- •Unit 1. Leading Companies of Oil and Gas Industry
- •Chevron: Providing Energy for Human Progress
- •Preparing for an interview
- •Category 2. Questions about Education
- •Modal Expressions: Ability and Inability
- •Unit 2. Business Conduct and Ethics Code of an Engineer
- •Code of Business Policies of tnk-bp
- •Canons of Professional Conduct
- •Modal Expressions: Scale of Likelihood
- •Improbability:
- •Impossibility:
- •Unit 3. Delivering Innovative Technology
- •Delving Deeper: Unlocking Offshore Energy
- •Presentation as a Special Communicative Genre
- •1. Communicative act
- •2. Attention Curve
- •3. Mode of Delivery
- •Types of Public Speeches
- •Informative speeches
- •Persuasive speeches
- •Goodwill (ceremonial) speeches
- •The Structure of a Presentation
- •Introduction
- •Conclusion
- •Information Organisation Patterns
- •1. Field m Development History
- •2. Drilling in Extreme Northern Regions
- •3. Abiogenic Petroleum Origin
- •Modal Expressions: Obligation
- •Unit 4. Company Profile and Records
- •Language of Presentations: Style and Typical Constructions
- •1. Style: communication instead of performing
- •Most audiences prefer a relatively informal approach. Compare the two variants with different degree of formality. Which one do you prefer?
- •Predominance of passive voice
- •Long attributive groups
- •Typical constructions
- •1. Introducing the topic
- •2. Previewing your speech
- •4. Closing a point / Changing the subject
- •11. Concluding your speech
- •12. Distributing support documentation
- •13. Closing formalities
- •14*. Transitions in a group presentation (combination of one speaker’s summary and another speaker’s preview) – should provide natural and logical flow of ideas.
- •Effective Vocal Techniques
- •1. Articulation / Word Stress
- •2. Pausing
- •3. Sentence Stress
- •4. Intonation
- •Body Language
- •Powerpoint Presentation Building Tool
- •Illustrations
- •Prepare a ‘Cue-Card’ Outline
- •1. Signaling your readiness to answer the questions
- •2. Handling Interruptions
- •5. Offering help to clarify information
- •A) Agree to a request q: Could we see that slide again?
- •Evaluation form
- •Modal expressions with perfect infinitive
- •Unit 5. Communication at Work
- •Questionnaire: Are You a Model Employee?
- •1. Understanding Responsibilities
- •2. Meetings (I)
- •3. Meetings (II)
- •4. General Workplace Communication
- •5. Regulations
- •6. Purpose of Job
- •Play Well With Others: Develop Effective Work Relationships
- •Department / departmental meeting
- •Roles at the meeting: chairperson
- •Roles at the meeting: participant
- •Meetings: Politeness strategies
- •Present Tenses
- •Present Simple and Present Continuous
- •Present Perfect
- •Unit 6. Safety at the Working Place
- •The Role of hse Issues in Petroleum Technology
- •Development of Petroleum Technology
- •The Ways to Combat Pollution from Petroleum Industry
- •Information Accentuation Techniques
- •1. Emphasis
- •Intensification
- •Emphatic attitude
- •Stressing auxiliaries and negatives
- •2. Rhematization – main idea at the beginning
- •3. Rhetorical questions
- •4. Creating rapport
- •Question tags
- •Negative question forms
- •Past tenses
- •Past Simple and Past Continuous
- •Past Perfect
- •Unit 7. Geology
- •Bodies of rock
- •Types of rock
- •Geological processes
- •Geologic features
- •Miscellaneous
- •Geology Quiz – Rocks and Minerals
- •Geoscience: introduction
- •Petroleum geology
- •Active vs Passive Voice
- •Unit 8. Formation Evaluation
- •Investigation of Reservoir Rocks
- •Interrelationships between Formation Evaluation Methods.
- •Conditionals
- •Unit 9. Oilfield Exploration and Reserves
- •Oilfields and Reserves
- •Comparison of adjectives
- •Use Of Visual Aids
- •Key Points for Successful Presentation of Statistical Information
- •1. Graphs and Charts
- •Ex. 25. Match the following types of visuals to their functions.
- •Commenting On a Visual
- •Ex. 31. Study the following patterns. Cause, Effect and Purpose
- •Relative clauses
- •Unit 10. Reservoir Engineering
- •Miscellaneous
- •Reservoir engineering
- •Reading Units of Measure
- •Gerund and Infinitive
- •Unit 11. Drilling Engineering
- •Structures
- •Other equipment
- •Miscellaneous
- •The Basics of Drilling Technology
- •Various types of bit:
- •Subordinate clauses of result and purpose
- •A subordinating conjunction followed by a verb
- •Unit 12. Well Completion and Production Technology
- •Well treatment techniques
- •Reservoir treatment techniques
- •Well Completion and Treatment
- •Countable and uncountable nouns
- •Unit 13. Research and Development in Oil and Gas Industry
- •Technological Progress in Oil and Gas Industry
- •Adjectives and adverbs
- •Unit 14. Environmental Monitoring in Oil and Gas Industry
- •Types of environmental damage
- •Types of tanks
- •Protective methods and equipment
- •Miscellaneous
- •Oil Spill Prevention and Response
- •Cleanup and Recovery
- •Prepositions of place
- •Unit 15. Academic Writing and Scientific Research
- •Types of research
- •Research professionals
- •General terms
- •Writing a Research Paper
- •1. Why a Scientific Format?
- •2. The Sections of the Paper
- •3. Section Headings
- •Introduction
- •A) Title, Authors' Names, and Institutional Affiliations
- •Oil Mobility in Transition Zones
- •Ex. 12. Read the second part of the text and note down the most useful recommendations.
- •1. Abstract
- •Ex. 13. Read an abstract of a research paper and find the following elements in the text:
- •3. Materials and methods
- •4. Results
- •5. Discussion
- •6. Acknowledgments (include as needed)
- •7. Literature cited
- •8. Appendices
- •Language of Research Papers
- •Bibliography
Miscellaneous
annular space (annulus) |
затрубное (межтрубное) пространство |
The space between two concentric objects, such as between the wellbore and casing or between casing and tubing, where fluid can flow. |
cuttings |
буровой шлам |
Small pieces of rock that break away from the formation due to the action of the drilling bit. |
deviated drilling |
наклонно-направленное бурение |
The intentional deviation of a wellbore from the path it would naturally take. |
kick |
выброс |
An undesired flow of reservoir fluids into the wellbore during drilling operations. |
perforation |
перфорация |
The communication tunnel created through the casing into the reservoir formation, through which oil or gas is produced. The most common method uses perforating guns equipped with explosive charges. |
pit |
амбар |
A large tank that holds drilling fluid and other fluids on the rig. |
to kill |
глушить (скважину) |
To stop a well from flowing. Kill procedures typically involve removing reservoir fluids out of the wellbore or pumping high density mud into the wellbore, or both. |
Ex. 2. Answer the questions and check how well you have understood the definitions.
What is produced due to the action of the drill bit?
What lubricates the drill bit?
Where is drilling fluid stored?
What kind of pipe is used to produce reservoir fuids?
Is kick a favourable or unfavourable phenomenon?
What shape do derricks have?
What is the synonym for slurry?
Can fluid flow between casing and tubing?
Which of the pipes has the largest diameter?
What is the name of the machine that drills wells?
What kind of pipes does the string include?
What helps to prevent blowouts?
In what manner does the drill bit work?
What creates tunnels through casing into the rock formation?
Ex. 3. Match the Russian terms with their English equivalents.
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Ex. 4. Reconstruct the definitions, choosing correct phrases from each column and appropriate linking means.
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- tank - section of pipe - pipe - large-diameter pipe - combination of connected pipes - valve at the top of the well - tool - machine - set of valves connected to the top of the well - structure - component of a drill string |
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- holds drilling fluids and other fluids on the rig. - to produce reservoir fluids. - to support the crown blocks and the drill string of a drilling rig. - to direct and control the flow of formation fluids from the well. - may be closed if the drilling crew loses control of formation fluids. - usually referring to drillpipe, casing or tubing. - for drilling, protecting and isolating the formation, or producing reservoir fluids to the surface. - provides weight on bit for drilling. - to drill a wellbore. - to crush or cut rock. - lowered into an openhole and cemented in place. |
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Ex. 5. Reconstruct the definitions, filling in the blanks with necessary words.
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Cuttings |
Small pieces of __________ that break away from the __________ due to the action of the __________. |
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Blowout preventor |
A large __________ at the top of a well that may be closed if the __________ loses control of __________. |
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Kick |
An __________ flow of reservoir __________ into the wellbore during __________ operations. |
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Christmas tree |
The set of __________ connected to the top of a well to direct and control the flow of formation __________ from the well. |
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Drilling rig |
The machine used to drill a __________. In __________ operations, it includes virtually everything except __________. |
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Annular space
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The space between two __________ objects, such as between a wellbore and __________, or between casing and __________, where __________ can flow. |
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Drill bit
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The tool used to __________ or cut rock. It is on the bottom of the __________ and works by scraping or __________ the rock, or both, usually as part of a __________ motion. |
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Derrick |
The structure used to support the crownblocks and the drill string of a __________. They are usually __________ in shape. |
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Casing |
__________ pipe lowered into an openhole and __________ in place. |
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Perforation |
The __________ tunnel created through the casing into the __________ formation, through which oil or gas is __________. The most common method uses __________ equipped with __________ charges. |
Reading and Vocabulary
Ex. 6. Read the text, referring to the definition of terms at the beginning of the Unit, if necessary.