oil equivalent (equals the same amount of energy as 1,000,000 barrels).
“MMcf” means million cubic feet of natural gas.
“MMcfe” means million cubic feet of gas equivalent, using the ratio of six Mcf (6,000 cubic feet) of natural gas to 1 bbl of crude oil, condensate or natural gas liquids.
“Reserves” means proved reserves.
“Workover” means operations on a producing well to restore (put back in place) or increase production using water/nitrogen/carbon dioxide injection or horizontal drilling.
Conversion Chart for this Text
1 hectare = 10,000 square meters = 100 ares
1 meter = 1.094 yards
1 yard = 0.914 meter
1 acre = 4,840 square yards = 160 square rods
1 hectare = 2.47 acres
1 acre = 0.405 hectare, 1 acre = 4840 sq. yards
1 square mile = 3,097,600 square yards = 640 acres
1 U.S. bushel (basic unit of dry capacity in the United States) = 2,150.4 cubic inches
1 bushel Wheat or Soybeans = 60 lbs = 27.216 kg = 0.0272 metric tons
1 bushel Maize or Corn = 56 lbs = 25.4012 kg= 0.0254 metric tons
1 ton of corn = 39.4 bushels = 110 gallons of ethanol
1 metric ton = 1,000 kilograms
1 kilogram = 2.205 pounds
1 U.S. gallon = 3.8 liters, 1 gallon= 8 pints
1 Barrel Oil (bbl) = 159 liters = 35 British imperial gallons = 42 US gallons or 0.159 standard cubic meters.
(LNG) Liquefied natural gas, Main component Methane, liquefied by cooling to -163°C at atmospheric pressure. One tonne of LNG = 1,400 cubic meters of gas.
Abbreviated to (o.e.) It is defined as the energy obtained from burning the various types of petroleum oil, gas and NGL. One tonne (o.e) = one tonne of oil = 100 cubic meters of natural gas.
1Tonne of oil = 7.3 barrels
See page 9 units of energy compared by EROEI, page 13 API conversion, page 14 liquid measures, page 16 oil and gas conversion, page 62 ethanol and farming measures
peta [P] 1,000,000,000,000,000 = 10^15
tera [T] 1,000,000,000,000 = 10^12
giga [G] 1,000,000,000 (a thousand millions = a billion)
mega [M] 1,000,000 (a million)
kilo [k] 1,000 (a thousand)
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Continue to: World Crude Oil Production Forecast
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Oil in Our Every Day Life
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Glossary of Oil & Gas Terms
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World Crude Oil Production Forecast
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More Oil Fields will be Found
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Some Producing Oil Fields by size
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Expected Oil fields by year 2006-2010
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Future from 2010
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World Oil Consumption 2006
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OPEC Warning
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Carbon black shortages slow down mining
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