Glossary
Wellhead Pumper Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential wellhead pumper terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key wellhead pumper vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in wellhead pumper training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- BS&W
- Basic sediment and water.
- Choke
- A valve that controls flow.
- Flowline
- Pipe from well to battery.
- Gauging
- Measuring tank levels.
- Heater treater
- Separates oil and water with heat.
- Lease
- A producing property.
- Polished rod
- The rod at the top of a well.
- Produced water
- Water that comes out with oil.
- Pump-off controller
- Stops pumping when a well is pumped off.
- Pumpjack
- A pumping unit that lifts oil.
- Run ticket
- A record of oil sold.
- SCADA
- Remote monitoring.
- Separator
- Separates oil, gas and water.
- SPCC
- Spill prevention plan.
- Stuffing box
- Seals the polished rod.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Wellhead Pumper practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Wellhead Pumper training.
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