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INTRODUCTORY EXERCISES
1. Match the words with their definitions:
2. Say whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the wrong ones: 1) The operating company has an employee on the drill site to supervise its interests. 2) The company representative and the rig superintendent usually work separately. 3) The job of an area drilling superintendent is to manage and coordinate the activities of the many rigs the drilling company has working in a particular area or region. 4) The contractor requires more personnel on land than offshore. 5) Roustabouts are general workers on the rig whose duties include unloading supplies from boats to the rig. 6) Crew members place the equipment on the seafloor and operate it from the rig on the water’s surface. 7) Operating companies, drilling contractors, and service and supply companies hire geologists, accountants, bookkeepers, sales personnel, and trainers.
3. Say what you have learned from the text using the outline: · A company representative · An area drilling superintendent · Offshore personnel · Office personnel
2. Make up a plan of the text and report on it in brief. 3. ROLE PLAY Imagine that you work in a foreign company, which requires specialists of different profile. Your task is to say what vacancies there are at the personnel department and what duties must perform all workers.
PRACTICING IN TRANSLATION
1. Translate the following word combinations as fast as possible. operating company, drilling contractor, буровое долото, to supervise the company’s interests, area drilling superintendent, to fill out the proposal, Международная Ассоциация Буровых Подрядчиков, растворители, turnkey job, огнетушитель, service and supply companies, поставщик провизии, a casing crew, первая медицинская помощь, to keep the rig stable, обсадная труба, subsea equipment supervisors, roustabouts, expendable items
2. Give written translation of the text. Rig personnel Personnel on a drilling rig vary greatly depending on the size of the rig, type of rig, and the type of well being drilled. A list of the most common rig personnel is as follows: Company man, Derrickhand, Directional driller, Driller, Geologist, Rig Medic, Mud engineer, Mudlogger, Measurement while drilling operator, OIM, Roughneck, Roustabout, Tool Pusher, Motor Man. A Company Man is a representative of an oil-drilling company. Other terms that may be used are Company Representative, Drilling Engineer, or Rigsite Leader. Oil-drilling companies typically rent or lease rigs from another company that owns the rig and the majority of the personnel on the drilling rig. The company man is the on-site representative of the drilling company and is directly in charge of most operations, but not a supervisor in the traditional sense. In matters where safety may be questioned the oil rig workers, who may not be employed by the same company as the Company Man, may refuse to perform an action requested by the Company Man. The Derrickhand or Derrickman position varies greatly from one drilling rig to another. He almost always reports directly to the driller. The name derrickman comes from the position that he normally occupies, which is at the top of the derrick. From this position he guides the stands of drillpipe (typically 90 ft long) into the fingers at the top of the derick while tripping out of the hole. When tripping into the hole he will pull the pipe out of the fingers and guide it into the top drive or the block. Traditionally the derrickman also works closely with the mud engineer, when not tripping pipe since he is not needed in the derrick. In this capacity it is his responsibility to monitor the mud weight, add sacks of chemicals (25-100 lb each) to the mud to maintain properties, and monitor the mud level in the mud pits to aid in the well control. A driller is the supervisor of the rig crew. The driller is responsible for the efficient operation of the rigsite as well as the safety of the crew and typically has many years of rigsite experience. Most drillers have worked their way up from other rigsite jobs. While the driller must know how to perform each of the jobs on the rig, his or her role is to supervise the work and control the major rig systems. The driller operates the pumps, rotary table via the drillers console – a control room of gauges, control levers, rheostats, and other pneumatic, hydraulic and electronic instrumentation. Reference: http://articles.gourt.com/en/oil%20rig
2. Two-side translation: translate the following interview given by the manager of the operating company. - Очевидно, что независимо от того, располагается ли буровая установка на берегу или на шельфе, требуется персонал, который будет её обслуживать. Расскажите, пожалуйста, о компаниях, которые вовлечены в процесс бурения и, в частности, о соглашениях между буровой компанией и компанией-оператором. - The operator usually sends a proposal to several drilling contractors. The proposal describes the drilling project and requests a bid. The contractor then fills out the proposal, signs it, and sends it back to the operator. If the operating company accepts the bid, it becomes a contract between the operator and the drilling company. - Чем занимается Международная Ассоциация Буровых Подрядчиков? - The International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) is an organization whose membership is made up of drilling contractors, oil companies, and service and supply companies with an interest in drilling. IADC provides many services to its members. Its mission is “to promote a commitment to safety, to preservation of the environment, and to advances in drilling technology”. - Для чего компания-оператор заключает договор с компаниями по обслуживанию и снабжению? - The operating company owns the well and usually hires a drilling contractor to drill it. But to successfully drill a well, the operator and the contractor need equipment, supplies, and services that neither company normally keeps on hand. Service and supply companies provide the required tools and services to expedite the drilling of the well. Supply companies market safety equipment, rig components, tools, computers, paint, grease, rags, and solvents. Supply companies sell expendable and nonexpendable equipment and material to the operator and the drilling contractor. - Что относится к расходуемым и не расходуемым материалам? - Expendable items include drill bits, fuel, lubricants, and drilling mud – items that are used up or worn out as the well is drilled. Nonexpendable items include drill pipe, fire extinguishers, and equipment that may eventually wear out and have to be replaced but normally last a long time. - Когда компания-оператор прибегает к помощи компании, которая занимается геофизическим исследованием скважины? - When a well reaches a formation of interest, the operator hires a well logging company. A logging crew runs sophisticated instruments into the hole. These instruments sense and record formation properties. Computers in the field generate special graphs, called “well logs”, for the operator to examine. Well logs help the operating company determine whether the well will produce oil or gas. - Расскажите о компаниях, занимающихся установкой обсадных труб в скважины. - A casing crew runs special pipe, casing, into the well to line, or case it after the rig drills a portion of the hole. Casing protects formations from contamination and stabilizes the well. After the crew runs the casing, another service company – a cementing company – cements the casing in the well. Cement bonds the casing to the hole.
3. Give sight-translation of the text.
The International Association of Drilling Contractors Since 1940, the International Association of Drilling Contractors (IADC) has exclusively Membership is open to any company involved in oil and gas exploration, drilling or production, well servicing, oilfield manufacturing or other rig-site services. IADC’s contract-drilling members own most of the world’s land and offshore drilling units and drill the vast majority of the wells that produce the planet’s oil and gas. IADC’s membership also includes oil-and-gas producers, and manufacturers and suppliers of oilfield equipment and services. Founded in 1940, IADC’s mission is to improve industry health, safety and environmental practices; advance drilling and completion technology; and champion responsible standards, practices, legislation and regulations that provide for safe, efficient and environmentally sound drilling operations worldwide. Through conferences, training seminars, print and electronic publications, and a comprehensive network of technical publications, IADC continually fosters education and communication within the upstream petroleum industry. IADC holds Accredited Observer status at the International Maritime Organization and the International Seabed Federation, branches of the United Nations. The Association is a leader in developing standards for industry training, notably its Well Control Accreditation Program (WellCAP) and rig-floor orientation program, RIG PASS. IADC is headquartered in Houston and is one of the city’s largest trade and professional associations. IADC also has offices in Washington D.C., the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates, as well as chapters in the UK, Venezuela, Brazil, Australasia, South Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and across the United States.
[1] Baker R. (1996) A Primer of Oilwell Drilling: A Basic Text of Oil and Gas Drilling. – 5th ed. – Petroleum Extention Service, The University of Texas, Austin. – pp. 9-15.
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