Oil and Gas Terms Beginning with “C” — Page 15

What Is Cycle Skip? Cycle skip is a false high transit-time reading on a sonic or acoustic log. It happens when the logging tool misses the first usable sound-wave arrival and locks onto a later wave cycle. EPA… Read more →

Cycle time in oil and gas operations refers to the elapsed time required to complete a defined operational cycle from start to finish, with the specific definition varying by context: in drilling operations, cycle time… Read more →

What Is Cyclic Steam Injection? Cyclic steam injection (also called huff-and-puff , steam stimulation , or CSS — cyclic steam stimulation ) is an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) method used for heavy oil and bitumen… Read more →

A cycling plant (also called a gas cycling plant or pressure maintenance plant) is a surface processing facility used in the development of retrograde condensate reservoirs that compresses and reinjects a portion of the… Read more →

A cyclothem is a succession of sedimentary strata deposited during a single cycle of deposition that records a complete eustatic, climatic, or tectonic cycle in the geological record — typically composed of a vertically… Read more →

What Is a Cylinder? A cylinder, often called the pump barrel, is the smooth pressure chamber inside a sucker rod pump. The plunger travels through it on every stroke, pulling reservoir fluid into the pump and lifting… Read more →