- Aboveground crossing
- Accident
- Aeration tank
- Aggressive (corrosive) water
- Air cooler
- Arctic pipelines
- Associated petroleum gas
- Back-stripping analysis
- Barbotage
- Barrage
- Barrel
- Bio-indication
- Bottomhole zone
- Box-and-pin joint (tool joint)
- Carbon black
- Casing string
- Catagenesis of organic substance
- Cavernosity
- Clogging
- Column equipment
- Comprehensive gas treatment unit
- Compressed natural gas filling stations
- Compressing
- Compressor station
- Condensate recovery factor
- Connector
- Core sample
- Correlation
- Corrosion
- Cratering
- Directional drilling
- Distillation-based separation of multi-component fluids
- Diversification
- Drilling
- Drilling (penetration) rate
- Drilling rig
- Dry gas
- Expander
- Extreme anhydrous depression
- Failure in gas industry
- Field development techniques
- Fishing tool
- Flammability limit
- Flare unit
- Fluid
- Fluid dynamics
- Flushing out of well
- Fore deep
- Formation
- Formation pressure
- Formation testing
- Fossil (stratum, reservoir, formation) water
- Free (non-associated) gas
- Free-piston pumping
- Fuel equivalent
- Gas absorption
- Gas adsorption
- Gas cap
- Gas condensate fields
- Gas consumption rate
- Gas deposit water cut
- Gas desorption
- Gas disposition terminal
- Gas distribution network
- Gas distribution plant (GDP)
- Gas engines
- Gas hydrates
- Gas hydrates self-conservation
- Gas interchangeability
- Gas jet ejector
- Gas linepipe
- Gas macrojamming
- Gas processing plant
- Gas separation
- Gas stripping
- Gas supply to consumers
- Gas throttling
- Gas tongue
- Gas transmission system
- Gas trunkline
- Gas-water contact (GWC)
- Gasholder
- Geological exploration risk
- Geological formation
- Geological prospecting
- Gravity exploration
- Greenhouse gases
- Helium
- Horizon
- Hydraulic fracturing
- Hydrocarbons
- Hydrogen index (pH)
- Hydrogenation
- Injection capacity of a well
- Kharasaveyskoye field
- Kovykta field
- Lateral coning
- Lift string
- Line pipe operation center
- Liquefied natural gas
- Lithology
- Logging
- Long-distance gas transmission
- Looping
- Low-temperature separation of gas
- Magnetic prospecting
- Main gas generation phase (MGGP)
- Main oil generation phase (MOGP)
- Medvezhye field
- Membrane technology
- Methane
- Methanol
- Mobile CNG station
- Mofettes
- Natural gas dew point
- Natural gas production
- Natural gas purification
- Natural gas vehicles (NGV)
- Natural pressure gas lift operation
- Natural reservoir
- Octane rating
- Odorant
- Offshore fields exploration
- Oil and gas formation
- Oil and gas reservoir
- Oil rim
- Oil-water contact (OWC)
- Oil/gas blowout
- Orenburg helium refinery
- Packer
- Pad distribution
- Passivization
- Phase
- Phase transitions of hydrocarbon gases
- Pipelaying vessel
- Pipeline accessories (valves and fittings)
- Pipeline route
- Pipeline watercourse
- Pipelines ballasting
- Plugging material (backfill)
- Preventer (blow-out equipment, BOE)
- Producing (pay) horizon
- Prospective resources
- Raw gas
- Reamer
- Regasification
- Repression funnel
- Reserves
- Reserves-to-Production Ratio (RPR)
- Reservoir depression
- Reservoir energy
- Reservoir gas of condensate accumulations
- Reservoir impermeable seal
- Reservoir temperature
- Retrograde phenomena
- Riser string
- Rock gas saturation
- Satellite soils monitoring
- Secondary (enhanced) recovery methods
- Seismic exploration
- Skin-effect
- Sorption
- Spot trading
- Stabilized condensate
- Standard conditions
- Stray currents
- Subsurface use licensing
- Swivel
- Synthesis gas
- Take-or-pay
- Tubing string
- Unified Gas Supply System
- Unstabilized condensate
- Viscosity
- Well
- Well cementing
- Well deviation
- Well recompletion
- Well stock
- Well suspension
- Wellhead pressure
- Western Siberia oil and gas bearing province
- Working gas
- Zapolyarnoye field
Plunger piston has a shape of long cylinder with either rigid telescoping seal or resilient seal and with axial channel, which may be shut-off by a valve.
When plunger piston is run-in-hole inside tubing, its valve is open and the seal is folded to reduce the resistance. After the piston hits the lower bumper, its valve closes, sealing elements unfold and the pressure of inflowing gas pushed the piston up to the wellhead transporting the fluid column above it.
After entering the wellhead control equipment (lubricator) the piston hits the upper bumper, the valve opens, and the piston is retained until the phase of wellbore fluids blow-out is finished. This freely moving piston inside the tubing shuts off the gas slug from the fluid column, thus preventing gas break-through into the fluid and fluid run-off along the tubing walls. This improves the production efficiency by lowering the working medium (gas, air) flow rate, and in some cases just reservoir energy is enough to transport fluid to the surface (when the well operates in periodical flowing mode).