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Practical Well Planning and Drilling Manual
A Area
Ac Constant of proportionality
ADEPT Adaptive Electromagnetic Propagation
AFE Authority for Expenditure
AIT Array Induction Imager Tool
AMS Auxiliary Measurements Service
AS Array Sonic
ASI Array Seismic Imager
ASP Anticipated Surface Pressure
assy Assembly
AV Annular Velocity
bar Unit of barometric pressure.
bbl(s) Barrel(s)
bent Bentonite
BHA Bottom hole assembly
BHF Braden head flange
BOP Blowout preventer
BP Bridge plug
bpm Barrels per minute
BSW Bottom sediment and water
BTC Buttress threaded and coupled
btm Bottom
Butt Buttress (threads)
Ca Calcium
CBT Cement Bond Tool
CBU Circulate bottoms up
CCM Circulate & condition mud
CDN Compensated Density Neutron Tool
CDR Compensated Dual Resistivity Tool
CEC Cation Exchange Capacity
CERT Correlated Electromagnetic Retrieval Tool
CET Cement Evaluation Tool
cent Centralizer
chk Choke
circ Circulate, circulation
Cl Chloride
CNL Compensated Neutron Log
co Change out
COOH Chain out of hole
cp Centipoise
cmt Cement

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