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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