Clear reference guides, basin notes, equipment breakdowns, drilling explainers and field calculators. Built as a serious oilfield knowledge platform, not a generic blog or listing site.
Oilfields.work is organized around the way people learn the industry: fundamentals first, then drilling, completion, fracturing, production, equipment, basins and terminology.
Browse the knowledge base by topic. Each hub links down to in-depth guides.
Rigs, the rotary process, bits, mud, directional & horizontal drilling.
Explore →What fracking is, how it works, proppant, frac fluid, stages.
Explore →Casing, cementing, perforating and making a well produce.
Explore →Pumpjacks, ESP, gas lift, recovery, decline curves.
Explore →Source rock, reservoirs, traps, porosity & permeability.
Explore →Permian, Bakken, Eagle Ford, Marcellus and the world's giants.
Explore →BOPs, Christmas trees, pumpjacks, separators and rig anatomy.
Explore →The full value chain from wellhead to refinery.
Explore →bbl, API gravity, mud weight, psi, mcf, BOE — install offline.
Explore →Clean, simple, single-purpose. Add the toolbox to your home screen.
From spud to Christmas tree to BOE — the glossary defines the words you hear on location, in plain English, with links to the full guides.
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