Chapter II

GSI ( Geophysical Service Inc.) was founded by John Clarence

Karcher and Eugene McDermott in 1930 for the purpose of using refraction
and reflection seismology to explore for petroleum deposits.

Standard Oil Company is a global chemical and oil company that was founded in
1889 around a refinery located in Whiting, Indiana, United States.

Silverman Oilfield Services Ltd is a company provides oilfield and fluid hauling
services across the Western provinces, Canada.

ARP (Atlas Resource Partners) is a master limited partnership active in oil and gas
production in the Barnett Shale in Texas, The USA.

Teledrift : measurement-while-drilling (MWD) tool is a self-contained, positive-pulse,

MWD tool used for stabilizing vertical drilling.

Mud sirenFlexo drill system: is a mud system developed by IFP(The French

Institute of Petroleum ).

Teleco Oilfield Services Inc.: the Meriden-based maker of equipment used

primarily in offshore drilling, the company was bought by Baker Hughes.

B J Hughes (the Byron Jackson Company Services Company) is a leading worldwide

provider of pressure pumping and oilfield services for the petroleum industry, the company
was bought by Baker Hughes.

Mobil is a major American oil company which merged with Exxon in 1999 to form a
parent company called ExxonMobil.

IFP: The French Institute of Petroleum (in French: Institut français du pétrole, IFP) is
a public research organization in France founded in 1944[1] as Institute of Oil, Fuels
and Lubricants.

ELF: Elf Aquitaine was a French oil company which merged with TotalFina to
form TotalFina Elf. The new company changed its name to Total in 2003.

OPEC: The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, is

an intergovernmental organization of 14 nations, founded in 1960 in Baghdad

Anadrill International: One of Schlumberger Companies.

The RGD tool consists of a positive mud pulse transmitter, directional sensor
package, and gamma ray detector and Resistivity sensors ,introduced by Teleco.

EXlOG: Excellence Logging is a specialist oilfield services company.

SNPA: in FrenchSociété Nationale des Pétroles d'Aquitaine Former

French petroleum and natural resources group that was acquired by Totalfina in
2000 to create TotalFinaElf, renamed Total SA in 2003.

NPTD: Pulsed Neutron-Therman Decay .

Ensco is an offshore drilling contractor headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is

the second-largest offshore drilling and well drilling company in the world.

NPT: Non-productive time, Time that is not spent on the use of tool.

Triple-Combo MWD Package :Enables High-Dogleg Sidetrack, Saves Time

and low cost.

Newpark Drilling Fluids is an international company which provides drilling fluid

systems, products and technical services across the globe.

NaviTrak : Directional and gamma MWD service , From its Applications

Unconventional shale plays -Onshore development drilling
Factory drilling