Comprehensive Glossary of Oil & Gas Terms: Definitions A-Z

Oil & Gas Terms

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Oil & Gas Terms - A

Abandoned Well

Acre-Feet

Aggregate Pay Laws

Allowable, Oil Allowable, Gas Allowable

Oil & Gas Terms - B

Basic Sediment and Water, BS&W

BCF

Blowout Preventor, BP

BOPD

Bottom Hole Pressure, BHP

Brine

British Thermal Unit, BTU

Oil & Gas Terms - C

Christmas Tree, Wellhead

CO2

Commercial Well (aka Producing Well)

Condensate, Lease Condensate

Contiguous Tract

Cost Depletion

Crude Oil

Cubic Foot of Gas, Standard Cubic Foot of Gas

Oil & Gas Terms - D

Division Order Title Opinion

Downstream

Drill Bit

Drill String

Drilling Mud, Drilling Fluid

Oil & Gas Terms - E

Executive Rights to Minerals

Oil & Gas Terms - F

First Right of Refusal

Flush Production

Forced Pooling or Force Pooled

Formation

Fracking, Hydraulic Fracturing, Fracture, Fracing, Frac Job

Oil & Gas Terms - G

Oil & Gas Terms - H

Held By Production, HBP

Henry Hub

Horizontal Drilling

Horizontal Pugh Clause

Hydraulic Fracturing, Fracture, Fracing, Fracking, Frac Job

Oil & Gas Terms - I

Initial Production, IP

Injection Well

Intangible Drilling Costs, IDC

Interest

Intestate Death

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Oil & Gas Terms - J

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Oil & Gas Terms - K

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Oil & Gas Terms - L

Land Brokerage Company

Land Department

Landman, Petroleum Landman

Lease

Lease Automatic Custody Transfer Unit, LACT Unit

Oil & Gas Terms - M

Oil & Gas Terms - N

Natural Gas Liquids, NGL

Net Revenue Interest, NRI

Non-Participating Royalty Interest

Non-Producing Mineral Owner

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Oil & Gas Terms - O

Oil & Gas Mineral Lease

Overriding Royalty Interest, ORRI

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Oil & Gas Terms - P

P&A or Plug & Abandon

Paid Up Lease

Participating Royalty Interest

Pounds Per Square Inch, PSI

Producing Mineral Interests

Producing Mineral Owner

Progressing or Progressive Cavity Pump

Proration Unit

Proven Reserves

Pugh Clause

Pumper, Lease Operator, Gauger

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Oil & Gas Terms - Q

Qualified Intermediary

Oil & Gas Terms - R

Reservoir Engineering

Oil & Gas Terms - S

Salt Water Disposal Well, SWD

Oil & Gas Terms - T

Three (3-D) Seismic, Three Dimensional Seismic

Three Phase Separator

Oil & Gas Terms - U

Unitization, Unitization Agreement, Unit Agreement

Oil & Gas Terms - V

Oil & Gas Terms - W

Waterflood, Waterflooding

Oil & Gas Terms - X

There are currently no definitions for oil & gas terms that start with a X.

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Oil & Gas Terms - Y

There are currently no definitions for oil & gas terms that start with a Y.

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Oil & Gas Terms - Z

There are currently no definitions for oil & gas terms that start with a Z.

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