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Dictionary of Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Processing
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Dictionary of Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Processing

by Alireza Bahadori, Chikezie Nwaoha, Malcolm William Clark
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
478 pages
16h 29m
English
CRC Press
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Breakout Block
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reakout Block: A plate that ts in the rotary table and holds the drill bit
while it is being unscrewed from the drill collar.
Breakout Cathead: A device attached to the catshaft of the drawworks, used
as a power source for the tongs that is used in unscrewing the drill pipe; usu-
ally located opposite the driller’s side of the drawworks.
Breakout (Drilling): An enlargement of the borehole.
Break Point: The point in time when the efuent contaminant concentration
in a controlled air stream (usually an adsorption device) begins to increase
as the adsorbing device becomes saturated.
Breakthrough: (1) A ood front breaking
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