Definitions for "Casinghead"
n: a heavy, flanged steel fitting connected to the first string of casing. It provides a housing for slips and packing assemblies, allows suspension of intermediate and production strings of casing, and supplies the means for the annulus to be sealed off. Also called a casing spool.
The portion of the casing that protrudes above the surface and to which control valves and flow pipes are attached.
a flanged steel fitting connected to the first string of casing. It allows suspension of intermediate and production strings of casing and is the means for sealing off the annulus.
Unprocessed natural gas produced from a reservoir containing oil; natural gas produced with oil from oil wells. Sometimes called "Braden- head gas," "oil well gas," "wet gas," or "solution gas."