- 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
Main mechanisms of heat redistribution in the Earth crust:
- conductive heat transfer defined by the thermal conductivity of rocks;
- convective transfer associated with fluids moving inside rock fissures.
Temperature environment in subsoil is characterized by the following parameters: geothermal gradient (reservoir temperature increment per 1 meter of depth) and geothermal step (inverse geothermal gradient). Along with temperatures normal for the given reservoir areas with abnormal reservoir temperatures may exist. Reservoir temperature in accumulations depends on their occurrence depth and geothermal specifics of the giver Earth crust area. Observed temperatures vary from near 0°С in gas-hydrate accumulations to hundreds °С in deep-lying formations. Reservoir temperature is measured by mercury thermometers, thermistor temperature gauges and other types of thermometers. Drilling and associated operations disturb natural distribution of reservoir temperature. The rate of recovery of natural thermal area in the well depends on the well diameter, on the duration of well flushing-out, temperature differential between the flush fluid and the surrounding rock and on their thermal-physical properties. Normally it takes from 8 to13 days to recover natural reservoir temperature in the well.
Reservoir temperature measurements are especially important in petroleum and geological engineering. Reservoir temperature changes in oil and gas accumulations lead to changes of volumes of gas, fluids and container rock. Temperature increase causes decrease of oil and water viscosity and increase of gas viscosity. Temperature increase in closed reservoir causes formation pressure increase. Reservoir temperature is also associated with changes of phase relation in accumulations, of gas solubility in oil and water and salts solubility in water. Reservoir temperature decrease complicates hydrocarbons production and leads to losses of valuable products (condensate, viscous oil and paraffin), that is why oil fields (especially waxy oil) are developed with increase of reservoir pressure.