БУРОВАЯ УСТАНОВКА – A DRILLING RIG

Теоретическаячасть –Theoretical part

Данный лексический материал предназначен для того, чтобы

студенты овладели специальными терминами, словосочетаниями и могли употреблять их в речи при обсуждении специализированных текстов.

Грамматика – повторение употребления предлогов в предложениях. Задания–Activities

Задание 1. Выучите следующие слова и словосочетания:

Activity 1. Learn the words by heart:

a structure housing equipment конструкция, на которой размещено

оборудование

term термин

to refer to относиться, относить

oil well нефтяная скважина

metal frame tower металлический каркас вышки

layman не специалист, несведущий человек

upon which the rig sits на которой находится бур. установка

floating vessel плавающее судно

semi-submersible полупогруженное

vast обширный, огромный

bentonite бентонитовый

whilst во время, когда

hoist подъемный механизм

force перезагружать, нагнетать

catering общественное питание

infrequent редкий

crew rotation смена бригады

safety risks риски безопасности

hazard опасность

entrained входящий, поступающий

are required by требуются по

Задание 2. Прочитайте и переведите текст:

Activity 2. Read and translate the text:

A drilling rig

A drilling rig or an oil rig is a structure housing equipment used to drill and extract oil or natural gas from underground reservoirs.

The term can refer to a land-based rig or a marine-based structure commonly called an “off-shore rig”. The term correctly refers to the equipment that drills the oil well including the rig derrick (which looks like a metal frame tower). Laymen also refer to the structure upon which the rig sits and from which the wells produce as a 'rig', but this is not correct. The correct name for the structure in an marine environment is the platform.

A structure upon which wells produce is a production platform. A floating vessel upon which a drilling rig sits is a floating rig or semi-submersible rig because the whole purpose of the structure is for drilling.

Drilling rigs can be vast, capable of drilling through thousands of meters of the Earth's crust. Large "mud pumps" are used to circulate drilling mud (liquid bentonite clay with high barium content) through the drill bit and the casing, for cooling and removing the "cutting" whilst a well is drilled. The hoists in the rig can lift thousands of tons of pipe and other equipment can force acid or sand into reservoirs to facilitate extraction of the oil. There is a permanent living accommodation and catering for crews which may be greater than a hundred people in number on the rig. Marine rigs may operate many hundreds of miles off-shore with infrequent crew rotation.

The drilling and production of oil and gas have some safety risks like a hazard to the environment from the ignition of the entrained gas causing dangerous fires and also some risks of oil leakage polluting water, land and groundwater. For these reasons, special safety systems and highly-trained personnel are required by law in all countries with significant oil production.

Задание 3. Ответьте на следующие вопросы:

Activity 3. Answer the following questions:

1. What is a drilling rig used for?

1. ………………………………………………………………………….

2. What types of drilling rigs do you know?

2. ………………………………………………………………………….

3. What is the casing for?

3. ………………………………………………………………………….

4. How do the workers live on a floating oil rig?

4. ………………………………………………………………………….

5. Why is it necessary to use special safety systems?

5. …………………………………………………………………………

Задание 4. Найдите эквиваленты следующих выражений в тексте и выпишите в правую колонку:

Activity 4. Find the equivalents of the following expressions in the text and write them down into right column:

1. конструкция, на которой ……………………………………….

размещается оборудование ……………………………………….

2. термин правильно относится к ……………………………………….

3. способные пробурить тысячи метров …………………………………

4.чтобы облегчить добычу нефти ………………………………………..

5. постоянное размещение для жилья ………………………………….

6. поступивший газ, вызывающий –

Задание 5. Выберите и вставьте правильный предлог в предложения:

Activity 5. Choose and put the correct preposition into the sentences:

(between, from, in, from, in, near, on, of, with, of )

1. My office is ………. the oil rig platform.

2. I can’t collect you …… the site because I have guests at home.

3. My university is ….. the north-west side …. the town.

4. Our construction site is about 20 minutes drive ……. the bus station.

5. There are many places ….. interest …. our city.

6. The new office building is …… two oil wells.

7. My uncle bought a new house …..the countryside when he retired.

8. Football is becoming more popular …… young people in Asia.

Задание 6. Заполните бланк регистрации. Помните, что все пишется заглавными печатными буквами без наклона:

Activity 6. Fill a registration form:

Практическое занятие 6 (12) Unit 6