Drilling Industry Glossary
waiting on cement (WOC)
water
water activity
water phase salinity
water table
weight indicator
weight on bit (WOB)
well logging
well planning
wellbore
wellpath map
whip stock
wild cat
workover
worm or weavel
Wellpath Map
The wellpath is mapped by connecting the directional survey stations with circular arcs. The length of each arc is the measured distance from one station to the next. The directions measured at adjacent directional stations determine the directions of the endpoints of each circular arc (a bit of analytic geometry here).
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