Glossary entry

Polish term or phrase:

rozwał

English translation:

sloughing

Added to glossary by Polangmar
Sep 16, 2010 14:46
13 yrs ago
Polish term

rozwał

Polish to English Tech/Engineering Geology
zjawisko zachodzące przy wierceniu otworów wydobywczych ropy lub gazu:

"wysypywanie się piasku z warstw słabo zwięzłych zalegających pod dużym kątem (rozwały),"
Proposed translations (English)
4 sloughing
Change log

Sep 25, 2010 15:54: Polangmar changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/32111">Piotr Bienkowski's</a> old entry - "rozwał"" to ""sloughing""

Proposed translations

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sloughing

rozwał - wiert. osypywanie się w czasie wiercenia okruchów skalnych ze ściany otworu wiertniczego.
http://www.teberia.pl/encyklopedia.php?a=ArtShow&ArtId=10785

sloughing - see caving
http://www.boemre.gov/glossary/si-sp.htm#sloughing
caving - collapsing of the walls of the wellbore. Also called sloughing.
http://www.boemre.gov/glossary/c.htm#caving

These clay-containing drilling fluids form a mud cake on the bore hole walls which reduces the sloughing of the incompetent formation as long as the fluid...
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Note added at 9 hrs (2010-09-17 00:44:09 GMT)
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In such cases, the well bore wall sloughs into the well bore. Sloughing of shale and other similar unstable materials into the well bore can cause the drill...
...to swell and to slough into the well bore. Uncontrolled sloughing may stick drill pipe.
Some well bore problems, such as sloughing of sensitive shales, are virtually...
CASING - Steel pipe used in oil wells to seal off fluids from the bore hole and to prevent the walls of the hole from sloughing off or caving in.
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