Drilling Industry Glossary
shoe track (ST)
shut-in bottomhole pressure (SIBHP)
single slurry
sinusoidal buckling
SK
slips
slurry
slurry yield
snubbing
spacer
spaghetti
stand (of pipe)
surface casing
sustained casing pressure (SCP)
survey
sweeps
Stand (Of Pipe)
A “stand” of drillpipe consists of either three or four joints of pipe and is considered as a unit. The number of drillpipe elements in a joint depends on (1) the length of a joint of pipe and (2) the height of the derrick.
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